GUEST COLUMN What3Words is GPS on steroids. It is an ingenious, easy to use, smartphone app for finding a person or a place within a 10-foot square any place on the planet where a GPS signal is available. The key is ease of use. Rather than work with a string of numbers like latitude and longitude, ...

EDITORIALS Sunshine Week is again upon us. It’s time to reflect on how open government benefits us, yet how it’s like pulling teeth to get some elected officials to recognize it. Sunshine Week is about the public’s right to know what its government is doing and why. It can involve anything from fede...

Mile High Thoughts Skier Warren Miller once said, “A pair of skis are the ultimate form of transportation.” Since age six, I have spent the winter months in Colorado out on the ski slopes. I vaguely remember my first ski lesson, mainly just falling down quite often and drinking hot chocolate just ab...

Before I was a reporter for the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post , I spent two years in Atascosa County. I covered a wide spectrum of things and fou...

Small town movie theaters, like the Arcadia in Kerrville, were windows to the world for isolated communities in the mid-20th century. They were gather...

Times were tough in Texas after the Civil War. Unlike much of the South, the state had not been physically devastated by military action, but it had l...