Burt Compson Is a Sailplame Guru

Just about every glider pilot in the world knows about Marfa and its thermal updrafts, which provided the means to set distance and altitude records for sailplanes (642 miles, 28,000 feet). Most of those pilots know Burt Compton, who spends a lot of time at the Marfa airport.

Check Your Mirrors

As with most of the readers in this part of Texas, I grew up with a small-town indoctrination. The values that impact faith, family, economics, and education were primed right here in West Texas, the Rolling Plains, and the Panhandle.

Faces & Places

“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: 'Love. They must do it for love.' Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants.

Well... now what?

Unless you are the kind of person who starts reading newspapers on the opinions page, by the time you have made it this far, you likely have developed a few opinions about the news this week as well.A little behind the scenes into the publishing side of the news, we were taking advantage of a light...

Early voting begins Oct. 24

Early voting in the Nov. 8 general election begins Oct. 24 and runs through Nov. 4. Applications for voting by mail must be received by Oct. 28, according to the secretary of state’s office.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning to all of you, a beautiful morning in Aspermont, Texas, and we got rain, wonderful rain, grab you a cup of coffee and let's visit. My kids told me yesterday ,'Mom do you and Joe stay at the Dairy Queen all evening after church on Sunday.?'

What are we going to reflect

As an opinion writer as well as a person with a genuine curiosity about what motivates people to do the things they do, I sometimes have to reflect upon what motivates me to do what I do, and often I don’t like what I see any more than anyone else.

Faces & Places

BY MEG GRUBEN “Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts, and the sight of people's breath in the air.

A one man movie show

I met Mike Robertson at a restored theater in Spur, where I did my new one-man show OUTRAGEOUS TEXAS WOMEN OF CHARACTER. Before the show started I saw this man in the audience who looked a lot like Santa Claus.

People, Place, and The Economy

“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.” —Wendell Berry Last week, I set forth the importance and value of knowing a place.