It was good news this week that a preservation group had acquired the Lincoln High School auditorium, one of a few landmarks remaining of the 1867 Settlement community, with plans to either restore or rebuild the historic structure.
Anyone who knows Frank Incaprera Jr., knows he has the gift of gab, and if you don’t, he will tell you. A gift which served him and gravely wounded soldiers and sailors well during World War II in military hospitals as a U.S. Army Corpsman.
Academia, local government officials and engineers have spent quite a bit of time since Hurricane Ike in 2008 studying storm-surge barriers in the Netherlands and other regions in the excruciatingly slow and breathtakingly expensive race to reduce flood risk in this region.
After the pastor’s message and a hearty breakfast, the homeless and some volunteers gather in a tight circle around him for prayer.
The role of law enforcement in our community is vital. We need to feel the cooperation between residents and law enforcement will safely move us forward.
Leonard Woolsey's editorial questioned the Broadway cemetery's desecrator's motives, but didn't factor in the obvious — the absence of the fence ("Grave desecration among worst of vandalism crimes," The Daily News, Nov. 16).
In response to Mike Allison's letter ("It’s time for GOP to wake up and smell the coffee," The Daily News, Nov. 19): Allison’s reference to lockstepping Republicans made me shudder with visions of Nazis Germany and his referring to Trump’s physical appearance (“this orange-haired pink guy”) …
When it comes to wants, needs and taxpayer money, needs almost always win, which is the way it ought to be.
As usual, a collection of reports from the game wardens of Texas Parks & Wildlife brings us quite a variety of interesting stories.
In response to the letter by Tom Hall ("Unfounded innuendo poisons all who drink it," The Daily News, Nov. 17): Since I take, but rarely read, the newspaper (anymore), I didn’t read the commentary by David Stanowski from Nov. 14.
In response to the column by Randy Weber ("Dems conducting impeachment in search of a crime," The Daily News, Nov. 16): Weber's column brought to mind an old tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes" written by Hans Christian Andersen, about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes t…
Randy Weber’s column is so typical of the GOP ("Dems conducting impeachment in search of a crime," The Daily News, Nov. 16). Don’t he and the Republicans understand they lost the 2018 midterms because of "The Donald?"
While it might appear to be a pretty simple question, Clear Creek Independent School District administrators and elected leaders are in an unenviable position as they consider what time each morning classes should start.
Quietly, the older man approaches. His feet move slowly across the sand to our table near the water’s edge of a tiny island off the coast of Central America.
If David Stanowski has any evidence that the city government is "operating ... for the benefit of ... well-connected insiders ... " he should report that evidence to the appropriate authorities ("City should work to benefit residents, businesses," The Daily News, Nov. 14).
Is it time for the Lone Star Rally to find another home?
Once again, another harrowing rescue by Galveston Beach Patrol heroes of four fishermen stranded on a jetty due to dangerous water conditions ("Four rescue after winter weather sinks boat," The Daily News, Nov. 13).
Few crimes against property are worse than the vandalism of gravesites, as happened yet again this week in the Broadway Cemetery Historic District. No matter what your belief system, the intentional desecration of burial sites is universally considered among lowest of low actions.
”I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach this president, he will get reelected.” — Congressman Al Green
For the past two years, annual nestings by endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles have declined on western Gulf of Mexico nesting beaches of Tamaulipas and Veracruz, Mexico, and Texas.
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