Seems like we just got done with an election, and we’re on to another election. Wait. That’s actually what has happened. However, this time, we’re choosing between the top two winners …
“Circus-tent con-men and southern belle bunnies milk your emotions then they steal your money.” – Dead Kennedys, “Moral Majority” Is there a less amusing reality show in existence …
A word that has taken on much more significance lately is conflation — the merging of two or more distinct sets of information, ideas, or texts into a single, often erroneous, whole. It acts as a …
What a time to be alive! With our country barreling headfirst toward a recession (folks, it’s a matter of when and not “if”); gas prices up to a national average I don’t care to state …
It’s almost May, so that means it’s time for the annual I-really-don’t-have-a-column-idea-so-let’s-make-fun-of-things column. Not that there’s not something to write about, what with …
Each year, Earth Day is celebrated, as it was last Wednesday, April 22. On this particular day, designated as such in 1970, we should ask ourselves an often difficult question: have we done enough …
A couple of weeks ago, I posited that there needs to be some sort of ability for the voters to hold elected officials and the judiciary accountable for their actions. I don’t mean that in a …
Big tech is coming for East Texas, coming to pilfer its resources and siphon off value from it. By now I’m sure all of you have heard, or read, some rumblings someplace about data centers, and …
One or two of you may remember a time, back in the ‘60s, when the country was united in its passion to win the space race. The USSR had put Yuri Gagarin into space, the first human to orbit …
In 2007, I was called into a meeting with the publisher and not one but three HR reps, one local, one regional and one corporate, to be told that I was being laid off. I had worked in that …
It feels like these tribute pieces are a too-frequent occurrence these days. The news that the first lady of the arts scene in Woodville, Judith Haney, had passed on last Monday, still …
“They have removed the struggle to find anything. Bookstore owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you’d go in this dusty old place, and they might point you toward …
I’m fresh off of not watching the finale of “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” which has been running on Paramount, I think. This, of course, is because I have been adamantly not …
First and foremost, this isn’t any kind of endorsement, or even an anti-endorsement, of a candidate, because I won’t do that, nor does Polk County Publishing permit that. I believe that the …
James Talarico, an Austin area legislator in the state’s lower chamber, is suddenly cast into the role of MAGA villain, par excellence, following his primary victory against congresscritter …
In September 2001, I was at a conference in Dallas, which was the beginning of our newspaper group’s embrace of the internet and what it could mean for the news industry. On the second day of …
As if flying wasn’t frustrating enough nowadays, headlines last week proclaimed how long security lines at major airports. Reportedly, passengers at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston were told to …
As if flying wasn’t frustrating enough nowadays, headlines last week proclaimed how long security lines at major airports. Reportedly, passengers at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston were told to …
If the latest election has taught us anything, is that our vote, which I’m a big, big fan of, is rapidly becoming less and less meaningful, becoming instead as set piece in the drama that is …
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for several decades now, has positioned itself as the ultimate keeper of the flame of rock music history, even pre-dating the I.M. Pei pyramid in Cleveland, Ohio, that …
