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February 7, 2008 / Opinion

Patterson backs off on park deal

Dave McNeely

While the remaining presidential candidates were flying around the country at a breakneck pace, trying to shore up or add to their support in two dozen states on Super Tuesday, Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson was backing off a limb. More...

Now presenting ... alternative Oscars

Cactus Pryor

Some time there should be an Academy Award for the actor or actress who walks across the stage, is handed the well-known Oscar award, and responds with,"Thanks." And then cuts. More...

Financing the highway system

Steve Martaindale

Leah and I did some honest number crunching and soul searching this weekend and it made me think of the Texas Department of Transportation and, well, government in general. We bought a house less than two years ago. It's a small, frame home. More...

Polling is starting to cast a pall

Mary Henkel Judson

Unlike most of America, which is tuned in to the latest on Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Mary Kate and Ashley and the like, I'm following the presidential primaries closely. The emphasis seems to be on "the polls". More...

Letters to the Editor

What about us? We come to Port Aransas for the months of January and February each year. We live out of state and guess that makes us Winter Texans, right? More...