Nursing students evaluate their patient in the School of Nursing simulation lab. photo credit: Jason Connel, ETAMU Marketing and Communications

Shanna in a Dress is your quirky best friend who refuses to wear pants. She says what everyone has felt but no one else will say and you'll get an uncensored journey of clever humor and heartbreak, extreme candor, and a hefty side of entertainment at her shows. This witty wordsmith is known for taking you on an emotional roller coaster, sometimes within the same song.

What does conservation look like when a community decides to roll up its sleeves and get involved? On September 26, Mossy Oak Properties Cross Timbers Land & Home is partnering with Friends of Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge for National Day of Conservation at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.

To mark National Preparedness Month this September, the City of McKinney’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has distributed more than 1,700 free emergency preparedness bags now available at two community locations across McKinney. Bags are available on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last. OEM is also partnering with the John & Judy Gay Library to host a free Disaster Preparedness workshop on Tuesday, Sept. 8, where participants can build their own emergency kit. The class is open to the public, and registration is required.

Members of the 52nd Engineers with a locomotive at Périgueux, France, during World War I. Courtesy Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. photo found by ChatGBT

1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. Gerald Ford, the president of the United States, issued a presidential proclamation—Proclamation 4311—on September 8, 1974, granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, his predecessor, for any crimes that he might have committed against the United States as president. In particular, the pardon covered Nixon's actions during the Watergate scandal. In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford, who had succeeded to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation, explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country and that the Nixon family's situation was "a tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must." After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court case where the dictum stated that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that its acceptance carries a confession of guilt.