New beginnings

by Renae Brumbaugh  On my mother’s refrigerator there’s a picture of me, age 4, sitting on an oversized Easter bunny at our local shopping mall. I’m wearing a yellow dress and black patentleather shoes.

Littlefield gave UT more than the Texas relays

by Bartee Hailie  The first-ever Texas Relays, a co-creation of University of Texas track coach Clyde Littlefield and athletic director Theo Bellmont, were held in Austin on Mar. 27, 1925.

Paxton seeks halt to regional haze rules

Ed Sterling -Capital Highlights-   Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on March 18 asked an appeals court to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from implementing new regional haze regulations until a trial of the state’s pending lawsuit challenging the new rules.

Thinking big

Lynette Sowell -My front porch-   You can’t just send a toy up into space...or can you? Most of us keep pretty busy with the usual stuff of life: work, family, kids, pets, household “stuff,” etc. We don’t wonder about things like that.

The End of Reagan Nostalgia?

Rich Lowry -- Column --   If there’s anything we thought we knew about the GOP, it is that it is the party of Reagan.

Used

Renae Brumbaugh -- Coffee Talk --   Did you know that Americans make up approximately 5% of the world’s population, but we generate 30% of the world’s garbage? I confess. I think about 25% of that may come from my son’s room.   According to one study, each year U. S.

Full 5th Circuit to hear Texas voter ID case

Ed Sterling -Capital Highlights-   The entire U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will review Texas’ controversial voter identification law.   A majority of the judges of the Fifth Circuit on March 9 voted in support of an “en banc” rehearing of oral arguments in Veasey v.

More than just a pretty face

Lynette Sowell -My front porch-   I only lived in the city of my birth for the first six months of my life. I heard stories of the walk-up, brick apartment building where my parents and I lived until we moved to Puerto Rico in 1968.

Throwing a rope

Renae Brumbaugh -- Coffee Talk --   I’ve said it before, but I can’t help repeating myself. Country living comes with some interesting moments. Like today, when Superman and I had to do some work in the middle of the pond.

Welcome to Europe

Rich Lowry -- Column --   Donald Trump will never be mistaken for a cosmopolitan, but he will bring a distinctively European flavor to the 2016 presidential election, should he win the Republican nomination.