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Dallas County tax offices are closed to the public until further notice. Instead, workers are processing paperwork online or by the phone. County Leaders blame spiking COVID cases among employees and an effort to cut down indoor crowds.

In the late 18th century, Philip Councilman, his wife and many children ventured up the Susquehanna River to what is now the Town of Nanticoke.

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The Ames story goes back to 1774, when Captain John Ames began making America’s first shovels. We’ve been building America ever since, through wartime and pe...

The great American novelist and essayist had support from the black community for her portrayal of a black woman in her most recent novel.

Image by jta (JTA) — On March 13, nearly a year to the day after Temple Beth El of Charlotte, North Carolina, closed due to COVID-19, Rabbi Dusty Klass gathered the congregation’s 900 households for a shared — albeit remote — Jewish experience. Unable to gather her community for worship, Klass and her colleagues, including operations manager Nathalie Friedlander, invented something new: Challah Day. Volunteers baked over 900 challahs, and others delivered them to the doorstep of every h...

What everyone else gives away for free, Texas government might soon charge you for What everyone else gives away for free, Texas government might soon charge you for A CEO of global property tax company based in Dallas pushes hard for a new state law, and people wonder why. Brint Ryan, chairman and CEO of Ryan, a global property tax consultant company headquartered in Dallas, is politically-connected and unafraid to use his connections to promote laws in his industry.(David Woo - Staff Photogra...

During the course of COVID quarantine, something remarkable happened: I tasted satisfaction, even happiness. No doubt St. Augustine was right that our souls are restless until they rest in God. But when all my travel was canceled, my office was moved to my basement, and my world shrank to the size of our modest ranch home and its sunny front yard, my own restless soul experienced a season of contentment. I began to look forward to a daily breakfast of oatmeal and banana, and I found pleasure in...

Dear Dr. Mohler, Although we haven’t met yet, you and I are new neighbors to one another in Louisville. I serve as the pastor of Highland Baptist Church, just down the road from Southern Seminary. I was called as pastor of Highland last year, and I joined a team of remarkable pastors on our staff, many of whom happen to be women. In fact, we like to point out that there are actually high-heel marks in the wooden floor of our chancel from all the women who have preached in Highland’s pulpit ...

March 16, 2021 With you, for you: In Gilead, a dying pastor writes about the joy that parents experience watching their children grow up   -  ISTOCK.COM With you, for you: In Gilead, a dying pastor writes about the joy that parents experience watching their children grow up   -  ISTOCK.COM× A mother struggles with fears of mortality and the meaning of existence through a year of death and disease When I announced to my family that I intended to marry a Hindu, my aunt came up with an unusu...