Perspectives

Dear Heloise: My 17-year-old cat, Elliot, has to be given steroids daily for the rest of his life, and pictured here is the face that I get after giving it to him. He sure has an attitude. I hope to see it in your column in The Reader in Duluth, Minnesota. Thank you. -- Lorrie Carlson, via email Readers, to see Elliot and our other Pet Pals, go to Heloise. com and click on “Pet of the Week.”

The Texas House on Friday defeated a proposed voucher plan, also leaving in doubt a comprehensive public school funding plan that became tied to it, The Dallas Morning News reported. A coalition of rural Republicans and Democrats joined together to take education savings accounts out of the bill by an 84-63 margin. t’s unclear whether proposed record funding increases for schools and teacher raises will survive this fourth special session. Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made vouchers a priority. Versions of their priority have passed the Senate but continue to be stymied in the House. This special session ends the first week of December.

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