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Read moreRecently, Texas state election officials made an announcement: the recount of votes in certain Texas counties (requested by Governor Greg Abbott) showed no voter fraud of consequence and election officials stood by their original reporting. Texas, like Georgia, Arizona, and others spent millions of dollars for recounts that came up with zilch….nada. Coupled with Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bogus law suits ( 0 wins), Texas tax payers now have quite a tab. We can’t spend money to not freeze this winter, but we can spend money on pathetic political nonsense.
Read more“Those who give up essential liberty for perceived safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
Read moreIf you’re reading this, chances are you’re a parent, or have friends or neighbors who are. Baby Boomer, Gen X, or Millennial— the K-12 school scene has changed so much since we were kids. Understanding these changes can help moms and dads guide their children to greater learning, success, and happiness. So: here are the three biggest changes affecting education in Bandera and across the U.S. today, and what these changes mean for your family.
Read moreThe recent vandalism of the Bandera County Democrats Adopt-a-Highway sign is the second incident in the past 14 months. The first defaced sign was replaced “at taxpayers’ expense”. Now there is a second vandalization of public property signage. An anonymous and cowardly action such as this doesn’t seem to be a very neighborly way to show appreciation for community efforts to keep our county clean and free of roadside trash. In the short term, replacement of the sign is wasteful use of taxpayer dollars. In the long term, these trivial misdeeds do accumulate and eventually have a way of coming back round to bite you in the butt. Enough said.
Read moreA recent letter to the editor claimed that America has never been a democracy. A quick review of The Federalist Papers undercuts that fallacy. The Federalist Papers consist of 85 essays published on May 28, 1788, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay.
Read moreWell, Bandera Readers, here we are. 2022. A good time to revisit the solar debacle speeding towards our fair county. I think it best to look at it from environmental and cost effectiveness perspectives. As always, I’ll supply my 750 words, and you supply your own analysis.
Read moreWhen I was a little girl growing up in Texas, we roller skated up and down our street in Fort Worth, played hide and go seek and kick the can. We climbed trees, enjoyed swings in a park on the grounds of the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum just a block from our house on Watonga Street and climbed on the great comedian’s statue as he sat astride his horse.
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