Perspectives

Jeff McLemore, a feisty freshman congressman from Texas who used a colon to abbreviate his middle name, butted heads with Woodrow Wilson on Feb. 17, 1916, over the president’s about-face toward the European war.

The Texas Education Agency’s annual report was released last week. It indicates per-student funding in the 2021-2022 school year averaged $14,928 per student, up 42% since 2011. However, state funding has only risen slightly in the past decade, while local funding has increased substantially.

Dear Heloise: My wife poached eggs for breakfast the other day. After scraping as much of the egg skin that was willing to leave the stainless- steel pan, I filled it with soapy water to soak overnight. The next morning, I scraped it out with the steel flipper and plastic scouring pad until it looked clean. I rinsed it and set it upside down in the dry rack. Once it was dry, I still saw and felt patches of scorched-on egg in the pan. Further scouring had little effect on this.