[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s strange who you run into driving across the vast expanse of Texas.

My family and I were on our way to a Colorado vacation last week when I ran into a friend.

I stopped in my tracks when I ran into the Texas Press Association Chairman Randy Mankin. He owns The Eldorado Success and he and his wife were doing the same thing – heading up to the mountains to get a quick break from the Texas heat and the unending news cycle.

Randy and I hugged and talked a bit, and the...