In fifth grade, I was assigned to be a news reporter for a day during a field trip dedicated to economics, learning how to operate a town and write a check. My task for the day was to go around to the businesses and make video commercials. In ninth grade, I sat in the school’s counselor’s office dec...

Just another day in Paradise, right? Not really, if you’re currently living on the Big Island of Hawai’i. There, you have to keep looking over your shoulder to make sure a lava flow isn’t coming at you. If you watch any kind of television news (“fake,” or otherwise) you probably know that part of th...

Huge thanks is offered from this community to the Cailloux Foundation for its $1.5 million donation to expand the Hill Country Memorial Women’s Pavilion and rename it The Kathleen C. Cailloux Birthing Center. The upgrades and expansion to the HCM Obstetrics Department will allow the hospital to doub...

Last week, Santa Fe. Next week, who knows where? The news wailed again with coverage of another school shooting. More children attending schools have ...

While this coming three-day weekend is a portent to summer, the Monday holiday was created as a day of mourning. So please make a point to pause on Mo...

No matter which political primary you prefer, you can’t deny Ann Richards brought a true Texas persona to the Governor’s office. That is what actress ...