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.
Latest Update: Friday, 07 April 2023
Archive of Willow Park Civics Weekly News Summary
“We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!” Pope John Paul II, Angelus, Adelaide, Australia Sunday, 30 November 1986
Schools, Students, and Education, 88th TX Legislative Session
11 April 2023 Council Meeting
Texas leads U.S. with fastest economic expansion
New City Hall: Update - Debt
06 May 2023 Election for Willow Park: When, How, Why
Williams Weekly: 03 April 2023
WP Emergency Warning Systems
03 April 2023 Special Council Meeting
WPC News Summary, 31 March 2023
“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.” John Steinbeck, American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner
WP Emergency Warning Systems
03 April 2023 Special Council Meeting
TX State Gambling, 88th TX Legislative Session
Current Willow Park Financial Audit
Cruz: US Senator Cruz Newsletter, 24 March 2023
Texas 'will be short thousands of skilled workers by 2030
City Buying a New City Hall This Thursday?
30 March 2023 Special Council Meeting
Sr. Discount for WP Water Bill. Tell all your senior neighbors!
WPC News Summary, 24 March 2023
"It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue." Samuel Adams, American statesman, a US Founding Father
Bills That Affect You, 88th TX Legislative Session
Paxton Shut Down Texas Robocallers that Made Billions of Illegal Calls
Cruz: US Senator Cruz Newsletter, 10 March 2023
Make a difference in your water supply -- and your water bill.
Parker County Days in 88th TX Legislative Session, 28 & 29 March
Reception honoring Police Chief Ellis
Williams Weekly: 10 March 2023
Communicate with your elected officials; 88th TX Legislative Session
Willow Park will have a May 2023 election ballot, with a decision that will effect property taxes.
Palo Pinto/Parker water authority partnership -- or maybe not
WPC News Summary, 17 March 2023
Only on What's Happening, Willow Park
Planets and Moon Set to Align to Form ‘Planet Parade’ Late March —Here’s What You Need to Know.
Updated Blogs and Issues
14 March 2023 Council Meeting
"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin, US Founding Father and America Polymath
"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me." Primary Catholic Patron Saint of Ireland, St Patrick’s Feast, 17 March
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 17 March 2023
WP Council names interim police chief
Willow Park represented in the US House of Representatives
ONCOR Electricity, Willow Park storm damage and prevention
Goodbye Willow Park Fire and Rescue
Willow Park election cancelled -- again.
14 March 2023 Council Meeting
WPC News Summary, 10 March 2023
Updated Blogs and Issues
Willow Park Civics Blog > New Willow Park Police Station
Willow Park Civics Blog > Standard Services Restaurant is taking shape and WOW.
Willow Park Civics Blog > 14 March 2023 Council Meeting
Willow Park Civics Blog > Election Results: Voters approve ESD1 annexing fire department. Props A&B
Willow Park Civics > Issues > Fire Department ESD1
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry, 12 March 1775, American attorney, politician, orator, first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 10 March 2023
14 March 2023 Council Meeting
Property Tax, 88th TX Legislative Session
One-of-a-kind Universal Theme Park is coming to Frisco.
Street Improvement Projects, Update 06 March 2023
Vehicle Safety Recalls Week, 06 March
Rogers: Mothers and Fathers of Texas Education
Finance: Willow Park Sales Tax
Williams Weekly: 03 March 2023
Willow Park is developing: Updates
Remember the Alamo. And remember freedom is not free.
WPC News Summary, 03 March 2023
Only on What's Happening, Willow Park
Gardening For Monarch Butterflies
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” George Washington, Founding Father and 1st US President
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 03 March 2023
New Willow Park Police Station
Texas Rangers’ Bicentennial, Sens. Cruz, Cornyn introduce bill.
Willow Park Police Chief resigns.
Williams Weekly: 24 February 2023
WP Emergency Warning Systems
28 February 2023 Council Meeting
WPC News Summary, 24 February 2023
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.” Ayn Rand, Russian-born American writer and philosopher, author of Atlas Shrugged
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 24 February 2023
28 February 2023 Council Meeting
Election Integrity, 88th TX Legislative Session
New (Interim) City Hall: Update Cost
Gov. Abbott's Legislative Priorities for the 88th Legislative Session
Our Texas State Legislators receive committee assignments, 88th Legislative Session
Standard Services Restaurant is taking shape and WOW.
Last week’s ice storm stirred the taxpayer-funded renewable energy debate.
Cruz: US Senator Cruz Newsletter, 17 February 2023
Williams: High Inflation Continues to Hurt Working Americans
Country Hollow, a new Willow Park housing development
21 February 2023 P&Z Comm. Meeting
WPC News Summary, 17 February 2023
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." John Adams, Second US President and Founding Father
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 17 February 2023
21 February 2022 P&Z Comm. Meeting
Go east, young man: The Ranch Development East of Willow Park
Texas Republicans tapped to chair four committees in U.S. House - including WP's Rep.
Q&A Redux, Happy Trails to You
Rogers: The Texans’ House
Lt. Gov. Patrick's official list of TX Senate legislative priorities, 88th TX Legislative Session
Williams: Republicans Mark an End to the COVID-19 Pandemic
WP's PC Brewing Co. is moving - but not far.
Where Did All the Press-Friendly Texas Politicians Go?
14 February 2023 Council Meeting
WPC News Summary 2023, 10 February 2023
"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." James Madison, Fourth US President and Founding Father
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 10 February 2023
13 February 2023 Board of Adjustments Meeting
Read the sky, SKYWARN Spotter Training
Williams: Williams' Weekly, 06 February 2023
TX Senator Springer drew the short straw in re-election
Aledo ISD: your property taxes and ISD tax rates
Cruz: US Senator Cruz Newsletter, 04 February 2023
Happy Trails to you, Willow Park
WPC News Summary 2023, 03 February 2023
"You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy." Ronald Reagan, 40th US President
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 03 February 2023
07 February 2023 Parks Board Meeting
Willow Bark is back.
"Invasion" on the Border, Parker Co. included
Backyard chickens now part of TX 88th Legislative Session
Budget and Surplus, 88th TX Legislative Session
Falling Across Texas, Remembering the Columbia Shuttle
This week's weather and the electrical grid
Williams: Williams' Weekly, 30 January 2023
New Medical Campus in Willow Park
Gov. Abbott reveals why Covid19 emergency declarations are still intact
Williams: President Biden Drains U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
WPC News Summary 2023, 27 January 2023
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless." Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War
88th TX Legislature News Summary, 27 January 2023
WP Emergency Warning Systems
Bills that affect you, 88th TX Legislative Session
Schools, Students, and Education, 88th TX Legislative Session
Water for Willow Park
TX lawmakers highlight state's fragile water systems, including WP's Tx House Rep D60 Glenn Rogers
Willow Park Baptist Church opens new campus!
Willow Park North Exciting Updates in Maps
Ted Cruz To Reintroduce Bill Reinstating Military Members Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine
24 Jan. 2023 Council Meeting
WPC News Summary 2023 for 20 January 2023
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson, Third President and Founding Father of the U.S.
88th TX Legislature News Summary
Your Phone Bill, Texas Connectivity Fund, 88th TX Legislative Session
Williams: Williams' Weekly
Texas now home to 30 million people / Wilks Development Map
TX Senator Cornyn visits border
TX State Gambling, 88th TX Legislative Session
Texas gas prices continue to rise at faster rate than overall U.S. prices
Electricity and ERCOT
Rogers: Who is keeping score?
New (Interim) City Hall
WPC News Summary 2023 Week of Friday 13 January 2023
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." Gideon Tucker, 1826 - 1899, American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
88th TX Legislature News Summary
Aledo ISD Growth Committee Data Dig
New (Interim) City Hall - Updated
Minority Party House Committee Chairs, 88th TX Legislative Session
Rogers: Defending our local schools
Glamper Camper Pampers your RV, Boat, and Classic Car
Glen Rose Nuclear Power Plant to renew License
Williams: Sworn in to WP's TX-25
WPC News Summary 2023 Week of Friday 06 January 2023
“A nation can only be free, happy, and great in proportion to the virtue and intelligence of the people." Stephen F. Austin, "Father of Texas,” 4th Secretary of State of Texas
Texas laws that took effect 01 January 2023
Automated McDonald's in White Settlement, First in US
"Invasion" on the Border, Parker Co. included
New (Interim) City Hall
Corporate subsidies come to Aledo ISD in Chapter 313 Project Redeemer
Corporate Welfare/Subsidies, 88th TX Legislative Session
General Legislative Info. 88th TX Legislative Session
WPC News Summary 2022
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