By Megan Wehring DRIPPING SPRINGS – You never know where life will take you.   Haley Willis Haley Willis, a 2015 graduate of Dripping Springs High School, is in her fourth year on the visual investigations team at the New York Times. She was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes – the most prestigious honor f...

B oy, is our political discourse going to the dogs. The Washington Post reports Donald Trump is the first U.S. president in 100-plus years not to have a dog – though others, including Ronald Reagan, didn’t have dogs until their second terms. During a February rally, reports The Post , Trump said “he...

Every morning I go out to the driveway, pickup my freshly delivered paper copy of the New York Times , and read the news. One must imagine my surprise in turning to the Opinion pages, and seeing my old local paper, The Hays Free Press , quoted as part of mosaic of editorials around the nation condem...

S ome facts are unpleasant. They remain facts. Imagine if county and city officials had been warned in advance before the devastating floods here in 2015 and 2016 – told the floods were coming and told there was a clear solution to avoid the loss of life and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage...