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The grocery industry is dealing with another challenge as COVID, employee shortage, and inflation hamper efforts. A Fort Worth man charged with the capital murder of his wife and infant son will spend the rest of his life in jail after a jury found him guilty of the crime. Craig Vandewege, 40, was found guilty, Thursday, and given an automatic sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
At least Nixon in '68 talked about an "exit strategy," albeit a secret one that took four years or so to unfold. History may judge that the United States' solo vigilante act was the right call for a world with new rules of pre-emptive engagement. Or maybe in four decades, someone will resurrect a Reaganism to characterize U. Don't get me wrong, the Sixties had some good points. Find a decade with as much variety in popular music. But there are a lot of things not to mourn: only one televised college football game per Saturday, Tiny Tim, an alleged dessert called Whip 'n Chill.
There's no denying that the opening stanza of our current decade and century — the assassination of Americans' security — will foster JFK-like fascination but little sentimentality 40 years from now.
Here's hoping we can fall back on some hard-earned Sixties wisdom to salvage a decade that is a little less chaotic. Intending no disrespect on this Memorial Day , it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what our military men and women expended their last full measure of devotion to preserve.
The whole world watched a transplanted Swedish golfer audaciously step onto the men's tee box in Fort Worth, Texas. Five riverboats full of slot machines weren't enough to slake the public thirst for gambling, so Harrah's added more at Louisiana Downs.
And The Matrix reloaded movie theaters to reintroduce the notion that mankind has been lulled into a false reality so that someone — or some thing — else can actually run the world. In the movie it's machines. Was it a top-down document that protected the machine of bureaucracy and noninstructional staff at the expense of the classroom?
The fact is that next year's budget eliminates more than teaching positions and almost 80 teacher aides. Were all the stones kicked over to see if a dollar could be squeezed here and there with one less central office secretary or one less support staffer? Only budget insiders will know for sure. Five months after a multiballot marathon to elect officers, the budget debate indicates that the School Board remains a house divided more than the vote might indicate.
In January, the differences seemed healthy. Newbies staking out ground amid the veterans, philosophies emerging. In May, the budget showdown had a decidedly edgy feel. Differences carried a sense of disgruntlement, perhaps disdain. In January, Byrd changed a vote to side with Powell in the spirit of compromise.
Last week, she took him to task, complaining that his suggestion to postpone the budget vote until June to get recommendations from principals on how best to make cuts at their schools in fact held principals hostage. As the clock ticked down on this school year, the former principal said, principals needed to be advising their staffs of changes for next year.
Only principals can answer whether they would have preferred another - or in some cases their first - meaningful opportunity to make suggestions on where they could trim personnel or just to get the dang thing settled so they could do what they had to do. Interestingly, once the board approved the budget - rejecting Powell's amended recommendation to delay the vote only one week - principals still found themselves left in the lurch until Tuesday so the legal staff could review reduction-in-force specifics.
That's the day after Memorial Day. But it won't be until two weeks before Labor Day - when Ruben and Annika and Neo have been replaced as national obsessions - that teachers and students will find some of their classes are a bit larger.
And some "over-age" students may think about dropping out because there are fewer remediation slots to help them catch up with their middle school peers.
And the new superintendent could well be getting an earful from principals grappling with educating children with fewer resources. Uninhibited by traffic in my Paid4, the mind can wander about, ponder life's meaning, admire nature without hurry or hustle on this road without access.
Bossier City Hall is not as enthusiastic about my thoroughfare of serenity, having spent millions on a road that is underutilized because it lacks ramps leading to the Shreveport-Barksdale Bridge. That was supposed to have changed with the renovation of the twin Red River spans. And it will. But not until or so.
That's the latest guestimate for concurrent completion of both the bridge facelift and Teague-connecting ramps. The ramps are huge to the city, perhaps its number one construction priority with the state. As Councilman David Jones says, the parkway "doesn't become totally utilized until you can get off it at Shreveport-Barksdale. The work was tied to bridge refurbishing, beginning with the recently completed eastbound span. But then the state — primarily citing a scarcity of state and federal dollars — pushed back the westbound bridge and ramps a year.
The only consolation the city has is that it held firm on refusing to pay the money upfront, instead waiting until the bids are let. That was supposed to have been October of this year.
It has since been re-scheduled for July At least one skeptical city official predicts that date being bumped back all during fiscal year There is one fun little wrinkle. Well, legislators and state highway officials will tell you it's not unusual to have projects pushed back because of tight construction budgets.
And it's not hard to build a scenario where a perceived greater need pops up on the radar of the budget folks in Baton Rouge: Let's delay the Bossier City project. Over time, Robyn said that Craig would mention his cousin Terry Rouse and how he killed and disposed of him in a swamp. At first, Robyn thought he was joking and brushed it off. But as it turned out, Craig was serious about it. Terry was a year-old who vanished without a trace in May He was last seen during the early hours of May 11, and his car was discovered at the entrance of a swamp park in Ware County, Georgia.
Craig and Terry were cousins, good friends, and worked together in the family business. Vandewege is accused of the murder. Wednesday, Vandewege appeared in court and pleaded not guilty. His family members stood behind him in the wooden pews. During the opening statement, state prosecutors said Vandewege called on Dec. However, prosecutors said they have plenty of state evidence to prove he lied. At least eight witnesses took the stand Wednesday.
Both dispatchers said his calm tone during the emergency call struck them, which they said is uncommon given the circumstances of the situation. The defense team objected the statement and said it was speculation. Prosecutors played audio from the calls and police body camera footage from the scene.
They also showed images of the scene taken by police detectives.
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