Opinion

Body As the newest statewide elected official in Austin, I expected a learning curve, but 2021 has surprised even this old rodeo cowboy.

Body When spring arrives, I can hardly wait for fresh strawberries to arrive in the supermarkets, and look forward to preparing all the delicious food items with the strawberries. The harvest of the month for May is strawberries.

Body Have you ever heard someone say, or maybe you yourself have said, “I don’t need to go to church. God and I have it all worked out?” Do you believe that you are a follower of Christ and believe the Scriptures to be true? Years ago I myself was fond of saying both of these things.

Body Dear Neil: My variegated olive plants (not sure of the name) look like they’re dying. I could trim out the dead wood, but it provides my privacy. There is a vine growing in a portion of it. I have cut that out. I don’t know if it was involved.

Body It’s time for another installment of “Places you should go before you can’t tell a presidential executive order document from one of your White House German Shepherd’s training pads!” Yes, recently my wife and three teenage daughters took a week-long family trip to Charleston, S.

Body It seems odd to still be discussing Winter Storm Uri in May, more than two months after it battered Texas, but that is what the Texas Legislature is doing. The storm caused severe electrical and natural gas disruptions that crippled transportation and supply chains.

Body As a ray of light is appearing through what has seemed like a very long, dark winter, I’ve learned through challenges and hardships that we can emerge with dignity and new knowledge about what we can endure and how we can triumph.

Body I’ve been hacked. Officially.

Body The cost of construction materials has gone through the roof - if you can still afford a roof, which isn’t very affordable right now. All I wanted to do was build a modest roof over my modest deck at my modest house.

Body The federal government awarded a $530 million migrant services contract to Endeavors, a Texas nonprofit that recently hired a Biden transition team official. Coincidence?