Sunlight is starting to break through at the Capitol in the final month of the Texas legislative session.  Open government measures have won passage in the House of Representatives …

The U.S. Senate race between incumbent John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton was officially launched on April 8. Undoubtedly this will be one of the most contentious and expensive primary races …

When one nitpicks, there’s no end to it. We’re all frequently guilty, and I admit to being among chief sinners, particularly since the term’s initial usage began in 1956, the same …

It’s got to be a borderline miracle when Eastland — a town with fewer than 5,000 people — can lay claim to not one, but TWO “facts” worthy of the Guinness Book of …

Before choirs proclaimed that He is risen, before church bells sounded around the world celebrating Jesus’ resurrection and before children skittered across lawns for multicolored eggs, I saw …

As the race for Aledo ISD Place 4 progresses and Mr. Stoker attempts to unseat Forrest Collins,   I feel compelled to write about what is at stake. Forrest Collins is a friend of mine. I …

I am trying to obtain a permit to modify an existing two-car garage on the rear of my 1.2 acre home lot to an up-to-date efficiency studio apartment. It has been Mission Impossible! We have read the …

An important school board election is coming soon. Please take time from your busy schedule to vote and reelect Forrest Collins to this key position. We were privileged to join the Bearcat …

Fourteen years ago, the legislature passed vital protections for freedom of speech in the Texas Citizens Participation Act. This week, they’re looking to gut it. The TCPA addresses the …

They’re as predictable as frantic taxpayers working until the hours are few on April 14 to meet income tax filing deadlines the following midnight. A nomadic bunch, they show up following …

One of the most important things my dad taught me was to leave a place better than you found it. By virtually every measure, Mayor Doyle Moss has done that with our community. Under his …

I’m Jan Lynch, and I have owned a business in East Parker County for over 50 years. Throughout my time here, I have seen many challenges that cities face—water availability, sewer …

Doyle Moss has been an outstanding leader during his time as our mayor here in Willow Park.   His leadership has helped and propelled the community forward.   Positive and organized …

I might never have resented my brother if he’d have been born other than in 1944, when Grapette was getting a foothold in our town. I had enjoyed “only child” perks for seven …

The ballyhoo about “no free lunches” was first bandied about in the 1880s and today, Southwest Airlines’ “bags fly free” death bell is on the verge of gonging. Long …

Had a Texas Aggie been a Rip Van Winkle wannabe in 2011, he (she) might hardly recognize the university upon awakening from slumber in 2025. There might be understandable confusion. Is real time …

Winning a district championship is hard. Well, unless you’re the Aledo Bearcats football team, which has been collecting them every year since 2008. Then it’s about as common as a …

Taxation without representation is tyranny. Though it’s hard to nail down who initially coined this statement, it was the hue and cry of “British Americans” when they fought during …

Odds of brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright constructing, then flying, the world’s first powered aircraft in 1903 — and Southwest Airlines’ founding what would become one of the …

Column deadlines often are near enough to nudge before first paragraphs are actually written. Some might think such to be sheer procrastination. I prefer to consider my “delays” to …

This column originally appeared in The Dallas Morning News where Glenn Rogers is a contributing columnist.   When my two oldest children were young, there was no “city …

It was early September in 1963 when I first sat at my desk in Mrs. Sides’ first-grade classroom at Stewart Elementary School in Lubbock. My parents bought a house two blocks down on the same …

Uncle Mort doesn’t own a smartphone, and only recently found a well-worn flip phone for $10 on eBay. Neither does my ancient uncle own a computer, claiming he’d never remember where the …

Economists have suggested for years that we’d be better served if the U.S. Mint ceased turning out pennies--the nation’s lowest denominational coin. Though some 140 billion pennies remain …

Tears of millions of Americans have scarcely dried since the tragic mid-air collision of a passenger airliner with a military helicopter on January 29 in the icy waters of the Potomac River in …