Ellis County DA moving up the ladder of success
By Patty Hullett
For the Daily Light
Newly-elected Ellis County District Attorney Ann Montgomery wasn’t born and raised here in Waxahachie, but since her arrival in the spring of 2016 she’s made her mark on the city and has been heavily involved in the local government process ever since.
Montgomery was sworn into her new position on Jan. 1, 2021.
Born and raised near Cleburne in Johnson County, Montgomery is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene Montgomery. She says, “The last few years have been hard for me, as I lost my mother in 2018 and then my father passed away in 2019. Both lived in Cleburne at the time of their deaths.”
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Local leaders celebrated the official groundbreaking Saturday of a bridge that will link the pedestrian and bike trails on either side of U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas.
The bridge, which is scheduled to open in 2023, will go over the highway to join the Northaven Trail on the west of the highway with the White Rock Creek and Cottonwood trails on the east side, as well the SoPac Trail.
Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Parks build bridges because we link the public with open space and nature and beauty and building communities, and that s just metaphoric, Dallas Park and Recreation board President Calvert Collins-Bratton said. Now we are literally building a bridge from east to west, which as we all known in Dallas, it s very hard to get east to west.
Texas delegation requests close to $2 billion in funding request earmarks
Over half of the Texas delegation requested funds, including eight Republicans.
An American Airlines plane makes its way towards the runway before taking off at DFW International Airport on Monday, November 16, 2020.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
Earmarks are back.
The congressional practice of members essentially hand-picking projects was banned from Congress in the early 2000s after it became synonymous with “pork barrel” legislation. But it’s been given another chance under a new system.
Twenty-one members from Texas’ 35-member congressional delegation the 6th Congressional District in North Texas currently is open requested a total of close to $2 billion for fiscal 2022. Every Texas Democrat and eight Texas Republicans Reps. Dan Crenshaw of Houston, August Pfluger of San Angelo, Pete Sessions of Waco, Troy Nehls of Richmond, John Carter of Round Rock, Beth Van Duyne of Irving, Mich