I want to compliment our new Mayor Lucy Johnson and Council member Russ Huebner for their refreshing ideas on financing city services expansion from savings instead of borrowed money. Fiscal discipline is a difficult goal in these days of credit-fueled spending sprees, but credit is only going to ge...

Recently, my mind has been preoccupied on the political debates, nationally. As I look at both sides of issues I cringe, asking myself the question “is our political system supposed to be this way?” With all of the misleading statements it is very difficult to know who we can trust, and see how we c...

I can’t believe they did it again. The U.S. Census Bureau seems intent on saving the post office from their financial woes. I just received a post card telling me to fill out my form and mail it back. Actually, I filled out the form and mailed it back a week ago, so the Bureau would have had my resp...

EDITORIAL Elections seem to come around every few months in these parts, and with that we want to reiterate our letters policy. We do not print letters – whether pro or con – in the Hays Free Press edition immediately before an election. With Kyle’s regular election as well as the Hays CISD school b...

Kyle City Limits by BRENDA STEWART When I landed in Kyle I was totally lost. It had been a long journey, figuring out where to move my family after we had outgrown our little wooden house in downtown Austin. We had to make a break for it and this tiny town on the railroad tracks offered a respected ...

Young-at-Large by JOHN YOUNG Canard – n. (etymology: French for duck) a fake or unfounded report or story, especially: a fabricated report; a groundless rumor or belief. They crammed health care reform down our throats. Yes. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and a decisive majority of Democrats ran for office...

by SEAN KIMMONS Kyle residents offer input into the city’s comprehensive plan, which will guide future growth. (Photo by Sean Kimmons) Transforming Kyle’s Center Street railroad crossing from an eyesore to a rail plaza adorned with a gateway monument, constructing a circular loop road system around ...

by BRAD ROLLINS HARRIS San Marcos police have arrested a high school teacher accused of having sex with his 18-year-old student on school grounds. William Shawn Harris, a teacher and assistant coach at San Marcos High School, faces six felony counts of an improper relationship with a student relatin...

by JEN BIUNDO Members of the group BudaFirst are taking their fight against the U.S. Foodservice development all the way to the state Supreme Court. Seeking to halt construction of the proposed distribution facility east of Buda in the Sunfield development, the attorneys for plaintiffs Jim Hollis an...

by BRAD ROLLINS It has been said often enough by now that it’s conventional wisdom if not cliché: Hays County is a solidly purple county – that is, comparable parts Republican red and Democratic blue. Perhaps never before has the truth been more starkly contrasted than in 2010, when two Hays County ...