Transparency vs. Permanency

Texas is well into its 88th Legislative Session with over 2,100 bills for consideration, the nation is gearing up for a spectacularly expensive and bloodthirsty campaign for the Oval Office, interest rates are up, the economy is down, banks are closing, closet doors are opening, everyone is a...

American Idol, Part 4:

Woodrow F. Call and August McCrae were not good people. Now that I’ve gotten your attention and perhaps enraged or alienated a few of you, let us wrap the journey through Western literature and film.

2 Cents Worth

I am always so proud when someone stops me and says, “Carol I enjoyed your column so much, or Carol what are you going to write this week, and I always say “I am writing this column for all of you to enjoy.

A slow-pitched hardball

The response from last week’s editorial carved such a deep line of division, with each side rising so fast I had the sense of falling into some parliamentary trench of shame where a politician’s cheerleaders and effigy burners could rain down their rotten eggs of discontent upon me with equal...

American Idol, Part 3:

Louis L’Amour or Elmer Kelton? Which do you prefer? For fans of the Western novel, it is a debate that has run for decades. Owen Wister invented the modern Western, Zane Grey took it to worldwide popularity, and after World War 2, L’Amour and Kelton became the anchors of the genre.

2 Cents Worth

Where did the week go, I hardly got started and it was the weekend again. Monday after I got my column wrote I told Joe, “Let’s go to Abilene to Hobby Lobby.

I’m down with OPT (Other People’s Transparency) week...

The second Monday of the month is the start of an always interesting news week as multiple public meetings occur within the first 72 hours, and anytime Fisher County Officials get together it’s akin to watching a street-fight turn into a hockey game… or the other way around depending on who put...

2 Cents Worth

Good morning to all of you who are reading the Double Mountain Chronicle this morning, maybe it's going to be a pretty week this week, and hopefully lots of rain, well we can dream can't we!!!!! The two days we had last week that were so pretty, we all enjoyed so much.

American Idol, Part 2: Tragic and Alone

The ending of John Ford’s epic 1956 “The Searchers” is one of the most famous scenes in Western film. John Wayne portrays Ethan Edwards, a Civil War veteran who spends years hunting his niece Debbie, who was abducted as a child by Comanche raiders.

The Central Texas Beekeepers School

“Out of every three bites of food that you put in your mouth, two bites were there because a bee pollinated something,” says Michael Kelling of Brenham who manages the Central Texas Beekeepers School, now in its 13th year.