Commentary
Y’All Answered: Will Democrats Support Harris?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Gas & Groceries – Taking the Fight to America’s Voters
When Americans must choose between paying the rent or feeding their kids, the country is ready for a new direction.
Y’All Answered: Biden on the Ballot?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Remembering Rene Poe: A Lifetime of Dedication
A celebration of Rene’s life will be held on July 12 in Granbury.
Commentary Archive
Dickson: San Angelo Council Certifies Initiative Signatures, Sets Hearing on Outlawing Abortion
On Tuesday, February 1, the city council of San Angelo, Texas (pop. 101,612), received the certification of the citizen initiative petition signatures and scheduled a hearing to consider the passage of an ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. The item...
Volume and Mass
It’s easy to confuse volume with mass in politics. Our inboxes, social media feeds, news shows… everything is set to maximum screech. All of which makes it hard for citizens to the discern the substance of issues. My grandfather once passed on something he’d heard...
Dickson: Planned Parenthood Withdraws Appeal Over Lubbock Anti-Abortion Ordinance
On May 1, 2021, Lubbock, Texas (pop. 264,000), became the largest city to pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion when citizens voted 62.5 percent to 37.5 percent to adopt the ordinance as law in their city. The historic vote made Lubbock the first city to...
Who Are The Idiots?
Mark Twain didn’t like school boards. He spoke often and disparagingly of them. At one point he wrote, “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Why are school boards the pinnacle of idiotic behavior? The answer may not...
Dickson: City of Alvin Rejects Ordinance Outlawing Abortion
On Thursday, January 20, 2022, the City of Alvin (pop. 27,140), located in Brazoria County about 30 minutes south of Houston, considered an ordinance that would have outlawed abortion within city limits. The ordinance was placed on the council agenda by Councilmen...
Bovard: Republicans Plan To Win Back the Senate, Then Do Nothing, Per Usual
The 2022 agenda for House Republicans may be out of touch with the current political moment, but at least they can say they’re trying. Over on the other side of the Capitol, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the leader of the Senate’s Republican conference, has announced...
Remembering the Horror
I have had the opportunity over the years to meet several men who participated in the liberation of the concentration and death camps created by Germany’s National Socialist Workers’ Party. The horror of what they and their colleagues found defies words – yet...
Root: Signatures Undermined
With the help of Republicans in 2021, vote harvesters in Texas won’t have to worry about supplying convincing signatures on mail-in ballot applications. Last week, election administrators taking part in a call with the secretary of state’s office were reportedly told...
Protecting Words
Two years before Israel became a nation in 1948, the first ancient scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepheds in the caves of Qumran, near the Dead Sea. Nearly a thousand scrolls were eventually uncovered by archeologists, covering most of the Old Testament,...