As a public-private non-profit organization, the Greater San Marcos Partnership (GSMP) utilizes both public and private sector dollars to support the work we do to bring new jobs to Hays and Caldwell counties. This means that the counties and cities in our region, together with more than 100 compani...

Publisher’s Note: This column first ran on Juneteenth on Facebook. Today’s numbers: 60%. 155. 2020. That’s three-fifths – what the original Constitution established as the value of enslaved people (all black) relative to citizens (almost all white); 155 years since slavery was declared dead in Texas...

I n 2012, an unidentified lady and I sat next to each other at a Hays Consolidated School District Board (HCISD) meeting. We stood to speak on opposite sides of a volatile issue: display of the Confederate flag at Jack C. Hays High School. She spoke in support of flag displays, sharing that her grea...

W hen I began teaching at Hays High School in 2008, the Confederate flag had just recently been removed from the school. It would not be officially banned from the school until 2012, and the fight song would not be changed until 2016. Of the flag, the song, and the mascot, only the mascot remains, a...

By Margaret Spellings The economic calamity caused by the novel coronavirus is creating a surge in young adults with uncertain futures. Many have lost jobs or job offers, and others may leave higher education and their schooling because they can no longer afford it. Our state’s vast and diverse syst...

What The Bogota Post got right about America before COVID-19 rings just as true during the pandemic – maybe even more true. In a May 2019 article, “The List of Things Americans Take for Granted,” the newspaper examined some of the freedoms and blessings that too many Americans forget they have. Amid...

The murder hornets don’t stand a chance. We’re still amid a pandemic that has dragged on way too long, producing far too many bizarre, exaggerated doomsday scenarios on social media. Some of our political leaders are enjoying absolute power a little too absolutely. Conspiracy theorists claim Bill Ga...

We are, undoubtedly, experiencing a watershed moment in American history. Throughout the history of this nation, when faced with difficult circumstances, the greatest of us rise to occasion. Today, those are our health care professionals. These individuals, putting their lives on the line every day ...

We need to get through this time and tighten our belts, just as we have through two World Wars, terrorist attacks and other epidemics Newspapers in the United States have traveled rough seas to the First Amendment freedoms we enjoy today. From the colonial Stamp Act through wartime censorship to tod...

“Enough!” President Trump admonished CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as she pressed for answers during Monday’s contentious coronavirus briefing. With daily feuding between Trump and media boiling over, stressed Americans should be forgiven if they, too, have had enough. The president clearly relishes the bri...