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Commentary
New Racquet Center is an investment in us
March 12, 2025
Lifelong sports, recreation opportunities are key to potential new facility There are worthy fund-raisers in this community right now — a new Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall and a proposed Fredericksburg Nature Center among them. But the prospect of a new Fredericksburg Racquet Center could solidify F...
When the good guys are called bad guys
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When the good guys are called bad guys
By Dave Campbell 
March 12, 2025
Guest column Three years ago, the full-scale invasion of democratic Ukraine by the Russians was a clear case of the Ukrainian good guys being viciously attacked by the Russian bad guys. The Western world rallied around the good guys giving them military, humanitarian and moral support. We welcomed t...
Commentary
Legislature must dive into water future
From the Dallas Morning News 
March 12, 2025
E ven when voters backed the creation of the $1 billion Texas Water Fund after the last legislative session, water planners knew it would be insufficient — a drop in the bucket, so to speak. According to a Texas 2036 analysis, Texas will need to invest at least $154 billion over the next 50 years in...
Dreaming of tax simplicity
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Dreaming of tax simplicity
By Tom Purcell 
March 5, 2025
Guest column Ican’t help but dream this time of the year. It’s the thick of winter, you see, which means I’m spending hours huddled in my home office ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
March 5, 2025
What is efficiency? Last fall, we hired an arborist, a professional in cultivating and managing trees, to examine our old oak. It had some dead limbs ...
A simple vaccine can stop return of measles
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A simple vaccine can stop return of measles
March 5, 2025
Virus has made a return thanks to rampant misinformation O ur story quoting the local medical director about vaccines being a safe and effective way t...
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A vote for the National Museum of Pacific War
March 5, 2025
W e love the National Museum of the Pacific War and, apparently, hundreds of thousands of others around the country do, as well. The museum was recogn...
Vouchers have House majority backing
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Vouchers have House majority backing
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders 
March 5, 2025
A slim majority of Texas House members have indicated they will back House Bill 3, which creates education savings accounts that allow families to use...
Commentary
Big money pushing private-school drive
By Linda Gerber Guest columnist 
March 5, 2025
I’m writing in response to David Anderson’s op-ed piece, along with the other letters to the editor related to the current “vouchers” initiatives whic...
Admiral Nimitz pays a visit
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Admiral Nimitz pays a visit
Hindsights Michael Barr 
February 26, 2025
He sailed into the room with an easy smile and a gleam in his eye. It had been 26 years since he last saw his grandfather’s famous hotel, remodeled no...
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