Supreme Court throws Republicans double life preserver: upholding ObamaCare and legalizing same-sex marriage

Texas Politics

Whether the Republicans realize it, the U.S. Supreme Court has just thrown them a double life preserver, by chilling two of the hottest political potatoes GOP candidates faced going into the 2016 elections. Republican politicians, especially in Texas, have been pretty much in lockstep opposing both financial subsidies to low-income people to help pay for insurance under the Affordable Care […]

Three Flat

On the Edge of Common Sense

Now everyone I ever knew that did much work with stock has spent some time in practice throwin’ houlihans at rocks. And be they real cowboys or pretenders with a hat, all dream of ropin’ just one steer in three point nothin’ flat! Now me, I’m not much diff’ernt, I do a little dreamin’, and my dream is usually pleasant […]

FLASHBACK: Jet crashes at Crown; pilot chutes to safety



60 Years ago- A Kelly AFB pilot parachuted to safety after his stricken F-86 Sabre Jet crashed in flames on the T.B. (Bud) Mallard ranch, eight miles northwest of Charlotte, about 2 o’clock this afternoon. The pilot, 2nd Lieutenant Roger D. Peterson, 21, Sheboygan, Wis., landed two miles north of the crash scene. He walked to a nearby farm house […]

Community cemeteries, memorials, all-day ‘sangin’s

Writer’s Roost

No one likes to dwell on death. Well, with tongue firmly in cheek, maybe funeral directors and perpetual care cemetery owners. Perhaps this written undertaking (ahem, there goes the tongue again) can resurrect some memories of those who, like me, grew up in small communities or, as some are wont to say, “the country.” To those who’ve never resided anywhere […]

Fire Ants Q&A



Q. Tell us again about the two-step strategy to control fire ants. They seem to be especially visible and vicious this year. A. Fire ant populations increase when plenty of moisture is available in the landscape. Wet soils also force them to build more visible mounds. The two-step control method calls for the use of a fastacting insecticide such as […]

Texas preliminary April, 2015 crude oil production shared

2,319,858 barrels daily compared to 2,043,461 in April, 2014 Oil & Gas Editor

Karnes County, with 6,503,269 barrels of oil (BBLS), led four counties in the Eagle Ford Shale that were the top crude oil producers in the State of Texas in preliminary figures for the month of April. TEXAS MONTHLY OIL AND GAS STATISTICS 06/25/2015 MAY PERMITS TO DRILL The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 916 original drilling permits […]

PLEASANTON CHAMBER’S TASTE OF ATASCOSA WINNERS



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Widow, fellow soldiers remember Ricardo Ruiz



Like many combat veterans, Ricardo Ruiz of Whitsett rarely spoke about everything he had gone through. He passed away on May 26, 2015, from complications due to agent orange. As his widow Raquel Ruiz shared at her husband’s funeral, “I want to share something with all of you, that I have kept with me for a long time. I know […]

Kids College at Coastal Bend



The Coastal Bend College recently held its Kids College Camp, a two week program this year, with emphasis on different careers. Each day, the children learned about a specific career from a speaker in the field and then completed a project or visited a mobile learning unit. Some of the careers covered were nursing, marine biologist, construction, artist and STEM […]