Opinion & Letters

To the Editor: The Blanco County Parade was wonderful, as always. I would like to thank all the people responsible for the veteran’s floats and acknowledgment afterward. That was very heart warming. We can never say "thank you" enough for what the past, present and future military have done and will do for us and our freedoms.

Dear Editor, We would like to extend our gratitude to all the local homeowners, ranchers, and contractors in our Great Little Town of Johnson City, Texas. Thank you for investing in our local economy by hiring contractors such as Roger Martinez, Lance Odiorne, Jose Martinez & Jimmy Smith who do fencing.

Dear Editor, Kudos to Lucky Lindy for "Reflections from on Hye" and the inaugural column, "Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On". This poignant recollection of an outstanding young man also contains a lesson for us all: not to allow a special achievement to be the high point of our lives but to be the lead-in for a lifetime of achievement and integrity. Thank you, Johnson City Record Courier Grace McLeod

Dear Editor, I went to the Grand Opening of our New Courthouse Annex this past Tuesday. If you were not there you missed out on a special time. We have come into the Twenty First Century with this new building. I applaud all our elected officials for a job well done. There seem to be a lot of questions here lately about how Blanco County and its many entities has been run or is being run. As Johnson City and Blanco County was being molded i ...

To the Editor: In cutting spending for birth control and voluntary sterilization, our state and national governments seem to be both foolish and short-sighted. Preventing run-away growth and its attendant products of air and water polluntion and global warming is much cheaper now instead of waiting until we have to pay for all those mouths that will need feeding, those minds that will need educating, those bodies that will need medical care, those greater ...

Dear Editor; In response to the article in your Feb 10th issue titled "What to Do With a Pot of Money", I would like to offer one correction: in the Feb 8th Commissioner’s Court meeting the amount in the Appraisal District account of the Agency Fund was said to be $285,000 - not $85,000 as reported in the newspaper article. Second, I would like to address some of the issues presented in the article.

Dear Editor, It does not surprise me how much the Johnson City community thought of Mr. Dwayne Hoppe. I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Hoppe about five years ago, and even though I only saw him mostly during hunting season, I felt really attached to him. My wife and I hunt the counts ranch, and he ran cattle on the neighboring ranch.

Dear Editor, Loughner, the Tucson shooter, is not the only person to subscribe to the idea that violence is an acceptable political tactic if voting doesn’t get the desired results. This is one in a string of events with this singular theme. Besides, who said he is one "unbalanced" gunman? That is just a convenient diagnosis. We need to take Loughner seriously because he is the most recent of a long list of similar attacks with n ...

Dear Editor, Almost every newscast I watch and newspaper I read contains stories of thieves, robbers, and scammers.　 But there are still honest people among us, I learned last Wednesday, two of them at the Valero service station on Highway 281 in Johnson City. 　　　 I was returning home from a funeral in New Braunfels and stopped for gasoline.　 I stuck my credit card in my pocket while I pumped the gas, then went inside to go to the restroom ...

Dear Editor, We’ve lost another good guy, and way too soon. If you didn’t know Dwayne Hoppe, or never heard him, crow like a rooster because you’ve been under a rock sound asleep. Dwayne was a true character in the very best sense of the word. He was one-of-a-kind and there won’t be another.