Rev. Richard Skinner/Jefferson First Assembly of God Summertime often revolves around tasty food, especially summer fruits. Everyone has their favorite. I like peaches, blueberries, and watermelon. Even as I write, I can savor the taste of homemade peach ice cream, blueberry pie and sweet watermelons. We all know what theyContinue Reading
Michael Reagan/Contributing Writer Barack Obama told a good joke the other day. He said he thought that the level of disinformation and misinformation online has gotten so dangerously high in the U.S. that we need to develop “digital fingerprints” so ordinary citizens can tell what’s truly true and know who’sContinue Reading
Dick Polman/Contributing Writer I get why the Republicans are so obsessed with Hunter Biden. They don’t much of anything else. Inflation is down, job creation is up, the deficit is down, the Dow is up, Joe Biden’s achievements (especially on infrastructure) are kicking in, and the GOP has chained itselfContinue Reading
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer Texan Byron Nelson was a legend in sports. In the 1940s, he was the most successful golfer in the world, never losing his faith or his modesty. John Byron Nelson, Jr., was born in Waxahachie in 1912 to a hard-working family of devoted churchgoers. In the 1920s, the familyContinue Reading
The hopes for new faces and new attitudes was quietly shown the door during Tuesday nights City Council meeting. While there is one new face on Council, and two returning ones, the names and faces on the various City Boards will stay the same – or go back to thoseContinue Reading
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer The generation that fought World War I is now gone, but their legacy of bravery continues to live on. One of those figures was Private Marcelino Serna of El Paso, one of the most highly decorated men of the war. As an immigrant, he fought with uncommonContinue Reading
Ken Bridges Adversity, it is said, is the truest test of character. When times are flush and problems scarce, few will have to find a way to rise to the occasion when the occasion has risen for them. Gov. Joseph Sayers was a man who faced many crises in hisContinue Reading
Michael Reagan Oil money, oil money. When you have as much of it as Saudi Arabia has, it can buy a lot of things – including a sacred American sports institution like the PGA. As all of us hackers know, the PGA Tour shocked the golf world this week byContinue Reading
Peter Funt Give Donald Trump credit for one thing: The man knows how to make lemonade. Each time new charges are leveled against the former president, cash registers ring at the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee. Most of Trump’s appeals for money end with the message: “It’s because ofContinue Reading
Ken Bridges Change often came slowly to the South, but it often arrived with a whirlwind of effort pushing it along. Helen Stoddard, a force of nature unto herself, became a leader in the state with her efforts to defeat alcohol and promote women’s equality. Stoddard became an early professorContinue Reading
Hunter Bonner/MC Republican Assembly This past week, news was abuzz about Senator Dianne Feinstein’s return to the US Senate. Senator Feinstein returned in a wheelchair, and when spoken to by members of the press, seemed incoherent. At one point, she even asked, “Where are we at?” Feinstein has been sufferingContinue Reading
Glenn Melancon Note: Glenn is on vacation this summer and has provided a series of columns previously printed. Not all life skills are the same. Some are more important than others. One essential skill is learning to tell the difference between fact and fiction. We have to learn who isContinue Reading
Ken Bridges In so many ways, what was once science fiction is rapidly becoming a reality. Nanotechnology, once a seemingly impossible idea is now becoming the future of medicine and engineering, thanks to Dr. Richard Smalley, Texas chemist, Nobel Prize winner, and the father of nanotechnology. Richard Errett SmalleyContinue Reading
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer For the first hundred years of American history, there was one cause of public debt: war. The United States of America started in debt, and it paid its bills. There wasn’t another spike in debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio until the American Civil War. At thisContinue Reading
V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute It was Mother’s Day last Sunday. And for me it was one that hasn’t felt the same in over a decade— and it never will again. One’s mother is someone special – unique even – and once their gone, it’s never the same. Mother’s are bothContinue Reading
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer Have you ever heard the saying “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”? I’ve heard it all my life. It served me as one of those wise sayings: use the right tool for a job. My dad would certainly agree. He wouldContinue Reading
V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute It is Mother’s Day. And one that hasn’t felt the same in over a decade and it never will again. One’s mother is someone special – unique even – and once their gone, it’s never the same. Mother’s are both a blessing and a specialContinue Reading
This week the Texas Legislature did something they haven’t done since 1927 – expel a member of the House of Representatives and they did it unanimously. Former Royce City Representative Bryan Slaton was ejected from the House on Tuesday following his resignation on Monday. He was expelled after an investigationContinue Reading
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer Fox News just agreed to pay $787.5 million for lying about Dominion voting machines. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton offered to use $3.3 million of tax dollars to settle a whistleblower case. Donald Trump paid nearly $300,000 to cover up his extramarital affairs. It must be niceContinue Reading
