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Anyone who has spent any time at the Cibolo knows how passionate we all feel about the role of nature in our lives. You can talk to anyone on the staff or any of our volunteers, and you will find that the magnificent wonders of the natural world fuel us to do all the work that we do.
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From Tuesday, November 30, through Saturday, December 4, visitors got the opportunity to wander through the lobby and admire beautifully decorated trees and wreaths.
Read moreQ: We tried our best to be good parents, but our adult son has developed a talent for making poor decisions and behaving irresponsibly. He’s deep in debt and may lose his job for lack of transportation because his expensive car was repossessed. We’ve tried to support and help him in similar situations, but things just keep getting worse. What do you suggest?
Read moreThe state’s Public Utility Commission last week lowered the maximum allowable wholesale price for electricity by almost half, from $9,000 per megawatt hour to $5,000.
Read moreThe quote in the headline of this column was the opening line made by our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), when he addressed the Congress of the United States on December 8, 1941. He was at the House of Congress podium asking that the U.S. Congress declare wWar against the Empire of Japan.
Read moreWhere do you begin to celebrate this season? For so many of us, the challenges and crises of the past two years have at times felt overwhelming. With grieving over lost loved ones, lost jobs, hyper inflation just beginning, the division in our nation still widening, maybe you are asking yourself, “What is there to celebrate?”
Read moreRound and round and round she goes – and where she stops nobody knows. …
Read moreI am convinced that our obsession with statewide races and big picture politics are what is killing the Democratic Party in rural Texas. For over 30 years we have told ourselves that if we just had the right candidate for governor, or senator, or one of the other big races, our voters will finally turn out in droves, and we will reclaim the Democrats rightful place of power in Austin. Then all will be right with the world. That is a delusion so false, it is almost criminal. Yet we fall for it again and again. We have had several of those candidates over the decades. Every last one of them has gone down to defeat. “Yeah but we came close,” some will say.
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