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Please Don’t Sell Your Vote
Please Don’t Sell Your Vote
There’s a major assault going on in Texas, among other states, against the values of integrity and honor that you and I hold dear. 01/24/2024 00:00
Introducing Mark Miller, Candidate for Bandera County Chair
Introducing Mark Miller, Candidate for Bandera County Chair
Editor’s Note: The following is an election announcement from a local candidate. Canddiates are allowed one announcement free of charge with all following materials charged an ad fee. To place your announcement, email [email protected]. 01/24/2024 00:00
Filmmaker’s Inaugural Wine Celebrates Upcoming Eclipse
Filmmaker’s Inaugural Wine Celebrates Upcoming Eclipse
Wine has long been used to commemorate major celestial events, like the upcoming total solar eclipse crossing Texas and much of the northeastern part of the U.S. on April 8th. 01/24/2024 00:00
DOJ report on response to Uvalde shooting scathing
DOJ report on response to Uvalde shooting scathing
The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report late last week on the May 4, 2022, mass shooting 01/24/2024 00:00
Don’t Smell The Dishes!
Don’t Smell The Dishes!
Many years ago when I was living in Utah with my family, I had an unusual problem with my family that I had never had before. At the time we also had a family dog. 01/17/2024 05:00
America’s Gift to Hitler
America’s Gift to Hitler
In the 1930s, Hitler and the “Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism” — The United States of America. In 1935, Hitler sent 45 German lawyers to the U.S. to study the Jim Crow laws passed by the South after The Civil War that legalized racial segregation. 01/17/2024 05:00
After Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, fuhgeddaboudit!
After Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, fuhgeddaboudit!
Since the advent of the Iowa caucuses in 1972 and the South Carolina primary in 1980, the “first in the nation” political contests, including the New Hampshire primary which dates back to 1916, have been able to consistently end up selecting who the nominee for President will eventually be particularly for Republicans. 01/17/2024 05:00
Quakes prompt officials to limit disposal wells
Quakes prompt officials to limit disposal wells
The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas. 01/17/2024 05:00
Possum Cop Chronicles
Possum Cop Chronicles
When you’re a game warden, it’s all hands on deck when things go awry, and severe weather is no exception. 01/17/2024 05:00
RE: JODIE SINCLAIR COLUMN
RE: JODIE SINCLAIR COLUMN
What a courageous group of Marines at Tarawa. Willing to give everything to keep Americans free and end the war. It instills deep appreciation and deep sadness at the same time. I’m sure it was a difficult thing to film. You warn in your letter to the editor, that the enemy we face is now from within in the person of Donald Trump. I am a bit amazed by your foreknowledge of Trumps agenda. Authoritarian rule through the Executive branch, neutralizing the power of the Supreme Court and Congress, essentially disrupting our checks and balances? Or has that been happening or attempted already? I agree, it is time to honor those young men by doing our job. 01/10/2024 00:00
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Last year about this time, I resolved to start off the year on a positive note, but, alas. “How dare you!”... to quote young Greta. Ms. Jodie Sinclair has again turned her award-winning journalistic skills to manipulating emotions and employing the Saul Alinsky tactic of accusing her opposition of her own party initiatives. Beginning with a WWII story lauding the heroic sacrifice of our parents and grandparents to attract our patriotic emotions, she contorts into a fabricated description of a dystopian world that her Leftist followers are actualy bringing to fruition incrementally, even as the “boiling frog” analogy. 01/10/2024 00:00
What Does “Freedom” Mean to You?
What Does “Freedom” Mean to You?
I tend to be a rule follower, but I don’t like it when rules don’t make sense or seem fair. Who gets to decide what makes sense or what is “fair”? 01/10/2024 00:00
Voter registration deadline for primary approached
Voter registration deadline for primary approached
The deadline to register to vote in the Texas Democratic and Republican primary elections is Feb. 5. Voters on March 5 will choose their nominees for president, U.S. Senator, all 38 U.S. House members from Texas, and a number of other state and local offices, from the Texas Supreme Court to district attorneys, sheriffs and county commissioners. 01/10/2024 00:00
Some Moments Never Go Away
Some Moments Never Go Away
“Red Rover, Red Rover, let Bobby come over!” 01/03/2024 05:00
The Wait
The Wait
It has been the case that during El Niño, Texas gets more rainfall. As we wait for much needed rain, one has to wonder if that pattern will be disrupted by the changing climate. Our view of the bottom of ponds and other water holes and dry creeks over an extended time certainly has been unnerving. 01/03/2024 05:00
Spate of new laws effective Jan. 1
Spate of new laws effective Jan. 1
After the Texas Legislature spent much of 2023 in session, a bevy of new laws go into effect on New Year’s Day, though some have been delayed by lawsuits challenging their constitutionality. 01/03/2024 05:00
Blackman speaking at Tuesday’s SAR meeting
Blackman speaking at Tuesday’s SAR meeting
On Tuesday, Jan. 9, the Hill Country Chapter no. 31 of Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution will hold its monthly chapter meeting at Rails, a Café at the Depot Event Center. 01/03/2024 05:00
War Is Over If You Want It
War Is Over If You Want It
An iconic song back in the 1960's addressed the causes of war, and what leads young people to fight in them. Buffy Saint Marie's Universal Soldier advised that we could end war if soldiers refused to fight. So what if we gave her idea a test this winter? Let's suggest to the soldiers among the various warring parties from the Middle East to Europe to Africa and beyond that they refuse to kill each other for a while.This idea may not be as crazy as it first may sound, and in fact has been tried in the past with some success. 12/27/2023 00:00
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Hill Country CattleWomen will start the New Year with a gathering at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel and Conference Center, located in Kerrville, at 2033 Sidney Baker Street, for their annual January Legislative Meeting. 12/27/2023 00:00
Honoring America’s Millitary
Honoring America’s Millitary
“With The Marines at Tarawa” is the most terrifying World War II film I have ever seen. Every American who loves our country has an obligation to watch it. It’s real and it’s accurate. 12/27/2023 00:00
Congress must not miss an opportunity to end HIV
Congress must not miss an opportunity to end HIV
Congress and President Biden recently struck an agreement to keep the government funded through early 2024. Between now and February, lawmakers will have a chance to solve policy disagreements and, at least in theory, pass longer-term spending bills. 12/27/2023 00:00
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