Mercy Me

Green   I looked in the rearview mirror at the police car pulling into the street behind me. Oh, please God, don’t let him be coming after me.   I turned.   He turned.   I pulled into the parking lot.   He pulled into the parking lot.   I parked.

Attorney General intervenes in ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ lawsuit

Ed Sterling   Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Dec. 15 intervened in a lawsuit filed on behalf of nurse’s aide Dedra Shannon against the Killeen Independent School District over its decision to take down Shannon’s Christmas decoration.

Stories that stick with me

Lynette Sowell   Every year the LeaderPress publishes 104 issues that contain news about all kinds of things in the community. Hundreds of stories about people and things and ideas, big and small.

What I Never Knew

Renae Brumbaugh Green   At a recent family dinner, my sister-in-law handed me a baby shoe. My baby shoe, to be exact. She’d found it in a box of stuff that had been in storage for who-knows-how-long. The other one is probably still out there somewhere, wondering where its buddy is.

The Party of Workers

Rich Lowry   In the course of a couple of tweets, Donald Trump may have ended the image of the GOP as the party of corporate America.

Abbott reacts to Trump’s choice of Perry as energy secretar

Ed Sterling President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Rick Perry as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy prompted this reaction by Gov.

What’s News?

Lynette Sowell When you’re a kid, one of the first disappointments you learn is that the world is not very impressed with anything big that happens in your little world.   I think that’s true now more than ever. I still remember the “So?

The Perfect Christmas

Renae Brumbaugh   On my hearth, there’s a mis-matched nativity scene. It includes four wise men of various sizes, two shepherds, two Marys, one baby Jesus, a Renaissance girl carrying a turkey and a basket of grapes (where did she come from?), a horse, a cow, and a sheep. There is no Joseph.

To kill a pipeline

Rich Lowry   One of the Obama administration’s core competencies is suspending pipeline projects with no cause.   It will leave office with another notch in its belt, now that the Army Corps of Engineers has acted to block a final piece of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Abbott nominates Racing Commission chair as secretary of state

Ed Sterling   Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Rolando Pablos of El Paso to succeed Secretary of State Carlos Cascos, effective Jan. 5.   Pablos has served as chair of the Texas Racing Commission, the state agency that regulates pari-mutuel racing, since December 2015.