Ted Nugent has blasted President Joe Biden as "the worst human possible to represent the United States Of America." The outspoken conservative rock.
At least 160 Confederate symbols were removed from public spaces across the United States in 2020, according to the the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, has removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from the Richmond Statehouse and is trying to take down others seen as offensive by an increasing numbers of Americans, including those whose ancestors were enslaved.
Texas has largely declined to participate in this nationwide reckoning with the symbols of the Old South. Instead, local officials are doubling down on their Confederate monuments.
Republican State Sen. Brandon Creighton, who represents the city of Conroe, near Houston, says he will file a bill this legislative session to protect historical monuments from efforts to remove them.
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Alamo citizen panel begins work to rescue renovation plan even as legislator seeks to block historical revisionism
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Alamo Citizen Advisory Committee members met Monday night to start work on getting the Alamo renovation project back on track.Staff file photoShow MoreShow Less
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Alamo Citizen Advisory Committee members gather to vote on the proposed Alamo plan in City Council chambers in this 2018 photo. The committee, which drafted a vision and guiding principles for the Alamo project in 2014 and approved key concepts of the endeavor in 2018, has been called back into service to help get it back on track.Billy Calzada /Staff file photoShow MoreShow Less
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