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Editor’s note: The columns referenced in this letter ran in the July 20 and February 2, 2022, issues of the Bulletin on the Opinion Page.
Read moreToday it finally boiled over. I have been taking the same size 32 gallon garbage can to the dump in Lakehills for the last 24 years. I have watched the price for one can ,rise to 3 dollars over this time. I had no objections.
Read moreWelcome to July 2022…. Where we have runaway inflation, sky-high property taxes, through the roof fuel prices, a looming recession, and we are being ridiculed by the rest of the world. Just when you think it can’t get any worse -- remember who sits in the White House.
Read moreI sometimes wonder if one of the outcomes of this period of our nation’s history will be the emergence of additional political parties: at least one, but perhaps even more, once we get started and see how much things improve. It’s clear to me that neither of the two political parties currently in existence provides a “home” for me, and they may not for you either if you give it some thought.
Read moreRegarding the letter last week accusing me of using “Goebbels” methods to tell a lie over and over until the public takes it as truth....Let me suggest the writer of that missive hold up a mirror and see who is telling the “big lie” over and over again. That big lie is that Donald Trump won the election. He did not. In the blizzard of verbosity in that attack letter, there is little truth. The Committee Hearings are providing evidence of what took place on January 6th, and what led up to the violence. The Hearings are steeped in law. Persons who break that law by lying under oath will and should be persecuted. We are a nation and a people of laws and civility. No amount of false charges made with no factual;background can undermine that. I might add that contrary to the suggestion in that letter, almost all of the witnesses giving testimony are REPUBLICANS. ...most high in the Trump administration. I. stand by everything I wrote, and repeated, in my column. There is only one truth and readers need to think through which of the writers is telling that truth. Our democracy depends on it.
Read moreImagine that you’ve been feeling a bit off for the past few months. So, you decide to make an appointment with the doctor just to cover your bases and make sure everything is kosher. One appointment turns into two, and then a referral. You answer all the questions and take the tests they order for you. A couple of weeks later, the phone rings: “You need to come in right away.”
Read moreThe drought across Texas this summer hits the beautiful but fragile Medina River hard. No water is flowing and replenishing the river. Bone-dry between the Mayan Ranch and First Street bridges, water in the Bandera City Park is not gently flowing river water. It is now a stagnant and dangerous cesspool. According to the Bandera County River Authority and Ground Water District (“BCRAGD”), the Medina River E.Coli level at the park was measured on July 12th to be 499 MPN (Most Probable Number). The City of Bandera has a standard maximum of 389 MPN.
Read moreI am unhappily quite certain that many people are not taking in some of the most riveting testimony and information ever revealed in our world of politics by missing or ignoring the January 6 Committee hearings. When I say this, I am referring to “people” that believe that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to election fraud. It is hard to imagine that support for what is termed the “Big Lie” can persist considering what has been revealed by the hearings. There is a lot to choose from in these hearings regarding what has been the most striking.
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