Friends,  Happy 2023! We are well into the new year with a fresh start, but before we know it, we will be in the 2024 Election Season. 2022 was probably the most hateful, dishonest campaign …

Twenty-seven years ago a young sportswriter was so excited to be covering his first “big game.” Isn’t that how we refer to that annual contest that pits the supposedly two best …

“Hail all hail, TCU. Memories sweet, comrades true. Light of faith, follow through. Praise to thee, TCU!” --- TCU Alma Mater by Glenn Canfield 1928 Texas Christian University …

Did you know that our legislature only meets every other year, for less than five months, to enact legislative solutions for the ninth largest economy in the world? After Reconstruction in the …

Tim Buchanan and Steve Wood, architects behind the past 10 Aledo state football championships, are retiring. The announcement came last Friday morning, Jan. 27, a day I thought was going to be spent …

Fifty years ago, responding to public demand in an era of reform, Texas enacted a sweeping law ensuring the people’s right to know about their government. The Texas Public Information Act …

For all the challenges facing Texans, our state government serves the people pretty darned well, especially when compared to the frequent dysfunction in Washington. Having just finished eight …

Our family had never spent a Christmas and New Years outside of Texas but this past year of 2022, because of changes in family circumstances, the whole family went to Heredia, Costa Rica. This …

My great great grandfather, Dr. Edwin Clay Rogers of Fannin County, served in the 5th Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1840-41. He served alongside Sam Houston, who had termed out in his first …

Monday night’s 65-7 loss by the TCU Horned Frogs to the Georgia Bulldogs in college football’s national championship game must have brought back some painful memories for longtime Horned …

As I watched schools from my current and new districts (Albany, Aledo, and Brock) at the UIL High School Football state championships at AT&T Stadium surrounded by 40,000 fans, parents, teachers, …

Never did I think I would see a player die on the field. But I did on Monday, Jan. 2. Thank goodness Damar Hamlin did not stay that way long. He was resuscitated, but as of the writing of this he …

“Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly” …. Mark 9:25. This is definitely a …

We should have known all along how this would end. It’s hard to imagine a team that had won nine state championships since 2009, including most recently a second three-peat in 2018-20, would …

Like most of us this time of year, Congress has a lengthy must-do list and at the top of that list should be passing policies to save more lives from cancer and improve patient care for those who are …