Let’s adhere to County Judge’s tax rate budget For the first time in recent history, we have a County Judge that submitted a “no tax increase budget” in an attempt to provide relief to Hays County residents. Now we get to watch other elected officials attempt to undermine that budget, and force a pr...

Masks in schools: whose freedom is really threatened? The science is not in dispute. Masks work to combat community spread of COVID-19. Instead, anger has flared up around the concept of freedom. Somehow, the small act of wearing a protective mask to keep our school kids safe has been framed as a to...

It’s a woman’s choice Thank you for printing Ellen Braverman’s letter about being pro-abortion. I’m uncomfortable with the use of “pro” or “anti” relating to abortion because it is so simple to not look at the complete situation when calling a woman who makes a very difficult choice a murderer. My p...

In Response to Karen Depwe’s letter to the editor “Thinking about Life” June 9, 2021 issue I am Pro Abortion because I am thinking about life. I am thinking of this new mother and her recently newly born child. I am thinking beyond the critical birth and wondering if this new mother would be able to...

Don’t blame Dems Governor Abbott and the Republican-controlled Texas legislature had five months in the regular session to pass a bill giving Texas’ retired teachers a “13th” check or a permanent Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), five months during which the Republicans refused to even move the bill...

End illegal organ harvesting Dear Editor, Governor Abbott recently signed Senate Concurrent Resolution 3, which condemns the practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.   I want to publicly thank Senators Donna Campbell and Judith Zaffirini from the Hays County area fo...

Think about the life After reading the almost 4 half page columns of the article “Local woman reflects on abortion law changes” in the June 2 paper, I have to acknowledge the truth that hardship exists.   Some of these hardships are due to our own choices and some thrust upon us by circumstances. No...

RE: CHANGE TAKES ACTION   I found “The Kyle File” from May 5th’s edition quite pedantic and browbeating. Yes. People “care.” I put care in quotes because the author seems to think that the heart of a community can be measured in voter turnout. That is a truly fallacious conclusion to draw. 80+ perce...

Cartoon was appropriate My opinion for what it’s worth: I found the cartoon printed on the newspaper on April 21, 2021, very appropriate. This is the cartoonist’s point of view. We all have to live with our own conscience. If we take everything in a negative concept, hate will prevail. If, and only ...

In support of PDO On March 30, the Hays County Commissioner’s Court voted unanimously on a prudent measure to bring greater justice to our legal system: to submit a letter of intent to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission conveying our county’s pursuit of a Public Defender’s Office (PDO). This stat...