COMMENTARY: A Halloween horror story
By Louise Butler
Have you ever wondered why pictures of the coronavirus look like the kind of ball you might throw to your dog? Photos...
COMMENTARY: Where were you on 9/11?
Where were you on 9/11, when our world came tumbling down?
Where were you on 9/11, at 8:45 a.m., when we saw the flames of...
COMMENTARY: Defunding police not the solution
America is experiencing a movement, the likes of which we have not seen since the Civil Rights era. This summer we witnessed a few...
COMMENTARY: Labor Day’s violent history
Labor Day during the COVID-19 pandemic looks quite different this time around than in years past. In an ironic way, this year’s holiday underlines...
COMMENTARY: How does one explain the feeling and sensation of war?
Have you ever been lost in a dream, wandering endlessly through the corridors of time, glimpsing at images in mirrors of unremembered faces and...
COMMENTARY: Overwhelmed, underfunded shelter changed course, realized its dream
Going through some old shelter papers recently, I ran across a piece of yellowed stationery from the 1980s, way back when Palm Valley Animal...
COMMENTARY: A Faustian bargain
The United States has 4% of the world’s population. We have 25% of the worlds COVID-19 infections.
We have averaged more than 1,000 deaths every...
COMMENTARY: United against the pandemic
Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott visited the Rio Grande Valley to see in person the impacts of both Hurricane Hanna and the coronavirus. One...
COMMENTARY: Defending the indefensible
I was flabbergasted by a letter to the editor that appeared on July 17 titled “Trump defended by Auston B. Cron, that asserted that...
COMMENTARY: The agony of July
All of us have lost loved ones. And many of us have had to seek the help of emergency medical personnel at times of...