In the News
Baseball legend Andre Dawson was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, helping to get an early start on marking the 75th anniversary of the integration of Major League Baseball.
He joined lawmakers at a news conference to talk about legislation that would create a commemorative coin in the shape of a baseball home plate depicting baseball pioneers Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby.
A U.S. Congressional delegation from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi has introduced legislation that would expand the congressionally designated Interstate 14 corridor across the three states.
Congressmen who represent the Fort Hood area are applauding the Army's decision to establish a new command unit in Austin.
The Army Futures Command, to be led by a four-star general, will spearhead the Army's modernization of new equipment.
The Army announced on Friday that Austin will serve as unit's headquarters, with about 500 people.
AUSTIN, TX — Austin has been selected as the home for the U.S. Army's new Futures Command, officials confirmed.
Pedernales Electric Cooperative officials had a proverbial "Chamber of Commerce day" Wednesday, June 27, as they celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting for the new Marble Falls district office on US 281.
Patti Zinsmeyer, executive director of Marble Falls/Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce, welcomed a large crowd to the facility to see up close what she called "a grand addition to Marble Falls and the Hill Country."
More than 1,000 people came out to celebrate early at the Star Group-Veterans Helping Veterans' 10th annual Independence Day Picnic Saturday at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.
The event, which was free and open to the public, is held to honor veterans and their families for their sacrifices. Since it is held in the weeks before the Fourth of July, it allows veterans to spend the holiday with their families.
U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter to Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army, making the case for Austin to be chosen as the site of the new Army Futures Command Headquarters (ARFCOMHQ). The letter was also signed by Representatives Roger Williams (TX-25), John Carter (TX-31), Michael McCaul (TX-10), Lamar Smith (TX-21), Bill Flores (TX-17), Kevin Brady (TX-08), Will Hurd (TX-23), Pete Sessions (TX-32), John Ratcliffe (TX-04), Beto O'Rourke (TX-16), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Brian Babin (TX-36), and Joaquin Castro (TX-20).
The game of baseball was integrated in 1947, first by Jackie Robinson in the National League, and then by Larry Doby in the American League a few months later. They are pioneers, not just of baseball but of the civil rights movement. And in just a few years, they could be on a U.S. coin.
WASHINGTON —
The baseball coach with a shock of gray hair and Atlanta Braves' cap calls his players around after an early morning practice for one last pep talk: hit hard, field those balls and, most of all, win.
They all laugh, join in a team hand-stack, cheer and soon go off to their day jobs — as members of the U.S. Congress.
WASHINGTON — In the year since House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others were shot at a congressional baseball practice, mass shootings have occurred at a Texas church, a Las Vegas music festival and high schools in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas.
Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a doctor who helped save Scalise's life last June, has watched those attacks unfold with the acute sensitivity of a mass shooting survivor. Each shooting is jarring, says Wenstrup — he calls the Parkland shooting in particular sickening — but his views on gun control have not changed.