This past weekend, over my morning coffee, I opened my news app and read the awful headline– “Eight Migrants Found Dead in the Rio Grande.” While we’ve seen these reports of the atrocities at our Southern Border for nearly two years, this one hit harder. Just weeks ago, I stood on those very same ri...

Although I am pastoring a congregation in this beautiful part of God’s creation, I have not really made permanent residence here. So in a sense, I really have no right to fuss at the good folks who live here. However, I know the citizens of the Jena/ Trout area love both God and Country. This is pro...

Will you own an electric car? If you live long enough and that’s all that is being made, you probably will. Many of us will hold out for as long as possible. I’m all for electric cars especially if someone else is buying them. If 20 percent of America’s driving population goes to the electric vehicl...

It may well turn out to be that Kamala Harris was not picked to be Joe Biden’s Vice-Presidential running mate because she checked all the right boxes ...

There I was standing in the middle of a riding arena with a bottle of cooking oil. I had been given the auspicious task of anointing the pig. I can ho...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the September 6, 2000 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/ Editor Sammy J. ...