We all bear the cost when water resources are not well-managed. More than a century ago, the people of Texas wrote a core value into our state constitution: the conservation of natural resources is essential to our future. Adopted in 1917 following a devastating drought, the “Conservation Amendment”...

It is easy to see Create Healthy is spending $35 million to expand the Wellness Center and immediately judge it as wasteful and extravagant. The question crossed my mind when I first saw that number. At the same time, I really respect Create Healthy’s board and leadership, so I knew there must be a ...

When Emil Birck of Fredericksburg described his business as a full-service gas station, he wasn’t kidding. Customers could pull in for a tank of gas, an oil change, a lube job and a sack of barbecue for Sunday dinner. “My dad learned to cook barbecue as a youngster,” Milton Birck, son of Hill Countr...

The Horizon Development Team is a Fredericksburg-based development group that works with contractors and consultants who are local residents. We have ...

Everyone in Fredericksburg knew when President Johnson came to town. Those guys in dark suits and sunglasses came out of the woodwork. Congress establ...

It’s 3 a.m. and you’ve been asleep for hours. So, your heart is instantly pounding when you hear loud voices and banging at your front door. You open ...