By CJ Vetter BUDA - At the annual Red, White and Buda celebration, Buda residents received a surprise visit from gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. Stopping by for the festivities, Beto also made a point of being in Hays County on July 4 due to its long democratic history. Beto’s arrival in Buda...

Is the bulging field of Democrats seeking the 2020 presidential nomination a sign of strength? Or is it a troubling indication that wresting the presidency from Donald Trump won’t be as easy as it ought to be? At last count there were 23 “major” candidates including seven senators, four members of C...

With a four-plus hour practice in her rear-view mirror Nov. 6, Texas State student and Hays High alumna Abbie Blackwell understood there might be a line when she took to McCormick Middle School to cast her ballot on Election Day. Little did Blackwell realize was that her polling site, Precinct 223, ...

Election notes whispered from the ghost of our former publisher, Bob Barton, who was an inveterate numbers cruncher: Beto O’Rourke won a higher percentage of the vote across Hays County than any Democrat at the top of the ticket in a generation. The county also flipped in its support of Ted Cruz – a...

Desperate times can call for desperate measures and it seems incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz might be getting awfully needy these days. At least that’s the feeling in many circles this week after news broke of Cruz’ recent, and controversial, campaign fundraising mailers. Those mailers, encased in a...

By Katie Burrell and Exsar Arguello Immigration reform and climate change were two of the topics U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke addressed during a packed town hall event at Texas State University Sunday.  The event was the latest stop in O’Rourke’s campaign against incumbent Texas congressman T...

The stage is set for November’s midterm election as Democratic and Republican candidates were chosen  duringing the May 22 primary runoff. Hays County voters will decide on a pair of congressional seats and a state office, along with a handful of other county and local races that will be up for grab...