Are you excited for the first day of school?
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?
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
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?
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 ...