Editorials

YOU DON'T HAVE TO PLEDGE LOYALTY TO A BROKEN SYSTEM

Thursday, June 4, 2026

The results out of Texas last week told us something most of us already knew but didn't want to say out loud: the two-party system is broken. The primary process that's supposed to give voters a choice has instead handed us a slate of candidates that even the most loyal voters I know can't stomach.

Accountability Is Either a Standard or a Slogan

Patricia Hurt Publisher

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Senator Charles Perry wrote a column last week calling for fairness, proportionality, due process, and consistent standards from an institution he believes has failed to live up to them.He was talking about the NCAA.The principles, though, travel. Perry’s argument has merit.

HIKING THE PALO DURO

Tumbleweed Smith

Thursday, June 4, 2026

My first few trips to the Palo Duro Canyon State Park were to interview Margaret Harper who organized the musical TEXAS, on stage annually June through August in the park’s Pioneer Amphitheater. The show is now in its 60th year. Most of those early interviews were done in Margaret’s home.

Old Glory News

Anita Dozier

Thursday, May 28, 2026

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. I sure do enjoy the cloudy, cooler weather and the little showers of rain. We cannot seem to get much at a time but we are truly glad to get every drop we get.Maybe we will get more before it is all over.

SENIOR TRAVEL DISCOUNTS: HOW TO SAVE ON YOUR NEXT TRIP

News Staff

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Dear Savvy Senior, My husband and I are retiring later this year and hope to travel more while we’re still healthy and active. Our budget will be tighter, so every dollar counts. Are there worthwhile senior travel discounts you can tell us about, and at what age do they begin?

VISA DELAYS LEAVE TEXAS FARMERS SHORT FOR PLANTING SEASON

News Staff

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Texas producers are entering the 2026 planting season without the H-2A guest workers they spent months trying to bring across the border.

A.I. DOESN’T ATTEND MEETINGS AND RECORDS DON’T REPORT THEMSELVES

Jeff Hurt - Editor

Thursday, May 28, 2026

If you want entertainment, you have seemingly limitless options: Cable, network TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube… the list goes on and on. If you want answers, you have fewer places to turn.

WHAT THE PANHANDLE KNOWS ABOUT LIVING ON THE MARGINS

Suzanne Bellsnyder

Thursday, May 28, 2026

A WATER HOSE AGAINST THE WIND:My best friend's father lost his home this week.The entire house — gone in a few minutes. A spark, forty-mile-an-hour winds, drought-cured grass, and that was it. They tried to fight it with a garden hose. They escaped with the clothes on their backs.

THE HISTORIAN OF ROUTE 66 IN TEXAS

Tumbleweed Smith

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Delbert Treu ranches near the panhandle town of Alanreed on the old Route 66, now IS 40. He and his wife Ruth founded the Devil’s Rope Museum in nearby McLean in 1991. It’s a Western Heritage museum full of barbed wire items.

Faces & Places

Meg Gruben

Thursday, May 28, 2026

“But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item.