It’s Our Business One of my favorite business books is “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t,” by Jim Collins. The book is a best seller at over 10 million copies sold worldwide. A 21-member research team led by Collins conducted interviews generating 2,000 pages of trans...

Long-term memorial headstone business gets new owners Southwest Granite Co. has been making headstones for 104 years, according to long-time owner Joe Moellendorf. That puts the business closer in years to the founding of Fredericksburg than the present. But the long-storied business will soon be pa...

It’s Our Business E ight weeks into this new job, and I’m ready to leap into the future. We will hold our annual strategic planning meeting this Thursday, where I will share what I have learned as part of my “First 90 Days” plan, along with some recommendations. One theme that emerged in my research...

Non-kill animal rescue shelter receives several large donations Recent large donations to the Hill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to An...

It’s Our Business When the ball drops and a new year is ushered in, we often pause to both reflect on the past and consider how best to approach the f...

TTU dean sees lots of economic opportunity in Hill Country’s wine industry Texas Tech University’s Dean of Agriculture visited Fredericksburg in Novem...