A gorgeous day on the water looking at whooping cranes

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

With my in-laws in town this week for the holiday, we took Tuesday to visit the whooping cranes at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. It was a beautiful day on the water ahead of the cold front. Capt. Tommy Moore guided ...

Feast Time!

By LAHightower in Community Conversation

Ah, Thanksgiving! Time for feasting and stuffing yourself to your heart's content. Somehow I'm going to get 3 feast this year. I had one with my parents on Tuesday (my day off). Then my cousin is having her family meal ...

I am truly thankful

By BeckyCooper in The Daily Commute

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for many things. So not to bore you with it all I will limit this to my gratefulness as a commuter. I am thankful for the men and women who build and maintain the area ...

Cold blast is here

By dtewes in Sky Watch

   Can you say brrr?    A major change is in store for the area as the cold air forecasters have been promising has arrived. Expect a 40-degree change in the temperature in less than 24 hours.     The cold ...

By dtewes in Sky Watch

Gig 'Em, Baby!

By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook

I'm well aware that this is an arts and crafts blog, but with the biggest game of the year (in my mind, at least) a mere few days away, I decided it was time to support my fellow Aggies. We've ...

Q-school swingers

By PEbner in The world of golf

I'm definitely going to be glued to the results of the final stage of the PGA Tour q-school next week as several members of the Tight Lies Tour will be trying to gain their PGA cards over six gruelling days ...

We need more of these...

By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook

Who out there plans to be up at 4 a.m. Friday to hit those door-buster sales when the stores open at 5? Typically I would say "not me!" but I'll be out there talking to those early morning shoppers this ...

I hate fog

By BeckyCooper in The Daily Commute

 Let me say it up front I hate fog. It’s blinding, I can’t see oncoming cars until they are right there. I can’t see deer jumping across the road until I am right on them. I can’t see the landmarks ...

Cold blast on the way

By dtewes in Sky Watch

   Chilly autumn air should be on the way just in time for the holiday weekend, something travelers might not appreciate.    A cold front will arrive in Victoria late Wednesday or early Thursday, dropping daytime high temperatures 30 degrees. ...