We have some cell phone lines here at The Community News that were originally on the AT&T network. Several years ago, due to AT&T’s customer service, or rather lack thereof, we switched to …
As the Aledo Bearcats take the field Friday night I will be passing the gavel as the president of the National Newspaper Association Foundation to Jeanne Straus of Chester, New York. It has been …
It wasn’t just lyrics in a song when John Denver sang “Rocky Mountain High.” He was expressing the magical feeling people experience when they fall in love with …
There have been very few moments in my life when I watched events I simply could not believe were happening. They were so far outside the realm of what I would have ever thought …
As of Aug. 28 my time as a reporter for The Community News has come to a close. Working at TCN was my first job after graduating from Texas Christian University in December 2025, and …
There were a couple of news items this last week that are noteworthy. First, an audit of the Texas Education Agency showed that it cannot be described as anything other than a bloated …
I have hesitated to wade into these waters, but I think something needs to be said to provide you a clear, unbending statement of our policies toward reporting in this newspaper. There is a …
Kay Granger was the face of change. She broke barriers not for the sake of making history, but because she believed in serving others. In doing so, she became a true trailblazer for women in politics …
This column originally appeared in The Dallas Morning News where Glenn Rogers is a contributing columnist. One of my all-time favorite movies is The Waterboy starring Adam Sandler as …
The new “Dave Campbell’s Texas Football” is out! You know what that means… Yep, it’s summer, it’s blazing hot and the electric bill is higher than Cheech and Chong in their prime …
The World Cup soccer tournament has finally arrived in North Texas. There is a lot of excitement among the media and fans. When it was first announced several years ago, I was also …
Summer is supposed to be a time for, what’s the old expression? Oh, yeah, fun in the sun. We certainly have an abundance of sun in Texas, nothing new about that. Try walking to the mailbox …
This essay first appeared in the George W. Bush Center’s Catalyst magazine. The resounding success of our nation takes a multitude of diverse forms. These include unparalleled religious …
One of the perks of my job is experiencing serendipitous events that have a lasting impact either on my life or the lives of others. One such event happened several years ago — I was covering …
After a recent meeting in Washington D.C., my wife and I took an extra day for a Potomac River boat ride and tour of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. It was our first time, and it did not …
When I first moved to Weatherford in 1996, one of the first folks to welcome me to town was Bob McKinley. He wasn’t asking how I would cover his Weatherford College basketball team or how many …
Readers with long memories yearn for more clean, creative humor. Sadly, folks in the first half of their lives are clueless about the golden years of radio. It featured 30-minute comedy shows with …
It’s no longer likely that many sons and daughters will enter their parents’ professions. There are exceptions, of course. Seventy-six-year-old Harold Barton is one, son of the …
Persons claiming to have the same mental faculties and physical capabilities that they had a half-century ago probably fib about other things, too. Some formerly judged such jokers to be guilty of …
As I write it is Wednesday, and after a full day yesterday I fielded the question “what happened to your face” in various forms several times. One person just came out and blurted “what …
Too much is expected of us – we folks of a certain age – whether man or woman. Society yawns as we strive to avoid violent foul-ups in the fast lane; we weep, choking on the dust of …
Every April, Texans celebrate the Battle of San Jacinto and our hard-fought freedom. The Texas Declaration of Independence, signed just a month before that battle in 1836, listed the failure of the …
Whoops! I almost used the age-old idiom about never saying never. First in print back in the 14th century, it was featured in 2020 as background music for the popular movie, The Karate Kid. It is …
I have seen a lot in my 31-years in the newspaper business, but this last week will be one for the books. Up until now this newspaper has never received a letter or letters from a lawyer …
They are missed, these two men who didn’t try to make us love each other, but at the very least, made us tolerant of each other during their professional lives. Perhaps unknowingly, their gentle …
