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I don’t know why it had never occurred to me before, but there are numerous bald eagles in the greater Houston area, if you are of a mind to try to spot one in the wild. The bald eagle has been synonymous with the U.S. since the dawn of the country more than 240 years ago.

Not sure how I feel about this, other than it’s another reminder of how old we all are. Yolanda Saldívar, the woman found guilty of killing the late Tejano icon Selena Quintanilla-Perez, has applied for parole for 2025. The New York Post reports that inmates have indicated there is a “bounty on her head,” prompting the move to file for parole. Saldívar, 64, was found guilty of the shooting death of Selena in 1995.

On Saturday I was perusing Bluesky, and posts like this were all over the place: US Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, hasn’t voted since July. The Dallas Express reports that it found her in a “memory care and assisted living home” after she was “found wandering lost and confused in her” old neighborhood. She is 81 and a sitting congresswoman. dallasexpress.com/tarrant/excl… [image or embed] — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM One might note a couple of things about this.

Awesome. For the first time since its founding in 2020, Athletes Unlimited (AU) is organizing a traditional team-based league meant to be “Major League Baseball for softball,” in the words of former Miami Marlins general manager Kim Ng, the senior advisor of the inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL). AU has annually hosted weeks-long competitions for pro women’s sports, including softball, basketball, volleyball and lacrosse, with no coaches or GMs involved.

It’s best if it’s accompanied by a sincere effort to change one’s actions. But it’s a start regardless. During much of its first year and a half of service, Houston ISD’s state-appointed school board has endured criticism for what some community members derided as a tight-lipped, opaque approach to district governance. Now, the board has made an unusual admission: Its critics may have been right.

He definitely faces challenges. I believe he’s up to them. Sean Teare, Harris County’s district attorney-elect, is a longtime prosecutor who has tried armed robberies, visited the scenes of countless homicides and convicted a man of mass murder. But those aren’t the cases that keep him up at night. “If you look at my early prosecutions, they were strong,” Teare told the Landing. “I was, and still am, a pretty talented trial lawyer and can utilize that for good and bad.

Yes, that’s a word. It’s also a good description of the state of our Attorney General. Three decades following its inception, the [Texas Ethics C]ommission is toothless. Compliance of Texas’ ethics laws is largely voluntary. That’s because the agency relies on the Texas attorney general to enforce payment of fines for violations. And under Ken Paxton, who himself owes $11,000 in ethics fines, that has rarely happened.

At least someone is moving forward with a big transit project. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, whose 28th district stretches from Laredo to South and East San Antonio, has secured $110 million in federal funding for VIA’s first rapid transit route. The money comes from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s fiscal 2025 appropriations bill, according to details released by Cuellar, a Democrat indicted in May on federal corruption charges.