Google Play App Store
Login
Subscribe
Hays Free Press
  • News
    • Buda
    • Kyle
    • Dripping Springs
    • Wimberley
    • Hays County
    • Community
    • Business
  • Sports
    • Hays Hawks
    • Lehman Lobos
    • Dripping Springs Tigers
    • Wimberley Texans
    • Johnson Jaguars
  • Opinions
    • Columns
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Editorials
  • Obituaries
  • Classifieds
    • Browse Listings
    • Add listing
    • Public Notices
  • Current Issue
    • Special Editions
    • Archives
  • Contact Us
    • Subscribe
    • Rack Locations
    • News
      • Buda
      • Kyle
      • Dripping Springs
      • Wimberley
      • Hays County
      • Community
      • Business
    • Sports
      • Hays Hawks
      • Lehman Lobos
      • Dripping Springs Tigers
      • Wimberley Texans
      • Johnson Jaguars
    • Opinions
      • Columns
      • Letters to the Editor
      • Editorials
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
      • Browse Listings
      • Add listing
      • Public Notices
    • Current Issue
      • Special Editions
      • Archives
    • Contact Us
      • Subscribe
      • Rack Locations
Greenwashing the White House
Columns, Opinions
Greenwashing the White House
By Will.Durst 
July 24, 2019
I n a recent speech by the president, the former golf resort magnate claimed his administration had done more for the environment than any other presidency, ever. Yes, he did. He said that. Out loud. He trotted out some facts and figures and studies to support his wacky assertions and managed to con...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns
A few predictions for 2018
By Will.Durst 
January 10, 2018
ime for a few choice words for the not-so-dearly departed year of 2017. And those words are... “You sucked. Go away. Stay there. Keep it moving odd numbered year. Don’t linger. No dawdling. Forget about sticking around to watch us shudder whenever the sight of something orange triggers a flashback. ...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns
Top 10 comedic news stories of 2017
By Will.Durst 
December 28, 2017
ut down the nog. Let in the dog. Delay your spouse’s jog. Buy a mask for the smog. Alert the press in Prague. Because the eagerly awaited list of Top Ten Comedic News Stories of the Year has finally arrived. It truly is... the most wonderful time of the year. But first, a word of caution: these stor...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns
No means no
By Will.Durst 
December 6, 2017
n avalanche of revelations concerning public figures engaging in various sexual assaults has tumbled down upon our heads, and the airwaves are consumed with accusations, recriminations, equivocations and ethical gyrations, not to mention the threat of career annihilations. And it couldn’t happen to ...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns
It’s beginning to look a lot like Watergate
By Will.Durst 
November 15, 2017
he initial grand jury indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation have dropped like a box of rocks and include something called “Conspiracy against the United States.” It sounds like “fake news” the same way “flesh-eating bacteria” sounds like a prescription. Conspiracy is only one...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns
Snowflakes want me to be nicer to Trump
By Will.Durst 
July 5, 2017
need to stop and thank all the nice folk who’ve been kind enough to take time from their busy schedules to provide this column with some constructive criticism. By the way, moron is spelled with two Os, idiot doesn’t have an E and using all caps is frankly, rather rude. It seems a segment of my loya...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns
Was Trump bitten by a radioactive spider?
By Staff Report 
May 31, 2017
By Will Durst D onald John Trump is keeping people busy. He’s got staffers, lawyers, streaming news alert editors, impeachment historians, ethics investigators, hair spray manufacturers, Putin watchers and real-estate interpreters, who all frantically flapping and squawking like a flock of seagulls ...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Bad hair wars between nations
Columns
Bad hair wars between nations
By Staff Report 
May 3, 2017
nterprising entrepreneurs out there might want to invest in a fleet of tractor backhoes and partial ownership of a limestone quarry, because it’s starting to look like bunker-digging time in America. The threat of nuclear war is spiking like the needle of a meat thermometer on a lava-flow. It won’t ...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Columns, Opinions
Odd similarities between Trump and Clinton
By Staff Report 
August 29, 2016
O ur quadrennial presidential sweepstakes regularly provides textbook studies in contrast. And 2016 raises the bar in disparity. Red and blue. Left and right. Hot and cold. Up and down. Good and bad. Boy and girl. Pro and con. Loud and soft. Rain or shine. Fish and fowl. Dumb and dumber. Perhaps the...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Odd similarities between Trump and Clinton
By Staff Report 
August 24, 2016
O ur quadrennial presidential sweepstakes regularly provides textbook studies in contrast. And 2016 raises the bar in disparity. Red and blue. Left and right. Hot and cold. Up and down. Good and bad. Boy and girl. Pro and con. Loud and soft. Rain or shine. Fish and fowl. Dumb and dumber. Perhaps the...
Read More
{"website":"website"}
Most Read
Mom claims Hays CISD could have done more to prevent child endangerment
Buda, Hays County, News
Mom claims Hays CISD could have done more to prevent child endangerment
By Brittany Kelley 
April 30, 2025
BUDA — After discovering that her son’s former teacher was arrested for public intoxication, Christina Nichols was left wishing Hays CISD did more to ...
Kyle Police investigate fatal crash on IH-35 near Yarrington Road
Breaking News, Hays County, Kyle, ...
Kyle Police investigate fatal crash on IH-35 near Yarrington Road
By Staff Report 
March 18, 2025
KYLE – The Kyle Police Department is investigating a fatal collision that occurred at approximately 2 a.m. March 18 on southbound IH-35 near Yarringto...
Joint operation leads to more than 40 arrests in Hays County
Hays County, News
Joint operation leads to more than 40 arrests in Hays County
By Staff Report 
April 2, 2025
AUSTIN — A joint investigation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the San Antonio Poli...
Three-car collision leaves one dead
Dripping Springs, Main, News
Three-car collision leaves one dead
By Staff Report 
March 12, 2025
DRIPPING SPRINGS – A three-car collision left a 79-year-old woman dead March 1. At approximately 6:45 p.m., the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS...
{"epopulate_editorials":"Epopulate"}
Former Dripping Springs Middle School teacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography
Breaking News, Dripping Springs, Hays County, ...
Former Dripping Springs Middle School teacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography
By Staff Report 
April 30, 2025
SAN MARCOS — Hays County District Judge Sherri K. Tibbe sentenced Kevin McLean, 33, to a total of 60 years in prison April 29; McLean entered a plea o...
e-Edition
Read Hays Free Press
e-Edition
Read News-Dispatch
ePaper
google_play
app_store
Hays Free Press

haysfreepress.com
113 W. Center St.
Kyle, Texas 78640
Phone: 512-268-7862
Email: news@haysfreepress.com

Stay tuned with us

Copyright © Barton Publications. All rights reserved.