When the lens turns

There are certain experiences you dread as a community news editor. I was faced with one of those this week. As I sat at my desk, I took a deep breath and hovered my cursor over a photo folder and prepared to... pick a picture of myself to put in print.

Turning Back the Pages

75 years ago Jan. 30, 1948 September8-11weretentatively set as the rodeo dates for the 1948 Dublin rodeo. This action was taken at the membership meeting of the Dublin Rodeo Enterprises, Inc., last Friday night at the directors room at the Dublin National Bank.

Baby got back slang

As I approach the magical age of 40, I’m supposedly getting to the peak of my life (and then it’s all downhill from there). What I didn’t realize is what a rude awakening this would be for my newly aching body. My kids all still want to be held from time to time, which is killing my back.

Comanche County Corn Pre-Plant Program

We are now at mid-January of the new year and that means it will not be long until planting time. We all need to pray we get some good moisture by planting time for all crops.

Welcome to the 118th Congress

To Texas 25 – It is an honor to officially be sworn in as the Representative for Texas’ 25th Congressional district.

If you squint, it almost makes sense

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-andcoming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep one in place. As it turned out, I was near-sighted.

The world’s a better place with cookies

“You know, the world would be a better place if we all treated our lives like Cooper treats his cookies,” I said one night while watching our extremely entertaining husky named Cooper.

Museum Matters

We think of him as a nationally famous entertainer, but singer songwriter Johnny Duncan was born in Dublin in 1938 in Dr. Guy’s hospital above the Rexall Drug Store. Though he was born here, he went to school in his early years in Alexander because the Duncan farm was closer to it than Dublin.

Excited to lead TX-25

Dear Texans, It is an honor to officially be sworn in as the Representative for Texas’25thCongressional district.

Will ChatGPT replace human writers?

Welcome to the year of AI content creation. From writing to artwork created by artificial intelligence software, the internet is embracing this “make the computer do it for me” approach. Soon after OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, the company was valued at a cool $29 billion.