Opinion

We can’t avoid weather, but we can do more to mitigate its impact on our lives.

I want to express my gratitude to our San Marcos Police Department particularly in the person of Officer J. Cortina.

After the Texas Legislature spent much of 2023 in session, a bevy of new laws go into effect on New Year’s Day, though some have been delayed by lawsuits challenging their constitutionality.

Dear Abby

BRIDGING OUR DIFFERENCES

MY PARENTS ARE MY GUIDING LIGHT

COLLABORATION, SAFETY AND FUN WITH THE FAMILY

With the furor over abortion dying down, for now, it had been a few days since a Texas law made national news.

Here’s a great New Year’s resolution: get a pet.

DEAR ABBY: I have been seeing the same man for a year and a half. In the beginning, we were, basically, friends with benefits, and we were OK with that. Having both gone through recent breakups or divorce, neither of us wanted anything serious. However, after six months passed, I started falling for him. He always made clear that if he didn’t want to go down that road, we would break ties, but the way he acted indicated that maybe one day there would be more.

In the two years since Winter Storm Uri plunged millions of Texas homes into darkness, Gov. Greg Abbott has leaned on a familiar refrain: legislative fixes have made the state’s power grid healthier than ever. Abbott spent serious political capital ramming these changes through the Legislature in 2021, then practically staked his entire reelection bid on avoiding a Uri repeat.

America said its final goodbye to Sandra Day O’Connor.