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Our honoree for Woman of Distinction  for the month of April is Beth Van Duyne. She is a member of TFRW -affiliate Irving Republican Women and is a Trump appointee to the U.S. Housing ad Urban Development Administration, having regional jurisdiction over five states, including Texas. Beth Van Duyne was the mayor of Irving but left that position to accept this appointment from the President. Ms Van Duyne had been in talks since November with President Donald Trump’s administration and other Republicans...

Viva Fiesta Viva San Antonio Fiesta is in full swing in San Antonio, which means your President may have ‘limited access’ to her emails the next ten days. Fiesta started over 100 years ago, in 1891, with a flower parade affectionately known today as the Battle of Flowers Parade. The parade honors the heroes of the battle of the Alamo and San Jacinto and the celebration of the victory at San Jacinto. Today the parade is the only parade in the country...

Patricia “Pat” Hardy, a lifelong educator, was elected to serve District 11 of the State Board of Education in November 2002 and re-elected in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2014. During her tenure on the board, Hardy, a Republican, has served on all three of the board’s committees. She currently serves on the board’s Committee on School Finance/Permanent School Fund, which oversees the Permanent School Fund, the nation’s largest education endowment. The committee also oversees some funding and auditing policies. During her tenure...

When Mitt Romney lost in 2012 I specifically recall the Republican National Committee putting together a team to determine why we lost; again. One overwhelming piece of survey data concluded that Republicans were, perceptually, not inclusive enough. Following the study the plea went out to all Republican organizations to take the lead on outreach and grow the big tent. The Texas Federation of Republican Women followed orders. I have a Masters in Sociology, in a nutshell sociology is the study of...

Last Tuesday, I was working on my monthly president’s message when an alert came over my phone about a possible live shooter situation in Parkland, Florida. I read the alert and prayed that it was not another shooting and that the authorities had the person in custody before any lives were lost. I continued editing my piece which was focused on faith, family, country then politics. I wanted to tell you all that we need to live our lives in...

I was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1932.  Our mother left my sister and me when we were very young, and our dad traveled with his work, so we moved to Roebling, New Jersey in 1934 to live with our Aunt Dell.  Our dad remarried when I was thirteen, so we moved to live with him and his new wife on a small farm. At eighteen, I enrolled at the University of Kentucky and met Jim, the guy I would marry.  We had...