From Enterprise Staff Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced this week that his office received more than 500 applications for financial assistance from rural law enforcement offices requesting …
By Tom Purcell You had a great 100-year run, AM radio, and your demise is breaking my heart. According to the Wall Street Journal, carmakers such as Tesla, Volvo and BMW are no longer …
By Ikram MohamenTexas Tribune A new poll indicates that more than half of Texas GOP primary voters are displeased with members of the state House who voted against school vouchers last year. …
By Chris Edwardsnews@tylercountybooster.com Pop culture figureheads are by no means strangers to bizarre, and sometimes funny, rumors circulating around the populace. Think of the old days when …
By Chris Edwardsnews@tylercountybooster.com Pop culture figureheads are by no means strangers to bizarre, and sometimes funny, rumors circulating around the populace. Think of the old days when …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com Saturday was my mother’s birthday. She passed in 2012, but I still think of her daily, and part of the reason for that actually is spurred on by …
By Tom Purcell According to the password managing company NordPass, the most commonly used passwords of 2023 are embarrassingly simpleminded. The most popular password was “123456.” …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com While you were busy looking up the phrase “thirst trap” and wondering what that has to do with Martha Stewart, there were other shenanigans going …
By Michael G. Maness ~NEWLINE~ ~NEWLINE~In August of last year, I joined over a hundred other Texas professional chaplains in signing a letter opposing a law that would use school safety funds to …
By Elwood Watson Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com Sometimes my need to rummage through the cut-rate news bins leaves me with a deep sadness, mostly because it reaffirms my belief that the ship of …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com Sometimes my need to rummage through the cut-rate news bins leaves me with a deep sadness, mostly because it reaffirms my belief that the ship of …
By Dr. James L. Snyder Since I have reached a certain age, I cannot reveal that age; my energy seems limited. I don’t have the energy I once had. Where it has gone, I have not discovered yet. …
By Dr. James L. Snyder Since I have reached a certain age, I cannot reveal that age; my energy seems limited. I don’t have the energy I once had. Where it has gone, I have not discovered yet. …
By Chris Edwards The almanac predicted an “unseasonably cold winter,” and as I write this, it’s sho’nuff colder than a well digger’s something, somewhere here in deep East Texas. …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com In his latest political raspberry to the U.S. government, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has channeled his inner Davy Crockett regarding the influx of illegal …
By Tom Purcell I forgot what it was like to experience a good old common cold. Prior to covid, you see, the cold-getting experience went like this: I’d wake with a stuffy nose and scratchy …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com In his latest political raspberry to the U.S. government, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has channeled his inner Davy Crockett regarding the influx of illegal …
By Pete SessionDistrict 17 Representative Last week, I joined Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and a Congressional delegation in Eagle Pass to observe firsthand the crisis on our southern …
By Tony Farkastony@polkcountypublishing.com Pretty much only history buffs or people of an advanced age like me will remember the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Sen. Joseph McCarthy …
