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February 9, 2026

Funny Papers Again Column | 14 Days of the Sights and Sounds of Christmas

Steve Wilson
As Planet Earth nears the end of another orbit around the sun, many in the United States observe Christmas Day. It’s celebrated as a religious day, this 25th day of the last month of the year, just two weeks away. This column about Christmas came...

Window on the World Column | Honoring a Local Author

Lucy Jensen
You know how it is when you are older and yet you’re still wanting to do everything? That would be me. I have the urge to consistently go and do all the time, but sometimes my body — or, increasingly, my knee and hip...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Time for Some to Wake Up to History and a Rare Invitation Accepted

Steve Wilson
For one who enjoys words and how when used properly can elicit a gamut of human response from joy to anger, from antipathy to action. But I don’t always warm up to new usages of old words that spring from who knows where. Journalists...

The gift of song

Local column by George Worthy

Funny Papers Again Column | A Rant Twixt Two Random Thoughts

Steve Wilson
I don’t know the extremes to which one can go to be called a pacifist, so I don’t label myself one but do join the majority that eschews violence. I don’t like witnessing people fighting in anger, and I’m sure I’m not alone in...

Worthy to Print Column | ā€˜Cheers’ to Kindness

George Worthy
ā€œMaking your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got, taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go, where everybody knows your name, and they are always glad...

Letter to the Editor | Going Forward: Remembering the Sacrifice of Officer Tippit

To the Editor: About this time each year our national media will start reminiscing about the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. And like others, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard what happened on the streets of...

Funny Papers Again Column | Stop, No Stop: A Two-Wheel Dilemma

When faced with an empty page and a brain to match with a deadline looming large on the near horizon, I usually just take a look back over the past week or two and draw upon a few random thoughts or experiences hoping it...

Worthy to Print Column | The Lone Ranger

George Worthy
It seems I missed the deadline for last week’s paper. I could go on and tell you about how I was captured by some of the folks swimming across the Rio Grande and held until Prez Biden paid for my release. Of course, you...

Funny Papers Again Column | Some Odds and Ends … and an Odd End

I received a bit of a scare the other day while riding my bike on San Antonio Drive, not from any near incident with a vehicle but from a sight I beheld near the skateboard park. I assumed that unaware to me the city...
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