Our readers are puritanical?

Editor, Having just moved here from Houston, I found Mr. Krotz’s column needed some fact checks. His first statement, “Hurricane Harvey helped the Texas Congressional...

Independent Editorial: Before we get sent to the nervous hospital

There’s no doubt that unexpected things are coming at us faster and more intensely than we’re accustomed to. In the past couple of years...

Valero Pipeline – How can things get any worse?

How do you ship 350,000 barrels in a 200,000-barrel pipeline? Most pipelines are designed to transport crude oil from shale plays where frackers “produce” crude...

Valero Pipeline – What you see isn’t what you get

If you own half a pig, it’s your pig Diamond’s petition says, “Diamond Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Plains All American (PAA) Pipeline and...

Yet More Joy

Editor, While surely we all applaud the refreshed efforts at the restoration of the Joy Motel, I feel it necessary to address what I see...

Is Diamond honest?

We strive to live by the core values of safety, accountability, ethics and integrity, respect and fairness every day. – Plains All American Pipelines PAA, known...

Two-leggeds helping four-leggeds

Editor, What a generous community we live in. Our hearts are moved by all the creative efforts to help those suffering after Hurricane Harvey, from ECHO’s...

#resist

Last week the president who bragged about not paying income tax and who has never shown the American public his tax returns gave a...

The Inconvenient Truth about Diamond

“You’re gonna play climatologist tonight?” – Kellyanne Conway With a quick response, Senior Presidential Advisor Kellyanne Conway stopped CNN’s questions on the climate breakdown during...

Division needs welding

Editor, I wrote a letter to the editor that caused a genuinely unexpected backlash. As soon as the paper came out I received an...