Flasher signals A troubling trend has developed among Texas drivers — driving with emergency flashers on, particularly in the rain. I can’t figure out how or why someone thought this was a good idea. It’s a very bad idea for a number of reasons. Emergency flashers are intended to call attention to a...

The number of people still missing in the July 4 Kerr County flood dropped to two after another body was recovered last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The two still missing are a child and an adult who were at Camp Mystic, where at least 27 campers and counselors died. The death toll ...

My friend, Dan Parker, co-publisher of the Port Aransas South Jetty, has a dry sense of humor residing in that beach town. Lord knows we have all needed some levity after this month started so tragically. Dan recently wrote about how police codes are changing and the use of “ten codes” on radios may...

T exas women voted for the first time on July 27, 1918 — 107 years ago. This was before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut...

In the wake of a natural disaster, the instinct to clean up, rebuild and move forward is entirely natural, jumping right in, eager to restore some sen...

Conservation groups call on Texas Legislature to to make sensible changes The recent Guadalupe River floods on the Fourth of July was heartbreaking. W...