KITCHEN-TABLE ISSUES: WHAT RURAL TEXANS WANT FROM_THEIR LEADERS

The latest poll from the University of Texas confi rmed what most of us living in rural Texas already know — people are less worried about partisan political fights and more worried about survival. We’re still Republicans, still conservative, still rooted in faith, family, and hard work.

CUTTING TAXES… AND CLASS

As early voting comes to a close, I originally intended to provide commentary on a few proposed constitutional amendments, especially those tied to taxes and local revenue streams.

Water is Life: Why Proposition 4 Deserves Your Attention

Voting is underway on 17 Texas Constitutional Amendments and Proposition 4 deserves your attention, because there is no greater need in Texas right now than building out цour water infrastructure and supply.Water is the most critical priority for all state spending—without it, our families, farms,...

Spending time In the Maritimes

Canada is so beautiful. So many flowers. So many trees. So many lakes. So many islands. We’re just back from a trip to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning from the great state of Kentucky, yes, Joe, Lance and I have been at Wingo, Kentucky all week, and what a great time we have had.

Faces & Places

“The circles of shame are vicious. Painful feelings of shame help cause people to be depressed and suicidal, these in turn become shameful aspects of the self.

PUBLISHER’S PERSPECTIVE

I posted a video https://youtu.be/PVNeTKNPwKY after receiving a few phone calls regarding a few other videos we posted on the DMC’s social media accounts about public notices that appear to violate the law.

THE POWER TO AMEND

I’ve been reading historian Jill Lepore’s We the People as part of my study of the U.S. Constitution. The framers never believed their creation would be perfect or unchanging. They built a document that could be amended— changed, refined, and made better by the people it would govern.

A Video by a Ten-Year-Old Made an Impression

Anthony Goodson of Garland was inspired to make movies after seeing a video a fourth grader made.“It’s funny. I was at a friend’s house and she showed me a video her son had made. It was just a pair of shoes walking across the room by themselves.

2 Cents Worth

I nearly forgot this is Saturday and I need to get my column in. Joe and I have been outside all evening. He has mowed the yard for the last time. We got 2 tenths of rain early this morning, hurrah, my flowers got a drink.The girls came yesterday and got cuttings off of all of them.