Thoughts on work, as workers fall behind

Just as it is said there are no small acting roles (only small actors) so, too, I think it might be said that there is no menial work. I think about that, at this recent Labor Day time of year and other times, as well. Hardly a week goes by I don't think about it. Because even though it says "editor" on the nameplate outside my office door, in the past I have earned my keep as everything from a disc jockey to a house painter to a short-order breakfast cook. Friday, September 10, 2010

EDITORIAL: Wilco properties: No butts about it

Smokers and non-smokers sometimes get on each other's nerves. There are times each group sees the other as being rude, arrogant and self-righteous. Nonetheless, we all have to live with each other, and so it is not unreasonable to suggest the tiebreaker here goes to the folks who don't want to breathe other people's smoke in public places. Friday, September 10, 2010

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

EDITORIAL: Wilco needs to mend its fences

In the movie "A Lion in Winter," English King Henry II - plus his three sons and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine - are all struggling with each other for power. During one scene just about all of the characters have got knives pulled on each other - and one of the sons remarks on this. At which point Eleanor - played by Katharine Hepburn - looks at the camera and says: Of course we all have knives drawn. It's the year 1183 and we're barbarians. Wednesday, September 08, 2010

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Monday, September 06, 2010

EDITORIAL: Join United Way's Day of Caring

The United Way of Williamson County is looking for a few good men and women - about 100 of them - to help out with its Day of Caring, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 10. Monday, September 06, 2010

Football memories last a lifetime

I never played under the Friday night lights. But from upstate New York to Central Texas, I've been salting away football memories for more than 40 years. Friday, September 03, 2010

EDITORIAL: Human work has worth and dignity

Our American way of life - which includes, but is not limited to, our standard of living - is a triumph of liberalism, in the classic sense of that word. Its roots are found in the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, as well as our own American Revolution. Friday, September 03, 2010

Challenges, thoughts on the New York mosque

By S.R. BROWN Special to the Leader Is a worship center by any other name, in the same location, still the same? I would think so, but recent events tell me that a great many people feel otherwise. Wednesday, September 01, 2010

EDITORIAL: A generation that's now vanishing into memory

After six bloody years of fighting, World War II - arguably the 20th century's pivotal event - came to an end 65 years ago today, when Japanese authorities formally surrendered aboard the USS Missouri, docked in Tokyo Bay. A war that had taken more lives, cost more money and affected more people than any other war in our planet's history was finally over. Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Employee Manual promotes fairness for all

The Williamson County Commissioners Court adopted a new version of our Employee Manual recently, since the previous one had not been updated in seven years. This manual is part of the larger Budget Order, which is the compilation of county regulations and policies approved each year. Monday, August 30, 2010

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Monday, August 30, 2010

EDITORIAL: Round Rock and ACC make good partners

More than two years of hard work has paid off, as classes began this past week at Austin Community College's eighth, newest and largest campus - located right here in Round Rock on a 60-acre tract just south of University Boulevard. Monday, August 30, 2010

'And even now, I bear the mark of nails'

So let me be sure I've got this straight in my own head: We have, as this is written, lost 4,415 of our bravest young men and women to the War in Iraq. We have spent more than $750 billion during the course of a seven-year campaign, which we embarked upon to protect and defend the people of a Muslim nation. And yet Muslims here, on our own shores, had better watch their step. And they may build their houses of worship only where the rest of us say they can. Friday, August 27, 2010

EDITORIAL: Protecting the 'least of these'

The arrest of a former guard who worked at T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center - and facts uncovered during an investigation into the mistreatment of women being transported from that facility - raise questions beyond the crimes Donald Charles Dunn allegedly committed. More on that in a minute. Friday, August 27, 2010