Editorial

A riot of blue

By Lynette Sowell. Take almost any highway or back road in central Texas this time of year, and you’ll see the hill country showing off her colors. Green, green pastures dotted with darker green cedar bushes and occasional bramblylooking live oak trees.

Of naïve reporters

By Willis Webb. Life’s been just full of fun and funny things for me. And, when you aspire to being a “story-teller,” then you feel someone is rolling out the red carpet when a funny story evokes a column via your keyboard.

Showing off

By Renae Brumbaugh   I think God likes to show off. I hope that doesn’t sound disrespectful . . . but it’s true.

First Amendment is such a nuisance

By Rich Lowry   Every time the Supreme Court rules in favor of the First Amendment in a campaign-finance case, the left recoils in disgust. The court’s 5-4 decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is the latest occasion for the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.

Back in the day

By Willis Webb   Once upon a time, as all good adventure tales begin, I sought “interesting characters” to write about. And, as I had read, witnessed in movies and thus believed, about all “good writers,” I looked for them in establishments that served sudsy brews.

Infrastructure ain’t sexy...

By Lynette Sowell   ...but I love what it can do. Take a simple, mundane action like flushing the toilet.

Changes

By Renae Brumbaugh   I’ve been sucked in. A few years ago, I declared I’d never fall prey to the hightech gadget craze that seemed to devour people’s lives.

Obamacare’s false assurance

By Rich Lowry   A core competency of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is issuing false assurances. An administration about-face has left the Cabinet official looking like the Baghdad Bob of American health insurance. When Rep.

That would never happen here

by Lynette Sowell   Why do we think if we ignore something, it’ll go away? If a problem like mental illness doesn’t affect us directly, it’s easy to ignore. Not part of my life? Well, it’s not part of my world. It’s easy to think that way and go about our own business.

State responds to Fort Hood shooting

by Ed Sterling   AUSTIN — A Fort Hood soldier brought a civilian semiautomatic pistol to the sprawling military post 60 miles north of the Capitol city on April 2 and opened fire, killing three fellow service members and wounding 16 others before turning the .45-caliber weapon on himself.