Why did the blackouts happen during recent winter storms? Was it because of our wind turbines which produce 23% of the state’s energy? Was it a failure of our government officials? Was it just the extreme conditions? Was it our free-markets gone wrong?
Editor’s note: This column was written Wednesday morning as power began to fail at The Daily Sentinel office. In the meantime, electricity has been restored to the office and the writer’s home.
I was taking a nap Saturday afternoon when the phone rang. I shot up. It was my mother. Bad news, she said.
I get literally hundreds of emails a day, a good portion of which are pitches from public relations companies for stories that are of little consequence for East Texas readers. I delete most of them, but last week, one caught my eye with the headline “Eggnog Voted Texas’s Favorite Christmas …
I spent almost a week wading though the hate, lies and propaganda on the social networking site Parler in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
The stories of two Nacogdoches County veterans — one has a tenuous tie, but he’s supposedly buried here — epitomize the meaning of Veterans Day.
The 2020 presidential election is chock full of drama and mudslinging, and voters are sounding off at the polls en masse in what’s expected to be a record shattering turnout in terms of sheer numbers of voters.
The struggle of getting motorists to follow the state’s Move Over/Slow Down law is real, I learned last month as car after car whizzed past me and a courteous state trooper who was helping me change a tire.
Here’s a spooky prediction: Over the next few years, ghosts will become trendy again.
My family is very into Hallmark movies. We watch them in July when Hallmark does “Christmas in July,” and we watch them again when they come back in late October.
Last weekend, I took advantage of the gorgeous fall weather to engage in a bit of what I like to call history hunting, and it led me deep into two intriguing World War II stories.
