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B There — The next Bingo night at Legacy Point is Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to join in the fun with fall-themed prizes and snacks.
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Save The Date — The annual Community-Wide Thanksgiving service this year will be held on Sunday, November 22nd at the Sixth Street Church of Christ. The service will start at 6:00 p.m. and Jeff Procter will deliver the message. See you there!
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Bills, Bills, Bills — Texas lawmakers filed more than 1,000 bills in just over four hours Monday as pre-filing opened for the 2027 legislative session, less than a week after voters handed Democrats the governor’s office and the Texas House. Early Democratic bills would repeal education savings accounts that help families pay private school tuition, expand Medicaid, and create a redistricting commission. Republicans filed proposals to ban crypto kiosks and keep certain minors off social media. The session opens January 12 and runs through May 31, with bills due by March 12. Republicans kept the Senate, but Democrat Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin will preside over it. The Texas Flyover
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On The Border — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration can resume building border barriers and roads in Texas’ Big Bend region, lifting a federal judge’s order that froze construction while a lawsuit plays out. In an unsigned order, the justices said U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone likely lacked authority to block the work, since the 1996 border law permits only constitutional challenges. Federal attorneys argued a gap in the wall would funnel crossings and drug trafficking into Big Bend, where agents apprehended more than 89,000 people from 2021 to 2025. The halt was costing nearly $500,000 a day, a border official said. The Texas Flyover
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Most Valuable Players — A new projection of the world economy in 2040 has the United States still on top, with output near $53 trillion and China about $5 trillion behind, down from a gap of roughly $10.7 trillion today. The forecast, from London’s Centre for Economics and Business Research, puts world GDP at $227 trillion by 2040, with the U.S., China, and India generating 51% of it. India climbs from fourth to third. Germany slips to fourth, the United Kingdom passes Japan for fifth, and Indonesia cracks the top 10. The Flyover
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Fly Me To The Moon — NASA said Saturday that SpaceX, Blue Origin, and six other companies can compete for up to $10 billion in cargo deliveries to the moon as the agency works toward a permanent base at the lunar south pole by 2032. The agency also awarded Blue Origin $94 million, with an additional $140 million option, to land a nuclear-powered rover built from spare Mars rover parts, which will launch in late 2028 to drill for water ice at the pole. “When our astronauts return to the Moon, they will arrive with the first elements of the Moon Base already waiting for them on the surface,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement. The $10 billion is a ceiling for future orders, not money already spent. NASA is also hiring astronauts for the base, at a $164,395 salary, with applications open through December 3. The Flyover
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Going Down With The Ship — The SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built, is set to be scuttled Thursday off Florida’s Gulf Coast, where she will become the world’s largest artificial reef, 57 years after her last voyage. Five city blocks long and 12 stories high, she set a transatlantic speed record on her 1952 maiden voyage that still stands, carried four presidents, and was built so the military could convert her into a troopship in under 24 hours. “It may not seem that way now, but back then she was the space shuttle of her age,” said Susan Gibbs, whose grandfather designed her. The jet age retired her in 1969, and she spent nearly 30 years rusting at a Philadelphia pier before Okaloosa County bought her for $1 million. Fans drove in from as far as Detroit for a farewell cruise around her hull. Her funnels will anchor a planned museum. The rest goes down at 10 a.m. Thursday about 22 nautical miles off Destin-Fort Walton Beach, where she will trade spiders and sunbeams for divers and fish. The Flyover
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Veterans Recognized — Sol Pittman (Marines), Joe Bob Mann (Navy), Gary Johnson (Air Force), Anita Lafuente (Navy), Joe Lafuente (Navy). Not in photo was Jan Moser (Navy).
