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Editor’s Note: This letter originally ran in the February 16 issue of the Bulletin without a name attached, although it was submitted with one. The Bulletin’s policy is to not run anonymous letters and we are rerunning the letter with the proper name in light of our mistake.
Read moreIt was a brave 13-day last stand for freedom in Texas 186 years ago, from February 23, 1836, to March 6, 1836.
Read moreFellow citizens of Bandera, I hope you will join me in doing everything we can to prevent construction of a large (1000+ acres) solar “farm” just a few miles outside town on FM 3240.
Read moreThat’s clear when the national butterfly sanctuary in Mission, Texas has to “shut down indefinitely” to fend off attacks from right wing extremists who claim it operates a sex trafficking ring, according to news reports on February 3, 2022.
Read moreThere has been a lot of uproar and discussion about a certain article that discussed “traitors” in our county recently. Teachers, staff, citizens, and neighbors have all formed different opinions. Bandera County GOP Secretary, Mr. Striegl has asked everyone to take a stand, “get up off your backside and get involved.” He has all but called out the citizens for being lazy and uninterested in our own community. In addition, our elected school board members have been personally attacked and called “traitors” and accused of seeking this company out as a board. The article in question is 90% opinion with little to no merit or fact.
Read moreI sincerely hope you reconsider your decision to close the recycling bins. Will this also include the compactor of regular garbage? It may cost Bandera County to recycle paper, plastic, tin, and aluminum but it costs the Earth a lot more to fill dumps with materials which may deteriorate in several years and maybe not at all. Right now, soft drink manufacturers are facing a lack of aluminum cans which is why some of the slower-selling products are not being manufactured.
Read moreThe letters to the editor in the last two weeks brought back a memory. I went to Cuba in 2017 on an educational trip. It was eye-opening - and that’s really an understatement. One of the most vivid images in my mind from that trip were the giant holes in the sidewalks throughout Havana. I have been to several countries, and I’d never seen anything like it. The holes were so large, that if you’d accidentally stepped in one, you probably would have badly broken your leg. I wondered why it was that no one fixed the holes. I mean, if it was in my neighborhood, I’d have been out there trying to find something to fill it in with. Reading the letters about the vandalized sign reminded me that you have two types of people in the world, those who want someone to fix their problems for them, and those who fix problems. These are diametrically opposing and incompatible world views. Leftists seem to want others (ie the state) to fix a problem. They also want other people (rarely themselves) to sacrifice for the benefit of society - but to quote Thatcher, “...there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women...” When you ask others to do what you will not, when you expect others to take risks that have no benefit to the risk taker, you have opened the door to authoritarianism and tyranny. Whoever vandalized the sign behaved badly, but Bandera County Democrats, you should have gone down there and cleaned the sign first, before whining to the Bulletin about it. If everyone behaved as Mr. Daniel (thank you for taking your time to clean that sign), we wouldn’t have half the problems we have.
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