Next week my son and I are on tap to go to an Aggie baseball game against Missouri.
Granted, I'm kind of down after the Ags lost to the burnt orange team.
But I'm excited to see a game with my son who lives in Kerrville.
We spend every fall weekend dissecting the A&M football games.
Baseball is a bit different in that regard.
I thought the maroon and white lads played decently, albeit losing to horns.
We're meeting up at College Station, while MaLinda will hook up with her daughter Ashlee who lives there.
She works at the A&M vet school in website administration.
It's a bigger title than that, but that's all I can remember in one fell swoop.
I kind of wish we were going to an Aggies Softball game.
They're doing quite well.
No matter, I'll be with someone who has been following the Aggies with me since he could barely walk.
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I hope people will vote this Saturday – if they haven't already in the early vote - whether you live in Bay City or in BCISD boundaries.
Same goes for Palacios elections Saturday.
The turnout in the Bay City early voting was quite low, which is disappointing.
Voting is crucial to our democracy at all levels.
Just think, about 90 million Americans didn't vote in 2024.
That's more than voted for either Trump or Harris.
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I'm getting quite concerned about efforts at the federal level and state level to make voting more difficult.
At the federal level, it's called the SAVE act and it's passed the House of Representatives.
There's a similar bill working its way at the Texas capital, also backed by the same flawed misinformation about voter fraud.
Backing for the measures that will require voters to produce birth certificates, visas or other proofs of citizenship is based on voter fraud.
That's a bogus scare since the voter fraud incidents are quite low.
Nevertheless it's real ground is fear.
Women and minorities will have a harder time producing proof of citizenship as the law is written.
The SAVE bill goes to the U.S. Senate where it will have a harder time getting passed.
But I've led myself down that path to disappointment too often to count.
One party in this country has made it a goal to make voting difficult.
Read up on this important and scary legislation.
