Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man?

Today’s column looks back at some of Wharton County’s many significant achievements in calendar year 2024.

Should Wharton County construct a new jail or expand the existing facility?

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Instead, both are proposing to hand out goodies to strategically positioned voters.

The 2024-2025 school year has barely completed a full month since students have been back on campuses across the country and yet we’ve had another large school shooting.

Four weeks after former President Donald Trump’s conviction in a much-criticized Manhattan prosecution and a week before the first and earliest-ever scheduled post-primary presidential debate, it’s a good time to look at how these two unusually elderly and oft-reviled candidates stand in the…

School’s out for the summer, so now it is time to examine the state of our education system.

On May 31, a unanimous New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies after deliberating less than 48 hours and observing Mr. Trump’s refusal to testify in his own defense. The jury found that the former president created false business records to conceal a $130,000 …

The chill November dawn brought expected news: “Teri, we’ve lost your father.” My mother’s voice was tired, calm but tinged with lostness. He’d only been ill a short while and that had been filled with care giving, leaving not much time for future planning.

County Commissioners continue to lower existing tax rates in hopes of offsetting the appraisal district’s skyrocketing property valuations.

With the EC Chamber of Commerce Board’s eyes wide open to their financial problems, we hope that the EC City Council will trust the board’s corrective efforts and provide timely funding assistance for the Christmas Mall and Christmas Parade.

Democrats are beating their chest and yelling “we’re saving Democracy.” Yet they are the ones allowing illegals to enter our borders for one reason –  so they can later vote. They are the ones allowing criminals to go free faster than the police can fill out paper work.

Could a second Biden term be more injurious to the economy than his first term? It seems unimaginable given the first three years gave us 20% inflation, a $2,000 loss in average real incomes for the middle class, 6 million added illegal immigrants, a war on American energy that has caused ga…

In recent years the postal service has racked up more than its share of complaints from those it is tasked with serving. Whether it be the billions in lost tax revenue annually, the fiasco at the Houston distribution center, consistent delays and erratic delivery times locally etc.

Once upon a time, my husband and I traveled to a remote fishing village off the Gulf coast of Florida called Cedar Key. I have written about this magical place here in Teri’s Tales several times, with reports on a recent hurricane’s destruction and the island’s permanent state of resiliency.

I suggest President Donald Trump and the GOP build the coming election around these questions. There is no “extremism” or “right wing” or “white supremacy” or “radical” or “controversial” or “unpopular” here.

The convictions of James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer, for their role in their son’s mass school shooting in Michigan, which resulted in the tragic murders of four and injuries of seven, tells us one thing: If you are an irresponsible gun owner, you will pay the price if a crime is commit…

In 1992, Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton famously answered a voter question about how the national debt affected him personally. Clinton’s response was often paraphrased as, “I feel your pain.”

What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters – more than three-quarters of a million – in the usually low-immigration mon…

The Biden administration has announced in recent weeks new stringent emissions requirements for virtually the entire American transportation system.

Is America still a democracy or just a place for organized government crime? It’s harder to get into the Super Bowl than our border. How do illegals walk 3,000 miles across Mexico, without food or support and show up at the border overweight and with a cellphone? The majority of illegals say…

The price of eggs at the supermarket is high – as is everything else – but let me tell you, the cost of raising chickens ain’t cheap.

Universities are not alone among our institutions that have lost their way. How about America’s corporations, which now seem to think social justice is their job, beside efficiently delivering goods and services to the American public?

Hello Toni:

Data shows that winds of political change are blowing among Black voters.

Dear Toni,

When I was studying journalism at Adams State College, my instructor Richard Joyce challenged us in one of our classes to write our own obituary.

Advent calls us each year and reminds us of Christ’s return at the end of time. We are told to be alert, for we do not know when the time will come. We are being told; “Keep your eyes open! Be ready to welcome Jesus at the end of time.”

1966 was the year I moved to Wharton and began teaching at Wharton County Junior College, the college located a few blocks from my newly rented apartment.

Some 1,000 Black pastors nationwide are reported to have weighed-in to pressure President Joe Biden to force a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.

With football season over, it’s time to embrace a short-lived but wildly exciting season as the Wharton County Youth Fair and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo get underway.

Dear Toni,

A few comments about unions, a workers best voice.  ANY benefits you now have at work were not given out of a sense of caring about you, but because union members fought and died for them.

God has placed some of His creatures in specific places, — you’re not likely to find a kangaroo in East Bernard.  And you will have to travel to Southeast Asia to find Macaque monkeys, and South America to see Capuchin monkeys.

Bob and Carol Burchell pulled into their driveway during the snowstorm, and were surprised to see their daughter, Katie, along with her boyfriend, Randy Jones, sitting on the porch swing, wrapped in a blanket. Both were shivering and smiling.

The media warn, “Artificial intelligence will replace millions of jobs.”

Americans began celebrating Washington’s birthday just months after his death, long before Congress declared it a federal holiday. Washington’s birthday became a legal holiday, to be observed on his birthday, Feb. 22, well into the 20th century.

Editor,