Summary: This week's updates include the following: child care for school choice, House Public Education Committee Chair, public education funding formula, transgender college athlete ban, teachers pension ESG divestment, denying bail for violent or sexual offenses, water supply project for rural and small cities, budget briefing.

Summary: This month's Planning and Zoning Meeting includes the following: zoning change for Standard Services Restaurant; prelim plat for Bankhead Commons Addition; prelim plat for Willow Park Water Reclamation Area (Wastewater Treatment Plant); final plat for Country Hollow residential housing [adjacent to Hunters Glen].

Summary: With the interest and concern in east Parker County development, now is a good time to remind Willow Park residents of the development of six ranches in-between Willow Park and Fort Worth - Walsh Ranch, Morningstar Ranch, Veale Ranch, and The Seven Ranches Master Plan, which includes the division of the Dean, Boswell, and Beggs Ranches into seven development areas.

Summary: Small businesses in Willow Park now have access to significant power in the US House as US House Rep. for D25 Roger Williams became the chair of the US House Small Business Committee. If you have a small business, even a home base business, establish communications with Rep.

Summary: The original blog "Happy Trails to you, Willow Park" hosted on WHWP, generated quite a few good questions about the Willow Park Master Trail Plan - about financing, use, and other Willow Park infrastructure. WPC has gleaned answers.

Summary: "Did you know that our legislature only meets every other year, for less than five months, to enact legislative solutions for the ninth largest economy in the world?... When Reconstruction ceased, Texans never forgot what a one-party government could do with unlimited power.

Summary: The TX Lt. Governor has power over the finances, security, and education of you and your family -- some say more than the TX Governor -- and sometimes it feels like more than individual TX citizens. The TX Lt.

Summary: "Republicans are unified in our commitment to move past the COVID-19 pandemic and end the emergency powers that have been abused to attack Americans' personal freedoms. The Pandemic is Over Act and The Freedom for Health Care Workers Act." Update from Roger Williams, the US House Rep.

Summary: Parker County Brewing Company, a mainstay of The Shops at Willow Park, is planning to move into its own building, on the same campus as its current location. With larger facilities and parking, live music, and back porch views of the creek and trails, PCBC is moving up in Willow Park, but not out.

Summary: "State leaders used to invite coverage of their activity. Now the Legislature is making reporting more difficult than ever." / Willow Park Civics is providing a blog of articles and research on specific legislative topics, during the 88th Texas Legislative Session.

Summary: Agenda items include the following: 1st Quarter Financial Report; 2022 Police Racial Profiling Reports; infrastructure project updates (water, wastewater, streets, drainage); new city hall costs and funding; TX AG opioid settlement; committee for new police station; wastewater effluent line project.

Summary: A compendium of Willow Park Civics weekly news summaries, emailed to WPC Blog subscribers. Latest Update: Friday, 10 February 2023 Archive of Willow Park Civics Weekly News Summary Week of Friday, 10 February 2023 in .pdf and in .html "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

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