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If you don’t care about your hometown, don’t vote

If you don’t care what kind of town you’re living in, if it doesn’t matter to you what it looks like, whether the taxes are high or low, whether the city gets most of its money from you or from visitors or what’s its spent for, what your schools are teaching or how well, then don’t bother to vote this week.

A lesson in math for Rep. Hilderbran

Until last week, Harvey Hilderbran had not given his constituents much reason to believe that he was particularly dull-witted, perhaps because that deficiency is so unremarkable in Texas politics.

TxDOT’s St. Patrick’s Day miracle

We got lucky on St. Patrick’s Day.

TxDOT orchestrated the explosion of nearly 30 charges on the graceful old US 281 bridge that carried us across Lake Marble Falls for three generations without blowing down any nearby habitations or killing anyone.

A top-down dictatorship comes to town

If Gov. Rick Perry is truly the bureaucratic Dragon Slayer he pretends to be, it’s time he let the Washington Dragons rest in their caves awhile and do something about one that reigns with arrogance and impunity in the shadow of the Texas Capitol.

A jury must hear this case

Former state Republican committeeman Johnnie B. Rogers has been charged with the felony assault of a Burnet Bulletin reporter as the result of an incident witnessed by a variety of police officers, public officials and private citizens.

DEPLORABLE! What Does LCRA Stand For?

With its vote to fill the bottomless trough of the rice industry with water from the ever-shrinking Highland Lakes, the LCRA cleared up any misunderstanding about exactly what its acronym represents.

America needs a leader — Mitt Romney

The endorsement of a candidate for President of the United States by a group of small community newspapers might seem a useless and perhaps delusional exercise in futility – particularly in a state where the ballots and the electors are virtually certain to go to the Republican ticket and the ultimate winner is expected to be chosen by a small plurality of voters in the Midwest.

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