Amendment abuse One of the liabilities of being a popular destination spot is its attraction to individuals or groups who wish to use our special events as opportunities to promote their personal agenda. The First Amendment guaranteeing free speech is the shield and defense used by people who see no...

S cience now says those who are bookworms may be rewarded with potentially two years of additional life. A new study says avid readers live 23 months longer than their non-reading counterparts. A study published in Social Science & Medicine found the difference in those with daily reading habits and...

No one does a ‘Hallmark’ Christmas like Fredericksburg with its annual Yule festivities What a difference three decades makes. Organizers of the first Christmas parade, held here in 1994, remember there were four parade entries that year. Those floats went around Market Square twice and that was tha...

Iwant to welcome all the northerners who are new to town and clue them into what autumn looks like in the Texas Hill Country. I’ve heard ad nauseum ab...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower court ruling that threw out the state’s new congressional map, allowing the new districts to stay in ...

Focus on similarities instead of differences this year, and let’s heal our nation. This season of Thanksgiving let’s focus on what we have in common, ...