Opinion

Seek the truth As much as I appreciate the humor in Biden’s handlers shout out to Leni Riefenstahl aficionados, what I didn’t appreciate about this speech was the attempt to turn one group of people against another. That’s destructive of a good society.

I’m confused. I got the flu a few months ago, the worst flu I’d ever had.

There is no better time than now to be an Alpine Resident. Our city is on the cusp of some positive changes. More residents than ever are voicing their concerns, opinions, ideas, and solutions to the challenges ahead of us. City officials and the City Council are encouraging increased input from residents, and are adding additional layers of transparency to those that have been established for some time now.

MICHELLE RINEHART Superintendent, Alpine ISD One of the hallmarks of effective leadership is being able to jointly attend to the present and the future. While we celebrate a strong, energizing start to the 2022-23 school year here in Alpine ISD, we are also looking ahead to future challenges.

LEON ALDRIDGE Guest Columnist “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” - J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.

Fall of the U.S. empire? Some say the U.S.

Every year there is a National Employee Appreciation Day dedicated to honoring and celebrating employees everywhere who work tirelessly to keep businesses moving forward. There are also dedicated weeks for national recognition, such as National Public Servants Week, National Telecommunicators Week, National Public Works Week, Professional Municipal Clerks Week, and many more.

Executive Assistant, Brewster County Volunteerism is a word not often seen or heard in our dayto- day life. At the same time we all have an idea of what it means, and we form our own opinion or definition of what something means according to our personal convenience.

JASE GRAVES Guest Columnist East Texas is hot, and not in the way you compliment your wife when she’s mad at you for performing an epic cannonball while she’s lounging by the pool with her laptop. For the past few weeks, Texas (and much of the world) has been suffering through a distressing phenomenon known as summer, that time of year when we all remember what it’s like being toddlers walking around with drenched undergarments.

World conditions Prior to 2020 our world conditions were improving as wars were being contained, global poverty was reduced, clean air and water increased, life expectancy was higher, child mortality was reduced, climate related deaths were lower, illiteracy was reduced, and U.S. borders were in a more controllable state.