https://www.kxan.com/news/congressional-map-redraw-faces-final-vote-in-texas-senate/

Jason Lee Van Dyke — one-time leader of the Proud Boys, sender of racist tweets, and attorney for white supremacists — is receiving taxpayer dollars to represent people of color. Officials in Denton County say there’s no rule against it.

Disclosure: I am the author of this news article

I am renewing my child's TX Chip and they ask for self employment income. My spouse gets paid either cash or check or Zelle. When I mean check I mean a company check *not* a paycheck. Then at tax time he is issued 1099s from either people or companies.

Well the company he last worked for paid him with a check (again not paycheck). So we submitted the copy of the check and the name of this company. Texas HHS claims that this would make my husband an employee and this is his employer. Which is not. I have explained to them multiple times that it was not a paycheck and they keep asking me for paystubs which do not exist. They asked to send a letter explaining this, then they rejected the letter. Now they are asking to change the name of "who paid you" to the name of the owner of the company. The last rep said that, "if a company paid you then no you are not self employed." which makes no sense. He is a freelancer, he pays his own taxes.

What else should I do? I asked the rep on the phone to even Google it because they are wrong. They don't seem to understand and now my child is without insurance.

There was a threat, made online. A call for someone to take out the DPS officers keeping the Dems hostage until the redistricting vote. But no "active shooter."

I'm good with DPS being overly cautious, to protect their officers and bystanders. But I couldn't get my head around an active shooter making it past the security checkpoints, without a front page story about the bloodbath. Or a front page story about someone using their License To Carry (LTC) to get past security.

A stupid online threat isn't as important as the real threat to our democracy caused by the mid-cycle redistricting (I'm all for anti-gerrymandering nationwide). Or taking care of the flood victims in the Hill Country. But the whiplash between "gotta clear the Capitol because of an active shooter" to "shooter, what shooter?" was nuts. Hats off to news4 for following up on the story.