Opinion

I called it some time ago. Shopping carts. Shopping carts were once the measure of morality according to the weird world of good-person-policing on the internet. Post after post went around on social media where people declared that leaving a shopping cart in the parking lot instead of putting it in the cart corral tells us all we need to know about you as a person. You’re a horrible human being who probably drowns kittens in your spare time. You see, this policing started small. This moral posturing and blanket condemning of strangers and friends began innocently enough, back before the world exploded with real issues.

The Texas Center for the Book has launched the 2020- 2021 Letters About Literature Texas contest, a program that invites students to respond to authors of books or poetry who have touched their lives. The contest opens November 4, 2020, and is open to Texas students in grades 4 through 12.

Young County Commissioner’s Court held their first meeting in a few weeks on Mon, Sept. 14. The meeting opened up by receiving a COVID-19 update, followed by a report of hotel occupancy tax for July for the Wildcatter Ranch and Resort, LP at $8,056.03.