Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation redrawing Texas’ congressional map on Friday. A lawsuit challenging the redrawn districts as being racially discriminatory was filed even before the bill became law. The Texas Tribune reported that the redrawn map, which could give Republicans five additional cong...

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. Catastrophic flooding reminds us of its deadly nature and drought may parch our land, but still, most of us don’t truly understand where our dayto- day w...

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 personality of its owner. In 1975, Guich Koock bought the dilapidated Krauskopf Bros. building at 312 West Main Street in Fredericksburg (today Hondo’...

I’ll be honest. The last week of summer saw our family worn out, fatigued from the busyness of a week at church camp and a trip, and sapped by the hea...

Gerrymandering I have heard a lot about gerrymandering in the news, with regard to the Texas Democrats that fled the state to avoid a quorum and preve...

With a quorum-breaking number of House Democrats still out of state, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gaveled the first special session to an ...