Columns & Opinions

Better to keep peace than to have to make it

News Staff
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 00:00
SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Neighbor Grover sez he can’t figure out why Gorilla Glue doesn’t stick to the inside of the bottle. Mid-terms have been over a week now. I’m really missing all those nice phone calls from our governor. Never even knew he knew me.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

News Staff
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 00:00
100 YEARS AGO.... Even though the Armistice had been signed, and World War I hostilities had ceased, letters from Rock-dale servicemen—written before the guns stopped firing—continued to be published in The Reporter.

Food handlers’ course

News Staff
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 00:00
COMMENTS FROM MICAH The “Texas Food Establishment Rules (TFER)” were revised and updated and effective Oct. 11, 2015.

Milano ISD: We’re doing things the right way

News Staff
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 00:00
MISD REPORT Our Veterans Day program that was held at our high school Friday. It was such an honor to host our veterans in our school and to show students what real heroes look like.

100 years

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 00:00
EDITORIAL The Rockdale ISD’s wonderful observance of Veterans Day is set for 10 a.m. Thursday in the high school gym. Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Those two anniversaries are closely related.

Backward glance: Our phone book in 1940

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 00:00
SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Neighbor Grover sez he wonders why abbreviated is such a long word. Bert Dockall, Rockdale Historical Society mainstay and major force behind our town’s I&GN Railroad Depot & Museum, brought me an old phone book last week.

Politics infected with rabies, people voting to fix it

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 00:00
OUTLAW INLAW Whatever the outcome was Tuesday (I’m writing this a week ahead of time), I am hopeful about our government for the first time in 20-plus years, which dates back to when H. Ross Perot ran for president. He ran as a third party candidate back in 1992.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 00:00
100 YEARS AGO.... Big news in The Reporter, and everywhere else, of course: “Germany Has Surrendered Unconditionally” marked the end of World War I. The surrender was signed on 5 a.m. Nov. 11 and went into effect at 11 a.m., French time. Rockdale celebrated.

His kingdom is forever

News Staff
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 00:00
Lift up your eyes For Jesus the kingdom of God was the thing of supreme value. He was forever trying to impress on us its worth. But he had a hard time finding words adequate enough to describe it. All through the gospels we hear him saying, “It is like this. It is like this. It is like this.