HOUSE Today I’m asking readers a question my 10-year-old granddaughter asked me that I cannot answer: Which 10-year period in your life was your least favorite? And which 10-year period would you exchange it for? First of all, I have no idea where this child’s questions come from. She turns 11 this ...

The name J.J. “Jake” Pickle still rings a bell across much of Texas. He served as a U.S. Congressman for more than three decades, but his beginnings were modest. Pickle grew up in Roscoe, near Sweetwater. An Eagle Scout, he graduated from Big Spring High School and earned his B.A. from the Universit...

Cinematic Considerations Obsession with money and power has long served as a dramatic through line for filmmakers seeking cinematic conflict and spectacle. Especially in a post–Occupy Wall Street world, the notion of “eating the rich” as a means of rectifying perceived wrongs has become even more pr...

Cinematic Considerations Like the “Wuthering Heights” protagonist, Catherine Earnshaw, writer/director Emerald Fennell throws caution to the wind with...

Bonnie Stewart will retire as the Harper Independent School District Superintendent after 30 years with the school system. She announced here retireme...

The Rotary Club of Fredericksburg Morning recently donated $17,000 to the Fredericksburg Independent School District’s Education Foundation. “Our Rota...