Some facts are unpleasant. They remain facts. Imagine if county and city officials had been warned in advance before the devastating floods here in 20...

Does Texas have a “Stand Your Ground” law? It sure does, and the  shooting in Clearwater, Florida, last week about a handicapped parking space shows t...

With temperatures hitting 109 degrees this week locally, it is easy to sit inside in an air conditioned office and wish for cooler weather. But drive ...

In the early 1970s, a period of turmoil and division not so very different from now, the owners of this newspaper awoke one morning to find the remnan...

The photo on the front of the Austin American-Statesman Tuesday morning shows a photo of U.S. Border Patrol agents speaking to Central Amercan asylum ...

Do you rely on your local newspaper to keep up with how your tax dollars are being spent? If so, tell your congressman you don’t want a new tariff to ...

Two side-by-side stories in Sunday’s New York Times show just how prevalent school shootings are. One covered the shooting at Sante Fe High School, so...

Runoff elections for congress, governor and other offices are upon us – and many of the races involve people of special interest to Hays County. Early...

In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press ...

Facebook post recently read, “If we throw out all that have sexually harassed or assaulted, how many men would be left?” That sentence implies, “Not m...