Opinion

Body I attended a meeting with the Deputy Director of Gobbledygook — and his interpreter — to learn why government rules, regulations and guidance documents are so hard to read and understand.

Body Dear Editor, I think it is time I extend a huge thank you to Fort Stockton for their amazing support for M2M (marathon 2 marathon) each year for many years.

Body Both the Texas House and Senate have passed a middecade redistricting bill that positions the GOP to pick up five additional congressional seats next year. Passage came after House Democrats ended their quorum-breaking walkout while still vowing to pursue legal challenges.

Body “Wouldn’t miss it for the world.” “Let me check my calendar.” “Meh.” “You mean I still haven’t outlived all those #@%& low-lifes?” As you doubtless know, those are the four main responses when a class reunion invitation arrives.

Body Dear Editor, My phone was ringing off the hook Tuesday by people who wanted to attend the regularly scheduled hospital Board meeting. They were being turned away at the door that only hospital employees are allowed.

Body Dear Editor, My name is Travis Dimler - I live and work on a ranch in the Glass Mountains in northern Brewster County.

Body With a quorum-breaking number of House Democrats still out of state, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gaveled the first special session to an end Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott immediately called a second special session that has already convened.

Body “Hear that lonesome whippoorwill/ He sounds too blue to fly/ The midnight train is whining low…” – Hank Williams Among the books I mean to get around to reading is Neil Ansell’s “The Edge of Silence: In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature.

Body CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove 13 of the more than 50 House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum and effectively halt the special session to prevent a mid-decade redistricting plan, the Austin...

Body Pay no attention to the seemingly frozen clock in sixth-period trigonometry class. Time is moving way too swiftly.