Are you excited for the first day of school?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

I started the morning at a pep rally for Victoria schools and ended it enjoying the sunset over my kids' shiny new schools. You might say I had a perfect bookend to my day. After receiving a stand ovation at ...

How do you keep up with government officials in digital age?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Government officials may easily skirt the Public Information Act in the digital age, social media experts said Friday morning during a panel discussion at the annual convention of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas in Austin. The law requires ...

That old dog won't hunt

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

I've heard plenty of newspaper jokes, but my mother-in-law shared a new one in her birthday card to me last week. I present it here in honor of the Advocate's hard-working reporters: Three hunters go to a convenience store in ...

When is it ever appropriate to restrict online comments?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

If you're one of my many Facebook friends, you know I'm regularly using that social-networking site as another way to reach out to the community. For whatever reason, I've found the conversation on Facebook to be much more pleasant than ...