PUBLISHER'S PERSPECTIVE | RAISING HELL RESPECTFULLY, OF COURSE

The Editor is right that the answers hide in the boring parts. Here is one more boring part. Public notices & Agendas.I have told you that before and I will keep telling you every time they come up.State law does not treat those notices as decoration. It treats them as conditions.

COUNTING ON YOUR BOREDOM TO KEEP YOU FROM COUNTING

This week’s edition of the Double Mountain Chronicle is saturated with articles about tax rates and budgets, which is an admittedly boring way of informing readers that some of the most important information in government may also be the least likely to even garner a measure of attention let alone...

FLU SHOTS FOR SENIORS: WHAT’S NEW THIS FALL

Dear Savvy Senior, I always get my annual flu shot, but I never know whether I’m getting the right one.

Do “We the People” Still Matter?

“Does this bore you?” I have spent more than two decades working in and around Texas government, and I was shocked by what happened next. A woman testifying before the Texas Railroad Commission asked Commissioner Wayne Christian the question directly.“Yes,” he answered.

JUST PLAIN OLD DOGS

We’ve had three dogs. Not a single pedigree among them. Their names were Brown Lady, Shelby and Rough. When I was doing radio news, I always got up way before dawn to go the police station and look over the overnight log of activities.

SWEEP THE PORCH, TOMORROW’S COMING

Between gathering, researching, and compiling information for the articles in this week’s edition, I have also been working to gather information for future reporting, which has been, in a word, irksome.Or perhaps that is simply the effect of communicating with attorneys, especially when strong...

THE RATTUS, THE WARDROBE, AND THE BROOMSTICK SHOGUN

Occasionally, I am reminded in the most emphatic of ways: plans don't always go as planned.

Faces & Places

“What is a Socialist? That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best.

DOUG AND HIS ANIMAL FARM

Doug Baum likes kolaches and camels. He lives at West, a Czech community near Waco. He is known for his Texas Canel Corps, which Doug says is a very small corps. “It’s just me, mostly.

Editorial: Opinionated Noir

A cigarette bobs like a conductor's baton with the rhythmical clattering of the keys as the reporter stabs out the letters of mumbled words.