Opinion

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.

Body CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Texas Democrats left the state Sunday in hopes of derailing a mid-decade redistricting plan, The Dallas Morning News reported. State Rep.

Body “For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name/ There is booze, there is booze…” – apologies to Paul Stookey According to the Wall Street Journal, six percent of couples polled by wedding-planning website Zola will host a completely alcohol-free wedding in 2025.

Body Dear Editor, Nearly a year after Fort Stockton’s historic downtown district was thrust into a oneway traffic experiment, the City Council is now confronting a growing wave of public discontent, with residents and business owners demanding clarity, accountability, and change.

Body CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS The number of people still missing in the July 4 Kerr County flood dropped to two after another body was recovered last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Body “And we was too broke to even pay heed/But that’s how it is when you’re po’ folks.” – Bill Anderson. I was intrigued by a recent USA Today article about “poorpeople” habits (i.e.