We will be voting for Jason Welch for Kyle City Council for a number of reasons – too many to name here. One good reason is that he will be very responsible with other people’s money and doesn’t want us to pay any more taxes than absolutely necessary. Another good reason is that he is completely hon...

Guest Column by PATRICK COX, PEC Director, Dist. 7 Members of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) have a unique opportunity to protect some of the hard won improvements that the board of directors approved this year.  The Member Bill of Rights will provide long-term protection for open meeting...

Letters from Linden by JACK LINDEN One of the great things that happened when we put humans into orbit and eventually on the moon was we saw the earth in space for the first time.  Artists’ depictions of this planet on which we humans live was just not realistic enough.  Then those first pictures fr...

Squeezin’ the Juice by SVEA SAUER Arizona’s recent legislation about immigration is an example of the backward way we approach problems. I lived through Prohibition and saw the Mafia grow in power as a result. We got smart and removed the profit from illegal trafficking in alcohol by abandoning the ...

Capital Highlights by ED STERLING The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama on March 23, requires states to establish within 90 days “high risk pools” for people with a preexisting medical condition who have been uninsured for at least 6 months when they apply....

Kyle City Limits by BRENDA STEWART On this, the eve of the National Day of Prayer, I am staggered by the power of the internet and how fundamentally gullible our society as a whole seems to have become. Evidently, a thinly-veiled insidious attack on Obama went viral last week and millions of people ...

by JEN BIUNDO After the conversion this week to one-way access roads along portions of IH-35, emergency officials say they hope to see a decline in wrecks, such as this collision last week caused when a driver failed to yield to oncoming traffic on the two-way frontage road. (Photo by Jen Biundo) Em...

by SEAN KIMMONS SIMMONS Authorities are on the hunt for a man with a history of mental heath issues and illegal weapons crimes who may be connected to a homicide and home explosion in Buda on April 17. Investigators say Mark David Simmons, 51, is a “person of interest” in the murder investigation. S...

by SEAN KIMMONS Last year, the Hays County Sheriff’s Office began a “cite and release” program to free up space in the overcrowded county jail. But in the following 12 months, no one has tracked how many citations have been issued, making it almost impossible to determine if the program has been a s...

STAFF REPORT A construction worker helps renovate the historic city hall in Kyle. A rededication ceremony will be held this Saturday at 4 p.m. to celebrate the re-opening of the old city hall after $700,000 in renovations. (Photo by Sean Kimmons) The City of Kyle will rededicate its historic city ha...