If you’re gonna tell people what you think, it helps to really know. I don’t always.

After the Texas Legislature spent much of 2023 in session, a bevy of new laws go into effect on New Year’s Day, though some have been delayedbylawsuitschallenging their constitutionality. The Austin American-Statesman reported on SB 17, a new law that institutes a banonprogramsandpolicies “designed or implemented in reference to race, color, or ethnicity” at Texas public universities or colleges — commonly known as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.

ThePostISDtrusteesmet on Tuesday, Dec. 12 in the Post High School library.

I’m gonna recycle a few things this new year. I’ll reuse my car, now withover210,000milesonit.

You won’t have to come into work every day. That’s what my editor said when I took the job.

Herewearethefirstpaperof2024.Thisis24yearsafterY2K, andtheworldwassupposedtoturnbacktothedarkages.For those of you who don’t remember, there was a large group of people who believed all the computers were onlyprogrammeduntilmidnightonDec.31, 1999. Anything with a computer program would stop working. This would include electricity and heating. Without these two important parts of our lives, we would be back in the 1800s. We would cook on wood stoves and heat with wood (or in our part of the country, cow patties). People bought generators powered with gasoline to keep their home refrigerators running and cooking equipment working, pluslightsinourhouses.Withoutelectricity, there would be no television. There were not manycellphonesatthattimesosocialmedia was also not around yet.

Can you believe it’s Christmas and only a few days until 2024? I feel sure several readers are wondering where the time went. Of course, if you are seven years old and waiting for Santa, the time can’t pass fast enough.

By the time you read this, the publisher and editor of these newspapers will be bound for the East Coast to spend the holidays with family and friends. This year we are taking a week’s vacation between Christmas and New Year’s and not publishing a 52nd edition of our newspapers—a break for advertisers’ budgets, as well as for support staff who would have to gather news and lay out pages on Christmas Day.

Most of you have your Christmas tree and the rest of your house decorated. When did you start decorating? When I was a kid at my parent’s home, we put our real Christmas tree up about a week to ten days before Christmas.

HANABA MUNN WELCH 2023 drones Word association test: Drone. Did you think of a honeybee, specifically one of those lazy bees with nothing to do but hang out with the queen bee? Probably not.