The First Amendment: It’s still a good idea, right?

It is fortunate this week’s editor’s column is limited in space, as this editor is also limited on opinion... At least for now.

Back to a whole new grindstone

For most readers, the time between last week’s edition and the one you read now has been about seven days. Feel free to compare those dates now. However, the DMC publisher and I crammed about three weeks of working vacation into three and a half days on the road.

Letter to the Editor

I wanted to clarify something if I may. By chance, my wife and I met Meg Gruben and her husband for lunch recently. They are great people and I really enjoy her columns.In Meg’s recent column, she mentioned a comment my wife made about Donald Trump keeping his mouth shut.

Water, water everywhere... wasted like opinions

I’m not going to say, “I told you so,” because while the statement may be accurate, it is more apt — and important — to say, “I keep telling you.

A Garden of Friendship

Ruth Ann Hattori, marketing director of the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg says the enclosed Japanese garden there is a lovely place to contemplate anything in your life you wish to think about. The museum is named for Admiral Chester A. Nimitz who commanded the US Navy during World war Two.

THIS WORLD OF HURT

When I started writing this collum, the eldest of my and my wife’s seven children was a freshman in high school.

2 Cents Worth

Beautiful windy day in Aspermont, Texas,this morning I know my son, Jay, is already fighting sand at Rotan, in Fisher County, Texas.

Letter to the Editor

I usually enjoy reading the “Check your Mirrors” column in the Double Mountain Chronicle, but the May 31st column was a huge disappointment. It was a hit job on Donald Trump, pure and simple.Was it untrue? No. Parts of it were true. But it was typical of leftists who control the airwaves.

Additional disaster assistance approved

Seven Texas counties have been approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for grants for emergency work and replacement of disaster-damaged public infrastructure, after severe weather and flooding struck much of Deep East Texas, Gov. Gregg Abbott’s office reported.

Essays from West of 98

Author’s note: this essay was originally published in early June 2023. I am re-publishing it now partly to reach some of my new readers and partly because these thoughts are an important precursor to something new that is on my heart and mind.