Download the sample ballot for Poth ISD’s General Election May 9, 2015
Team-roping event rescheduled
The Independent Cattlemen’s Association (SCTICA) Benefit Team Ropin’ set for Saturday, April 25, at the Stockdale Chamber of Commerce Arena in Stockdale, has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 16, due to the weather. For more information, contact Jaime at 830-391-2331, Glenn at 210-260-0563, or Windy at 210-215-1139.
Letter: Less stuff = more happiness
By Glenn Mollette Americans hoard too much stuff. Everywhere I go in small or large towns I see storage facilities being built. Americans have “stuff” and we need more storage space. We spend most of our lives wanting stuff and then we have to worry about keeping or maintaining what we have accumulated. My wife and I cleaned out a […]
Editorial: It’s time Congress steps up to end ethanol’s tyranny
By Robert L. Bradley Jr. Free market economist Milton Friedman explained how government subsidies are very hard to dislodge, once in place. With concentrated benefits and diffused costs, the status quo can become tyrannical in that a few winners have great incentive to continue their raid on millions of taxpayers. In Iowa, presidential contender Ted Cruz recently made headlines by […]
Elmendorf General Election – Sample Ballot
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La Vernia ISD General Election – Sample Ballot
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Vote for Allison Mitchell, national finalist
More than 2,500 elementary school students representing approximately 230 Sodexo-served school districts nationwide created healthy and fun after-school snack recipes as part of the 2015 Sodexo Future Chefs: Healthy After-School Snack Challenge. Based on the criteria of originality, taste, ease of presentation, kid friendliness and use of healthy ingredients, 40 regional winners were narrowed down to five national finalists, who […]
Poth General Election – Sample Ballot
Download the sample ballot for Poth’s General Election May 9, 2015
Editorial: Start to understand the 2016 candidates
Painful as it is to realize that both the Democrats and the Republicans will still be holding their primaries a year from now, that is one of the high prices we pay for democracy. Seldom does the initial “front-runner” in either party’s primaries end up being the actual candidate when Election Day rolls around. However, even if we cannot predict […]
