LOOKING BACK AT ... From a distance, the Pontiac “big six” two-door sedan crawling slowly up the bald granite face of Enchanted Rock, looked like a gnat on an ice cream cone. The vehicle made several stops on its way to the summit, not because of any problems, but to give photographers a chance to s...

How time flies. And so does my son. It seems like just yesterday we hugged him at the San Antonio airport upon returning from his year abroad in Germany as a Rotary International foreign exchange student. Last Thursday, we hugged him at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport as he boarded his plane ...

Let’s give it up for the band kids. I saw a bunch of them over the weekend that blew people’s faces off (figuratively, of course). My family and I, along with more than 14,000 other band family members, crowded onto the home side of the Alamodome for the Drum Corps International (DCI) Southwestern C...

On my last weekend in Switzerland, I was given the privilege of touring the Swiss Parliament Building in Bern, similar to the Capitol building in the ...

Since my wife and I moved here from San Antonio a few years ago, we’ve come to appreciate many things about living in a smaller town — things like the...

Two important developments surfaced recently which are huge for our newspaper industry. Both involve issues with big tech — mainly Google and Facebook...