Tim Buchanan and Steve Wood, architects behind the past 10 Aledo state football championships, are retiring. The announcement came last Friday morning, Jan. 27, a day I thought was going to be spent …
Fifty years ago, responding to public demand in an era of reform, Texas enacted a sweeping law ensuring the people’s right to know about their government. The Texas Public Information Act …
For all the challenges facing Texans, our state government serves the people pretty darned well, especially when compared to the frequent dysfunction in Washington. Having just finished eight …
Our family had never spent a Christmas and New Years outside of Texas but this past year of 2022, because of changes in family circumstances, the whole family went to Heredia, Costa Rica. This …
My great great grandfather, Dr. Edwin Clay Rogers of Fannin County, served in the 5th Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1840-41. He served alongside Sam Houston, who had termed out in his first …
Monday night’s 65-7 loss by the TCU Horned Frogs to the Georgia Bulldogs in college football’s national championship game must have brought back some painful memories for longtime Horned …
As I watched schools from my current and new districts (Albany, Aledo, and Brock) at the UIL High School Football state championships at AT&T Stadium surrounded by 40,000 fans, parents, teachers, …
Never did I think I would see a player die on the field. But I did on Monday, Jan. 2. Thank goodness Damar Hamlin did not stay that way long. He was resuscitated, but as of the writing of this he …
“Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly” …. Mark 9:25. This is definitely a …
We should have known all along how this would end. It’s hard to imagine a team that had won nine state championships since 2009, including most recently a second three-peat in 2018-20, would …
Like most of us this time of year, Congress has a lengthy must-do list and at the top of that list should be passing policies to save more lives from cancer and improve patient care for those who are …
College football will dominate the TV airwaves for the next 30-40 days with the innumerable number of bowl games and the national playoffs. It seems impossible that my alma mater, TCU, has had the …
Years ago, on a veterinary mission trip to Haiti, I was astonished when I witnessed a daily routine in the village where we worked. Early in the mornings, villagers walked for miles and miles to a …
It has been a very interesting week around The Community News . As I write this it is Wednesday. Less than a week ago a huge crowd of people showed up at the crack of dawn in front of Bearcat …