Old Glory News

The weather has been so beautifully and I love this kind of weather. Sure wish it could stay this way all the time. It certainly is the best football weather and I know the players and fans are happy with it. Don't forget Saturday evening (Sept.

2 CENTS WORTH

Good morning to all of my friends that I never see anymore!!!!!! Well at least we can reach each other by the phone and some of you just read my column and tell me how much you enjoy it and that's why I still write this every Monday Morning.

PRINCIPAL'S OF JOURNALISM

9. Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience Every journalist must have a personal sense of ethics and responsibility–a moral compass.

Faces & Places

Dear China, Hello. How are you? I hope this letter finds you well. I hope you don’t mind, but there are a few things I need to go over with you. You know those little tags you put in the clothes y’all make that say, “Made in China”? They usually fall on about the 4th or 5th vertebra of my neck.

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

WARNING: this essay might be a difficult read. It is an important read, though, for each of us. In the past, I have broached the top of mental health and suicide in this space. It is an important topic, but one that we try to avoid discussing, particularly in rural communities.

IS BEND THE NEW LUCKENBACH?

Bret Cali has the general store and café at Bend in San Saba County. He is one clever dude and just might be the new Hondo Crouch, the late self-proclaimed foreign minister of Luckenbach. Hondo became famous for his shenanigans at the little town he bought and put on the map.

A new season of opportunity and happiness

Today, I’m in my home working on the final column that I’ll pen from this location. Next week, I’ll write my first column from our new home. We are in a season of change and transition. I’ve written some part of my books or columns, from every space in this home.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

The growing-up years included watching television together as a family. We had the three basic channels plus S.C.A.T, which was Snyder’s local television channel. What more did we need? Television was still somewhat of a novelty, even a luxury, in those days.

Cow-calf producers need better price discovery

For too long, cow-calf producers across the nation have marketed our cattle with one hand tied behind our back. The culprit has been an ever-growing lack of price discovery. In the free market, accurate pricing of a commodity depends upon the free flow of information up and down the supply chain.

Between the Guideposts

So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “what is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.