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Weekly News Summary

Week ending Friday, 07 June 2024

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." 

Thomas Paine​, Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution 

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11 June 2024 Council Meeting

Agenda Items: speed humps on Crown Road; maintenance on city right-of-ways on Crown and Ranch House Roads; expansion of driveway approaches 2022 Street Projects; Speed Hump Installation Policy; annexing 232 acres on E. Bankhead Hi. and FM 1187 and 10.98 acres of E.

Exports support much of the US economy, and Texas is leading all states by a huge margin. For more than two decades, Texas has been the top US export state.

Summary: In addition,Texas has enjoyed a 41% gain in exports in just five years - even with a pandemic in between. The largest category of exports by a significant margin is oil and gas followed by petroleum and coal products, and chemicals. Then...

D-Day, Operation Overlord, 06 June 1944

"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you... let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."

Watch a 3D-printed home being built, just 23 miles east of Willow Park.

Summary: OK, this has nothing to do with the current Willow Park, but what happens in Fort Worth does not stay in Fort Worth. Watch a 3D-printed home being built, just 23 miles east of Willow Park, at 100 W. Bolt St. Fort Worth.

Williams Weekly: Monday, 03 June 2024

Newsletter from Roger Williams, the US House Rep. for Texas District 25, which includes Willow Park. This week's Williams Weekly includes the following: Reaffirming Congressional Support for the Second Amendment; Fighting Biden's Endless Regulations; Standing With President Trump.

We'd like to go back to the simplicity of the smaller neighborhood but that is not how this city is growing, and with that growth we need steet repairs.

Summary: Willow Park Citizen Opinion Blog on the need for Willow Park street repairs to maintain pace with Willow Park growth. "I have lived in Willow Park a few years now and have come to notice that the road repair is non existent except for the main roads."

Willow Park Civics News Summary, Friday, 31 May 2024

Summary: A compendium of Willow Park Civics weekly news summaries, emailed to WPC Blog subscribers. The week in a glance; the year in a list. ""The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

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