Texas Type Ken Esten Cooke Christine and I attended a special event on Friday night, one that will hopefully serve as a catalyst to open people’s eyes to a problem unseen through the “Aspenly” image of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County. (Insert eye roll.) A dinner for supporters of The Grace Cente...

Does anyone think a state lawmaker knows more about running a school district than a superintendent or school board members? Neither do we. That’s why we find no good in the so-called ban of “taxpayer-funded lobbying” proposal in the Republican ballot measures during this primary election. Propositi...

Six days after the election, it looked like Coke Stevenson had beaten Lyndon Johnson in the 1948 Democratic Primary runoff for the U.S. Senate seat from Texas, but there was a little problem with arithmetic down in Jim Wells County. Coke Stevenson was born in a log cabin in Mason County in 1888. His...

Women were the real winners of Sunday night’s match-up that featured the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. From the sidelines to the hal...

Over the past decade, concerns about dark money in politics have taken a back seat to concerns about election rigging or maliciously using social medi...

If you own an AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway, guest house, vacation rental or B&B in Fredericksburg and have patio lights that you leave on, could you please ...