TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS The second special session of the Texas Legislature ended last Thursday with a new congressional map, flood relief and safety measures but a stalemate on whether to ban or regulate THC. The Dallas Morning News reported that lawmakers approved most of ...

Lawmakers shouldn’t profit from insider info to boost portfolio W hen Mr. Smith goes to Washington, it shouldn’t mean an automatic boost into the highest tax bracket. We were happy to see politicians as diverse as our own U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and Rhode Island’s Seth Magaziner, a Rhode Island Democrat,...

New poll finds pessimism on the rise among Republicans, Democrats The following editorial is from the Dallas Morning News. Many long generations of Americans have seen their children fare better than themselves. Through the age of industry, the movement away from subsistence farming, the rise of uni...

AGRICULTURE SPOTLIGHT The power of trying GROWING THE NEXT GENERATION PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Caeley Carmack goes from city kid to Harper FFA president C...

The Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT), Fredericksburg Chapter, will hear from Gillespie County’s District Conservationist Warren Day during its Se...

Fireworks illuminated the Texas A&M Forest Service’s single engine airtanker at Gillespie County Airport on Saturday night. The City of Fredericksburg...