The growth plate

Renae Brumbaugh - Green - Coffee Talk   It’s that time again.   Time for sweat-soaked socks and stinky, standon- your-own gym shorts. Time for rolling down the car windows because you can’t breathe while locked in a small space with your malodorous mutant teenage boy.

The Fire This Time

Rich Lowry - Column -   In the past two weeks, the “war on police” has gone from a metaphor to a reality, with eight officers killed in targeted attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

Appellate court strikes down Texas voter ID law

Ed Sterling -Capital Highlights-   Texas’ voter photo identification law is racially discriminatory, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled July 20.

If a car leaves an intersection

Lynette Sowell -My front porch-   The vision of a future Business 190 was a sight to behold on Thursday at the city council workshop. The green space was beautiful and the areas for pedestrians would be a much-needed feature to make Business 190 safer and more walk-able than it is now.

Pokémon Go!

by Renae Brumbaugh  I now have a new job title to add to my resume. I am a Pokémon Trainer. My duties as trainer include searching for, capturing, and training various Pokémon, or Poke men as I like to call them. Though they’re not men . . .

Cowardice cripples Yankee raid on Galveston

by Bartee Hailie    On Jul. 25, 1861, three months after President Lincoln ordered a blockade of all southern ports, the United States Navy sent a ship to seal off Galveston Bay, and the frigate Santee relieved the original vessel of the lonely watch in mid-September.

Everyone’s a character

Lynette Sowell -My front porch-   The other day I received an email from Chip, my literary agent, and it contained an interesting but tall order: “Hey, I’ve got a publisher looking for an author who can write a Mitford-like series, and I thought of you, Lynette.

Texas baby is born with Zika-related microcephaly

Ed Sterling -Capital Highlights-   The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed a Zika virus infection in a baby recently born with microcephaly in Harris County.

Inked

Renae Brumbaugh Green -- Coffee Talk --   Superman and I bought a new printer today. Not because we needed a new printer . . . we already had two perfectly good printers. But we needed new ink.

1776 was Amexit

Rich Lowry -- Column --   Two hundred and forty years before Brexit, there was Amexit, also known as the American Revolution.