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Pardon the college sports reference, but after 26 years in various roles (reporter, White House correspondent, columnist, office nuisance) and in various places (Mongolia, Uruguay, Afghanistan, Cleveland) for this fine newspaper, I am entering the transfer portal. Like most college athletes who enter the transfer portal (which means they’re looking for a new place to play), I’m grateful to my soon-to-be-former home and look forward to whatever’s next, which is unknown. The marketplace will decide whether this is retirement. Why am I leaving? Let’s call it voluntary with an asterisk. I’ve had a great situation here at the paper, left free to write however I wanted about whatever I wanted. That’s far more than any journalist should expect. I know that. ....
Opponents have expressed concerns based on the mass shooting from the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay hotel in October 2017 that killed 60 and wounded 400. ....
And high school sports. The legislative emotion factor on that last one amped up in each chamber when lawmakers on either side of the issue talked about the potential impact on kids. Kids like theirs. As I told you earlier this month, state Rep. James Frank, who’s been pushing this for eight years, won House approval for his House Bill 547, which would allow school districts to let home-schooled kids participate in the broad variety of UIL activities, which include athletic, academic and arts competition. The rules would be simple, yet controversial. Home-schooled kids could participate only via the public school they would attend if they attended school. And because the no-pass, no-play provision that governs public school students’ participation doesn’t work with home-schoolers, those kids would have to perform satisfactorily on standardized tests. ....
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