Opinion

“Style icons always change, and they usually inspire my haircuts more than anything else” — Maya Hawke – American actress and singersongwriter. A haircut isn’t something I think about a lot these days.

With the start of a new fiscal year, Alpine ISD, like many districts across Texas, faces an uphill battle, compounded by our state’s ongoing underfunding of public education. Alpine ISD continues to grapple with significant financial constraints.

I first came to the Big Bend region in the summer of 2008 on a family vacation. I remember it being deathly hot and I vowed to never return.

“I’m going to finish my book of columns this year.” — I said that. Which means I really have to do it now Reviewing columns, you’ve written about people off and on for most of your life brings to mind some that stand out more than others.

It was a simple principle. And it worked.

Did you know that Sul Ross State University employs over 250 faculty and staff – folks who shop, buy homes, and pay taxes – on the campus in Alpine?

Climatologists at Yale University have described climate change in Texas as a battle between the “Haves and the Have Nots.” To the south, with the Gulf of Mexico warming, “huge influxes of moisture” are bringing more rain and flooding.

“The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.” — Will Rogers (1879 1935) American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. “More old coffee drinkers solving the world’s problems, and more prayer.

Early in the morning, the catfish play tag. If you’ve ever seen a dog, get the “zoomies,” you’ll be picturing something very similar to the burst of energy Ictalurus lupus gets when the day’s first light hits the canals.

As a result of the surprising recent book, “Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics,” published in 2023 by U.T. history professor H. W. Brands, pointed out that extreme partisanship in U. S. politics has a 200+ year history.