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Opinion

Support your local fish fry

Editorials

The Lenten season is upon us, and that means the return of fish frys throughout the region. Lent, the 40-day season of prayer and fasting, continues this year until March 30, the day before Easter Sunday. This period of reflection and repentance is meant to help Christians prepare to ...

Shadows

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, The Autumn sun is kind to me. I and my shadow know. I job along the highway, my shadow long and lean. A split-second memory of my teen disappears in the shadows, reappears in the sun, runs forward in front, dips over the hillside, then stands tall and erect accompanying ...

The Public Service Commission needs you

Local Columns

Some of you might remember those old posters where a stern, bearded picture of Uncle Sam looks out solemnly over a caption that says, “I want YOU for U.S. Army.” Like Uncle Sam, I would like to say that the Public Service Commission needs you, too. If you are looking for an interesting ...

Where will all the children go?

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, According to the Jan. 25 edition of the Dallas News, there have been 26.313 forced-birth rape victims in Texas since that state’s total abortion ban has been enacted. Remember in 2021, when Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to eliminate rapists from the streets of Texas after ...

Calendar needs a little updating, in my opinion

Local Columns

On those rare winter days when the temperature somehow finds a way to reach the upper ‘50s or low ‘60s, I say a small, quiet prayer that it will remain permanent until summer. Like so many others, I am so ready for this season to be over. Actually, I was ready for winter to be done ...

Tax ‘error’ cannot happen again

Editorials

Dels. David Kelly, R-Tyler, and Trenton Barnhart, R-Pleasants, were right to loudly express their concern with the enshrinement of a tax calculation process that has proven so flawed it resulted in a $30 million “clerical error” that affected theirs and six other natural gas producing ...