Guest column I’m delighted to live in a beautiful small town, which affords a variety of shopping and dining options, and which has a city council and city staff that take seriously their responsibilities to provide the best possible inherently governmental services at the lowest practicable cost to...

TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS The second special session of the Texas Legislature ended last Thursday with a new congressional map, flood relief and safety measures but a stalemate on whether to ban or regulate THC. The Dallas Morning News reported that lawmakers approved most of ...

Lawmakers shouldn’t profit from insider info to boost portfolio W hen Mr. Smith goes to Washington, it shouldn’t mean an automatic boost into the highest tax bracket. We were happy to see politicians as diverse as our own U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and Rhode Island’s Seth Magaziner, a Rhode Island Democrat,...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation redrawing Texas’ congressional map on Friday. A lawsuit challenging the redrawn districts as being racially discri...

How often do we stop and think about water? It flows from our taps so easily that we forget just how precious and precarious our supply really is. Cat...

Restaurants can be quiet and reserved, campy and eccentric or anything in between. Like a good dog or an old pair of boots, a restaurant takes on the ...