Our Viewpoint Editorials
We have plenty to be thankful for this year
      Santa has come and gone for another year and left under your tree presents for you and your family to enjoy. But it is at this time that we take time to reflect on all the "presents" that were enjoyed by the Jasper County community during this past year. We're thankful for Glenn Beatty Jr., who sa...
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Guest Commentary
It's not over until January 6
Mack Hall
      Every year some folks take up their crayons and write querulously to the newspapers to demand that Christ be returned to Christmas, as if the newspapers are somehow at fault because Christmas is not what the writers of letters to the editor think it ought to be.
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Your Viewpoint
Letters to the Editor
      Good Old Boys alive and well BY HECTOR J. WILLIAMS Jasper The Good Old Boys are still alive and well according to what I've read.
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Capital Highlights
Abbott renders opinion on House speaker's powers
Ed Sterling Texas Press Association
      A USTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott released a long-awaited opinion on Dec. 14, regarding the powers of the speaker of the Texas House. Questions arose over the limits of a speaker's power, and soon after the session ended, two Republican House committee chairs asked the state attorne...
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