If Father John Caster has a patron saint, it must be St. Barnabas. How else can you explain it? Father John completed confirmation at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg. Today he is the Vicar at St. Barnabas Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells southeast of London. Few people follow a straig...

State’s data center load expected to more than double by 2028 (The following was published by The Dallas Morning News.) As more data centers come online in Texas, conversations about how to plan for and oversee these facilities should be a priority for the 2027 legislative session. Every chatbot res...

Structure would be a scar across Texas’ wildest region Aplanned border wall through the Big Bend region is on hold after much public outcry. The reaction to it was similar to Harper’s vocal battle against the planned Battery Energy Storage System. Official maps now show a “virtual wall” going throug...

Speaks sans insults While I believe many, not all, of the policies being pushed/enacted by our president are correct and long overdue, I lament the ma...

A glimmer of progress in the fight against social media’s ill effects emerged Wednesday when a California jury found that Meta and Google led to a you...

Fredericksburg has always been a community that plans for its future, not just the present. In 2018–2019, a community and staff committee identified t...