Girls do it better
Remember them? This was the all-girl team from Goliad High School that thrust themselves into a world usually reserved for the boys -- restoring a 1951 Ford tractor. I had so much fun spending a morning with Shanna Whitfield, McCalley ...

A mother's plea
It's one of those Facebook friends you've never actually met, but now you find yourself weaving in and out of their lives via status updates. I'd added Stephanie Donnell Santiago, of Karnes City, some time ago, hoping to chat with ...

How will you vote on $22M bond?
As I'm sure you know (because you read EVERYTHING I write, right?), Victoria College is asking taxpayers for $22 million to build an Emerging Technologies Center that would provide workforce and continuing education training. The bond will be on the ...

An Orthographic Adventure
Won't you rendezvous with me at the hour of 6 post meridiem for a spelling spectacle? .....I'm sick of using thesaurus, so I'll just come out with it. The spelling bee is tonight! We'll be in the thick of things ...

It Gets Better
It's just sad. Deeply sad. To know a person can have such self-hatred that he or she determines death is the only escape from the inner and outer torment. As your news alerts may have sounded, the former Rutgers University ...

Live from the school board meeting
Being the loyal readers you are, you probably know the Victoria school board is considering a proposal from Pedcor Investments, the company seeking to build an affordable housing complex on John Stockbauer. Several of you have voiced your opposition to ...

Education reform: Sometimes you just have to laugh.
Last week, I tackled (or at least tried very hard to tackle) the downright complex world of education accountability, in particular the "No Child Left Behind" act. Honestly, I could have filled your entire Monday paper with all the ways ...

School board meeting from the comfort of your home!
I'm about to head out to the grandest of Thursday night entertainment: The VISD school board meeting. They'll call an election for board members tonight and discuss fixing Howell Middle School's roof, among other things. I'll be Tweeting from the ...

Judge orders man to take wife on date
Since when is spending time with your significant other considered punishment? Looks to be the case in Florida, where a judge ordered a husband brought in on a domestic violence charge to take his wife on a date to Red ...

Downton Abbey and the s*%$ Maggie Smith says
Come on, people. What is cooler than a British period piece? Or World War I action? Or the arcane happenings of an aristocratic family and the supposed-to-be-unseen world of their servants?? Nothing. Well, besides Maggie Smith. I should have been ...