
It is never, ever, too late to finish what you have started. #Classof2026
MaryJane Mudd
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@MJMudd
Special needs mom | Civic leader | Communicator | Dog lover | 30 Top Influential Women of Houston | Voting rights advocate 🌼 she/her/mom/nona

It is never, ever, too late to finish what you have started. #Classof2026

Our economy depends on the industry along the ship channel. But we also live downwind of it. It was great to join @EHCMA to talk crisis communications and building good relationships in peacetime. Thanks to @MJMudd for inviting me!

A proposed border wall in the Big Bend region would cost more than two billion dollars. It would intrude on the land of alfalfa farmers, cattle ranchers, river guides, and wealthy landowners. It would block the views along what National Geographic has called one of the most scenic drives in the country. It would impede the movement of wild animals and prevent livestock from accessing the Rio Grande, a crucial water source. It may disturb historic evidence of “the edge of the Puebloan world,” according to an archeologist who works in the region. It could disrupt tourism in a regional economy that is reliant on it. In places prone to flooding, a wall could make the problem worse. A wall would sever people from their neighbors in a region that’s long considered itself binational and interdependent. “It is unclear what problem a wall would solve,” Rachel Monroe writes. Big Bend is Border Patrol’s largest sector by area along the Southwest border, spanning more than 500 miles of the Rio Grande, but it has typically had the lowest number of illegal crossings. Since 2023, apprehensions have dropped further, to fewer than 200 per month this year. The wall is opposed by environmental groups, local sheriffs, and a far-right pro-gun YouTuber who is the region’s Republican nominee for Congress. And yet construction appears to be proceeding apace. Read the full story: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4Hipxq


Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the @PulitzerPrizes for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods. texasmonthly.com/press-room/sen…

Join us in wishing @SheriffEd_HCSO a very happy birthday! 🥳 Enjoy your special day to the fullest!💙🎈

Update on our cute little rescue kitty. He is doing well in his new home and has a loving family. They named him Tahoe. Why that, well our deputies rescued him inside the engine area of a Tahoe where he had climbed up into. Great job once again to our deputies



I’ve known since I was 12 that going out with boys wasn’t going to be my thing. Lesbian Visibility Week is about being seen, heard and respected, but mostly being true to yourself. I think my 12 year old self would be proud of the woman I am today and shocked to know that maybe, just maybe, she inspired another girl to be herself…







