The U.S.A. recently had another birthday, its 244th, if you begin counting with the Declaration of Independence. The people living here then didn’t th...

My daily walk to the Post Office with Goldie always seems to yield something worth pondering. Ever since May, on through today, I have witnessed the w...

Y’know, if it weren’t for this corona virus, I’d’ve never had learned how many smart folks there are out there using social media. Well, at least on F...

Last week you were part of something nearly miraculous. I’m writing so that when you feel like the world is hopeless and there is just no use trying, ...

That first case of coronavirus in Mountain City is a friend of mine. On Day 12 of her confinement, we chatted back and forth by text. My Mountain City...

Several years ago, when I was new to this newspaper writing business, I wrote a column about the pillaging of the South. No, not by General Sherman du...

Publisher’s Note: This column first ran on Juneteenth on Facebook. Today’s numbers: 60%. 155. 2020. That’s three-fifths – what the original Constituti...

C ontinued from week before last  … Chloe Garza is the 2020 graduate in the Garza household. Going around the block we see two more 2020 Hays High gra...

A much anticipated report reached the governor’s desk on June 27, 1859. It really was true. A special commission confirmed as fact the rumor that whit...

I t was a small misunderstanding.   A little thing, really. The two men were prone on the ground face-first, fearing for their lives. A man with two G...