Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

Opinions

Legislature: Top issues remain in play

Only a month is left for lawmakers to get the state’s business done in the 86th regular session of the Texas Legislature. Still unfinished are the issues at the top

One guy is living the Jeopardy! dream

When I was an Arlington firefighter a million years ago – we occasionally drove an open-cab engine! – there were specific things you never did at the fire hall: 1.

Committee seeking to work out budget differences

After Easter weekend, conferees for the Texas House and Senate must work out differences in the two chambers’ versions of a fiscal 2020-2021 state budget to send to Gov. Greg

You should add this to your bucket list

Imagine something with me. You’ve been traveling non-stop all day. Your journey started long before sunrise and you’ve still got a long way to go before you arrive at your

Endeavoring to take it to the limit or Changes in latitude, changes in attitude

Igot caught in a holier-than-thou situation a while back. Another couple, the Bride and I had just made our way out of an outdoors Eagles concert. Jimmy Buffett opened and

Letters to the Editor

There are more pressing issues than the border Dear Editor: The recent media – TV, radio and print – has hyped the “national emergency” on the border (the invasion of

Wanted now: Explorors who won’t grow up

Adulting is hard work. Or, so I have heard. A friend of mine posted recently that if you don’t grow up by age 60, you don’t have to. Woo hoo!

Top officials join together in push for funding solutions for property tax issue

Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt.Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen on April 10 released a joint statement promoting a twofold method for the 86th Texas Legislature to curb property

Is a rap battle looming? It’ll be def, yo!

ON YOUR MARK

Last Christmas, I put together a program at a church party that I thought was pretty funny.

(The Bride wasn’t so crazy about it, but that has never really mattered...)

Our church has been looking for a music minister, so I got some volunteers to “try out for the position” as a famous artist by singing one song of their choosing then the traditional hymn “Bringing in the Sheaths.”

Except that everyone sings the church song wrong; they warble “bringing in the sheep” – much to the consternation and exasperation of the interviewer.

Everybody needs a Betty

LIFE MATTERS

Last night I got to see one of my all-time favorite people.

I met Betty in 1988 when I became her pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

I was fresh out of seminary and went to pastor a church where most of the members were older than my parents. Truth be told, a pretty good number of them were close to the age of my grandparents.