Accountability Is Either a Standard or a Slogan

Senator Charles Perry wrote a column last week calling for fairness, proportionality, due process, and consistent standards from an institution he believes has failed to live up to them.He was talking about the NCAA.The principles, though, travel. Perry’s argument has merit.

HIKING THE PALO DURO

My first few trips to the Palo Duro Canyon State Park were to interview Margaret Harper who organized the musical TEXAS, on stage annually June through August in the park’s Pioneer Amphitheater. The show is now in its 60th year. Most of those early interviews were done in Margaret’s home.

Old Glory News

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. I sure do enjoy the cloudy, cooler weather and the little showers of rain. We cannot seem to get much at a time but we are truly glad to get every drop we get.Maybe we will get more before it is all over.

SENIOR TRAVEL DISCOUNTS: HOW TO SAVE ON YOUR NEXT TRIP

Dear Savvy Senior, My husband and I are retiring later this year and hope to travel more while we’re still healthy and active. Our budget will be tighter, so every dollar counts. Are there worthwhile senior travel discounts you can tell us about, and at what age do they begin?

VISA DELAYS LEAVE TEXAS FARMERS SHORT FOR PLANTING SEASON

Texas producers are entering the 2026 planting season without the H-2A guest workers they spent months trying to bring across the border.

A.I. DOESN’T ATTEND MEETINGS AND RECORDS DON’T REPORT THEMSELVES

If you want entertainment, you have seemingly limitless options: Cable, network TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube… the list goes on and on. If you want answers, you have fewer places to turn.

WHAT THE PANHANDLE KNOWS ABOUT LIVING ON THE MARGINS

A WATER HOSE AGAINST THE WIND:My best friend's father lost his home this week.The entire house — gone in a few minutes. A spark, forty-mile-an-hour winds, drought-cured grass, and that was it. They tried to fight it with a garden hose. They escaped with the clothes on their backs.

THE HISTORIAN OF ROUTE 66 IN TEXAS

Delbert Treu ranches near the panhandle town of Alanreed on the old Route 66, now IS 40. He and his wife Ruth founded the Devil’s Rope Museum in nearby McLean in 1991. It’s a Western Heritage museum full of barbed wire items.

Faces & Places

“But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item.

Summer School

Regardless of job or age, summer seems to be the time when we all experience some change of schedule. If you are an educator or student, the welcome nine weeks away from the classroom gives you the chance to rest and rejuvenate.