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Texas Bill Would Require Disclosure on ‘Occupational Insurance’ Policies April 28, 2021 Texas legislation requiring an occupational insurance policy to include a specified disclosure statement clarifying the policy is not a workers’ compensation policy has passed the state House of Representatives. House Bill 3769 by Rep. John Smithee, District 86, “amends the Insurance Code to require an occupational insurance policy to include a specified disclosure statement regarding the fact that the policy is not a workers’ compensation policy on the first p...

The package of legislation, championed by House Speaker Dade Phelan, is called "Smarter Justice, Safer Texas." Author: Michael McCardel, Jason Whitely Published: 9:30 AM CDT April 25, 2021 Updated: 9:30 AM CDT April 25, 2021 DALLAS — Texas state representatives are collectively moving a package of bills through the House in the final weeks of the legislative session aimed at reforming the criminal justice system. The goal, according to state Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, is to give some offenders a second chance while making sure the just...

AUSTIN — Most residents in rural Fayette County, about halfway between Austin and Houston, had no idea in 2016 their community was about to be on the receiving end of 40 million pounds of sewage sludge every year. That is until a legal notice published in the back pages of the local newspaper alerted residents of the application to use ranchland along the Colorado River as a dumping ground for the sludge trucked in from Texas' capital city. "After that notice appeared in our newspaper, there was a public outcry," recalled Regina Keilers, publisher of the Fayette County Record. "And within...

Letters to the Fenland Citizen editor: April 7, 2021  | Updated: 10:56, 09 April 2021 Much better ways to spend our money Upon reading the article about investment in Wisbech, I remembered the previous plan about a glass elevator just to look over Market Place and the other side of the road. Does the Mayor think that proposing such items as he has, including a water park in Wisbech – probably the place that suffers the most vandalism than any other area in Fenland – may improve his votes when next required to keep his very well paid position in the county? Also, doesn’t he c...

World unity, politics, Brexit, Captain Tom Moore and Covid are up for discussion this week.