12/07/02:To protect and to save
Police cars emblazoned with advertising an innovative way to serve economically

11/30/02:Tax the right people
Legalizing drugs would allow government to tax largest money-making deal in town

11/16/02:Politics as unusual
Two measures off national radar produced interesting results, contemplation

11/09/02:Arming America Country's academic elite showed political bias by accepting gun-control search

11/02/02:Beyond doubt
Executions should precede once sensible appeals exhausted, guilt a certainty


10/26/02:Can the idea
Jeffords wants to force Americans to recyle, a push that's been crushed

10/05/02:Not flying
Controversy still swirling around Kickapoo Airpark

09/28/02:Cough it up
Today's budget woes a cause for serious talk of tax reform

09/14/02:Playing dodge ball
'Punishing' corporations that remain here force the cost onto American consumer

09/07/02:Stifling creative minds
Hero of the industrial age would have failed under today's bureaucracy

08/31/2002:Price-fixing
Paying police, firefighters comparably silences discussion, handcuffs taxpayers

08/24/2002:More millionaires
Theory puts government spending in a way Americans can relate

08/17/2002:Memories of Bob
Some 'crooks' more honest than legitimate businessmen when it comes to loans

08/10/2002:Making progress
After turbulent start, Burk housing corporation is developing promising plans

06/22/2002:Endangered humans?
Sensationalists would have us believe DDT insecticide's killing us off

06/15/2002:Bringing up Babes
Commissioners shouldn't be in business of enforcing their moral code on others

06/08/2002:Fizzled to a halt
Anti-globalization demonstrators organize protest, find themselves without an audience

06/01/2002:All for show
While trade embargo should be lifted, Castro still continues to manipulate Carter

05/25/2002:Unarmed, unready
Ruling takes source of self-defense out of airline pilots' hands

05/18/2002:In the zone
Burk massage therapist nearly loses business, disputed by faceless moaner

05/11/2002:Hit and miss
Youthful activists don't always find political arena a welcoming environment

05/04/2002:'As a child'
Despite age, popularity, Beazley landed on death row, exactly where he belongs

04/27/2002:Attracting interest
Wichita Falls, Burkburnett elections give voters unique opportunities for 'change'

04/20/2002:No higher authority
United Nations must remember we answer only to the Constitution

04/13/2002:Watch your back
Annexed citizens pleading their case lose out when left out of the discussion

04/06/2002:Private matter
Struggling Postal Service might make profit if it operated in a free market

03/30/2002:Picking your pockets
City Council debates tax exemptions that keep money from government coffers

03/16/2002:What a hoot
Zealous group trying to bar door of 'delightfully tacky' sports bar

03/09/2002:Flooded by foolishness
EPA devalued environmentalist's land to protect the rights of non-visiting birds

03/02/2002:Smuggling freedom
Smokers cross state line to purchase cigarettes, avoid paying a 'sin tax'

02/16/2002:Minds made up
No one in the affected area sits on the powerful BHFC board

02/09/2002:Doesn't make cents
Congress needs to realize that economy can't be jumpstarted by raising wages

02/02/2002:Explain something
If $5,400 per child isn't enough to keep things repaired, where's that money going?

01/26/2002:Adding insult to injury
Burk ballot offers proposition promises taxation without representation

01/19/2002:Hitting close to home
Pay more attention to local government; has greater effect on your life than D.C.

01/12/2002:Center of the storm
Public notice puts corporation's 'true' intentions out in the open


01/05/2002:Unrestrained Congress forced to acknowledge pay raise, unlike some of our public officials


12/22/2001:Caught catching up
Berzina receives 'a little' pay raise behind City Council's closed doors

12/15/2001:Politics as unusual
County commissioners a solid board working as well as you could hope

12/08/2001:Wish list
WFISD spared no effort to promote idea district's facilities in dire need of repair


12/01/2001:Feeling a draft
Today's war on terrorism no reason to initiate forced government service


11/24/2001:Lawless 3 percent
Government unnecessarily cracking down in a self-serving attempt to exercise power

11/17/2001:Being bullied
Government rules aimed to protect us allowed hijackers to take out WTC

11/10/2001:For what they are
Settlement with Big Tobacco nothing more than a high-dollar extortion scheme

10/27/2001:Outbreak of smarts
While gun-control advocates lick wounds, gun-control activists lick their chops

10/20/2001:Dirty hands
Rep. Paul's legislation provides creative approach to fighting air piracy, terrorism

10/13/2001: Unfair practices
Government allows for free market until foreign competitors come into play

10/06/2001: The other war
While law enforcement focused on drugs, Americans became terrorists' victims

10/06/2001: The other war
While law enforcement focused on drugs, Americans became terrorists' victims

09/22/2001: Deserved better
Hijacked passengers should have been armed with more than plastic butter knives

09/15/2001: Rude awakening
Maybe now Congress, president will see necessity for a swift military solution

09/08/2001: Immigration = jobs
Fear of influx puzzling since it's good for country, economy

08/25/2001: Body shop of horrors
Burkburnett businessman must keep his 'clunkers' out of plain sight

08/18/2001: Calling a snake a snake
California's legislators thought they could write law in defiance of free market rules

08/11/2001: Dropping bombs
1945 an exercise in good sense

08/04/2001: Who's the boss?
Let commissioners know how public feels about tax increases

07/28/2001: A tough sell
Gun laws don't make society safer, only makes criminals work harder

07/21/2001: Waste of money
Subsidized journey to Germany failed to uncover any worthwhile benefits

07/14/2001: Physicians for Peace
Eid Mustafa and others share knowledge and techniques with those less fortunate

06/16/2001: In the driver's seat
Altman's 'Gang of Five' managing to overturn the mayoral election of 2000

06/02/2001: Not so fast
Time has come for Congress to seriously consider not giving millions to the U.N.

05/26/2001:Abroad on your buck
City officials will be frivolously frolicking in Europe


05/19/2001:Not without a fight
Prisoner held captive over trees, shrubs

05/12/2001:Worthless feel-goods
Hate crime bill is style over substance

05/05/2001:Paying double
All this money pouring into government coffers makes state wealthy beyond reason

04/21/2001:Burk questions
Anytime government asks your opinion, give it to them

04/14/2001:Tax collectors
Withholding turns every employer into an unpaid government agent


04/07/2001:No, Chicken Little
Bush's flip-flop on environmental issues based on political, economic reality

03/31/2001:Physician, lobby thyself
Doctors not paid to sway political opinion

03/24/2001:Affectionately
Criticism born not out of hate, but love

03/17/2001: Road to hell
Good intentions of preschool investigation ruined the lives of innocent people


03/10/2001: Better solution
Proposed bill wouldn't go far enough to keep America's promise to retirees

03/03/2001: Lighting up Smoking included on restaurant's menu

02/24/2001: Repealed estate tax allows you to do as you wish

02/17/2001: Governmental bodies decide for us, but they're only human

02/10/01Authors of our Constitution were not opposed to deep religious conviction

02/03/01Nominations of key figures swift, controversial

01/13/01 At long last
Eight years of Clinton, thankfully, comes to a joyous conclusion

01/13/01 Thugs and bullies
Old Man Winter brought out truckers with hearts as cold as ice

12/23/00 Cyber freedom
Internet serves to promote free speech

12/09/00 Loose cannons
Border Patrol agents could use more training

12/09/00 Town hall meetings
They can be good for the vocal chords

12/02/00 Annexation
Was it really worth it to the city?

11/24/00 Gridlock

11/18/00 Political chicanery Pre-election and post-election nonsense

11/10/00:Ban it?
What kills 15 high school kids annually?

10/28/00:Ballot box muscle
Initiatives empower average citizens

10/21/00:Questionable record
Is the DARE program working?

10/14/00:Libertarian candidate
The media don't tell you about Browne

10/07/00: Not 'one of them'
Officials show disdain for Lueck

09/22/00: Free market
Let the private sector solve water woes

09/16/00: Take the gloves off
Political discord is a beautiful thing

09/09/00: Official taste
Zoning laws can stifle free speech

09/02/00: It doesn't seem fair
Taxes go up, annexees services don't

08/28/00:  The 2 percent plan
Lawmakers' ability to raise taxes should be capped at a lower percentage

08/21/00:  Conflict of interests
Council members should not be voting and bidding on city contracts


08/14/00:  Raise a fuss
Tell the commissioners you don't want a tax hike

08/07/00:  Who controls your destiny?
Local political issues are matters that you can do something about


07/31/00:  Blame misassigned Juries in the tobacco and Waco cases
Bury the concept of responsibility

07/24/00:  A political rebuke
Tennessee residents revolt against money-grubbing lawmakers

07/17/00:  Drawing the line in Nevada
Do Americans still cherish determined opposition to government tyranny?


07/10/00:  An unhealthy mixing of politics and medicine: The AAP wants doctors to dictate to parents how to raise their kids

07/03/00:  Warm up that propaganda machine! City leaders must think we're too dumb to know we're in a drought

06/26/00:  Who are they protecting? The EPA bans chlorhrifos, which shoulc make the fire ants very happy

06/19/00:  Worth fightin' over
Our most precious natural resource has been in the news a lot lately

06/12/00:  People input
Burkburnett leaders begin to grasp the idea of citizen involvement

6/05/2000: The raise game
County commissioners should be wary of requests for hefty pay hikes

5/29/2000: "Like most men my age, thoughts of the draft filled my teen-age mind"

05/15/2000: "Remembering Kent State, keep the atmosphere of the era in mind"

05/01/2000: "Rest easy, peasants of Burkburnett-- the zoning emergency has been solved with lightning speed."

04/24/2000: "Wichita County Commissioners finally show good sense in getting out of boondoggle"

04/17/00: An overdue retirement

04/10/2000: "Burkburnett bureaucrats want to 'save' us from foolishly using our property'"

04/03/2000: "What 'Population Bomb?'"

03/27/2000: "The result of pressures to ban DDT is an increase in malaria"

03/20/2000: "Burkburnett residents should read the proposed zoning ordinance"

03/13/2000: "The assumption that 'gun control' means less violence is dead wrong"

03/06/00: "The subject of history is being neglected in educationto our disadvantage"

02/28/00: "The government is using tax dollars to lobby itself on the environment"

02/21/00: "A third party would give voters the chance to defeat business as usual"

02/14/00: "We need to take steps now to avewrt the imminent shoe epidemic"

02/07/00: "It should be more painful to pay your federal income tax bill"

01/31/00: "My doctor told me it is my fault I'm fat, but what does he know"

01/24/00: " Network programs spread drug war propaganda for your tax dollars"

01/17/00: "More proof that burdensome federal red tape needs to be pruned"

01/10/00: "In Wisconsin, it is a crime not to hire a convicted child murderer"

01/03/00: " American soldiers toppled fascism and changed warfare as we knew it"

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