We screwed up. Plain and simple. There was no malice behind it … just a lack of forethought, as all fellow humans are occasionally prone to. The entire staff of Polk County …
Two of music history’s most celebrated genuine geniuses died within the span of a couple of days recently. One had been out of the public eye for so long that many probably thought he’d …
There’s a great deal of ink spilled through the years about the friendship between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill. The two-term Republican president and the Democratic …
A lot of hay has been made as of late over the dropping approval of the job done by President Donald Trump during the first five months into his second term. Most outlets have reported a …
Among the dizzying array of news stories to surface in the past several days, regarding the tawdry reality show that the body politic has settled into, one of my favorite old-school slang terms …
Rural America has a severe drug problem. According to figures gleaned from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) 2021 survey on nationwide drug use and …
A guy I admire who wrote by the name of Mark Twain once defined patriotism as “supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Twain’s …
In my last musing in this space, all three of you who read my scrawlings will recall that I spun some thoughts on Bobby Kennedy, Jr.’s outlandish statements on autistic people. That …
I recently replied to a Facebook post a friend made about the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy had claimed that people who eat donuts, drink soft drinks or …
Just when I thought the federal gub’mint, under the watch of Trump-Musk had the supreme hold on idiocy in policy, well, here comes a Texas legislator to buy that old adage about “go big, …
While other states are continuing to legalize and/or decriminalize marijuana, Texas is, you guessed it, taking a big step backward. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who formerly co-owned a group of …
Elon Reeve Musk is good at many things, as he has proven during his decades in the public eye. He’s an ace at seizing upon technologies that wind up running our lives, and he’s also …
Ah, the Washington Post, or “WaPo,” as attention span-deficient culture has shorthanded it in recent decades. It’s only the national paper of record, which under the …
Years ago in my career, I was working for a family-owned newspaper group in New Mexico when there was an economic downturn. The company had recently acquired business partners (BlackRock) in …
I cannot let the retirement of Ofeira Gazzaway pass without publicly acknowledging the part she played in the promotion of Tyler County for nearly 40 years. Her career was spent as the overseer of a …
Rooting out corruption can be tough, especially when laws have been put in place to keep the regular schmoes in line while giving a pass to fearless leaders. For instance, under the guise of …
Last week, if Google Maps is the last word (and it is, since our entire lives are controlled by all things Google), the Gulf of Mexico is now named the Gulf of America. This re-christening is …
The revelations that have come from the shuttering and review of the Obama era USAID program are as eye-opening as they are sad, but there are a few in there that are downright infuriating. Of …
“WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE” – President Donald J. Trump, posted to Truth Social, Feb. 2, 2025 President Donald J. Trump, who was sworn-in …
Like a bad penny or some sort of undesirable, recurring health condition, it’s baaaaack! News came down the legislative pike that the lege’s budget writers are proposing $1 billion …