Published by News Staff on Fri, 04/24/2020 - 12:00am
Conspiracy theories flourish in an atmosphere of fear and ignorance.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 12:00am
Daily in this election year the personal and political portions of life have become difficult to separate. President Trump dominates the airwaves and the dialogue, as his tweets are disseminated further on every newscast.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 12:00am
Noise. It’s everywhere. Manmade noise, that is, in places where it was never intended to be. We’ve grown accustomed to it, a gradual intrusion. To the extent it annoys us—in
Published by News Staff on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 12:00am
Mike Pence and I spent my birthday a few weeks ago in McAllen visiting migrant centers. He went to the Border Patrol Detention Center with its overcrowded cages. I went
Published by News Staff on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 12:00am
Even as he issued an order on May 25, 1865 for all county sheriffs to protect state and Confederate property, Gov. Pendleton Murrah feared there was no stopping looting in
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/22/2019 - 12:00am
This morning the cardinals filled our woods with full-hearted song. Even more than Mrs. Muske’s daffodils, the chorus of this particular bird suggests to us that spring is stirring, once
Published by News Staff on Fri, 01/18/2019 - 12:00am
The month after bringing home the Nobel Prize for Physics, Jack Kilby found himself back in the spotlight on Jan. 16, 2001 as the Texas legislature honored the creator of
Published by News Staff on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 8:55am
One of our favorite places when we first came to Winedale was Wagner’s Store on FM 2714. We considered it, in 1985, the social center of the community. Growing up in Houston, I never knew a place like that existed, until Leon Hale expanded my horizons.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 08/02/2018 - 9:13am
The challenge is not to let mourning begin too soon. Not to let it begin when the slide begins. You can never be sure anyway, that your suspicions are correct. Not until you are far past the beginning.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 9:00am
An East Texas preacher applied for a patent on May 31, 1901 for his scripture inspired flying machine.
