Can anyone disagree that America needs to end poverty in children? But the universal question is how?

When Peggy McCormick returned to her farm she was greeted with a horrific sight. The battle had been waged on her property and dead Mexican soldiers had been left where they died. She approached Sam Houston for help in burying them and was refused. Tradition has it that he told her; “Madam, …

See how many names you recognize from Baytown’s past.

Just as my overtaxed mind was desperately searching for a column topic, I received an email from lifelong friend Sue Carr, who lives in a bustling suburb of metropolitan Sweeny with her hunky husband David. She had a question for me.

Remember when the children were little and you finally got them bathed and into their Star Wars pajamas?

After the siege of the Alamo resulted in the massacre of the Texian garrison holding the fort, Santa Anna’s Mexican army began a march towards town of Harrisburg. Sam Houston reached Gonzales a few days later, just after word of the fall of the Alamo was received. Thousands of settlers in th…

News about a new San Jacinto Elementary School – in the making on Market Street not far from the existing campus -- caught the attention of this proud alumna.  A groundbreaking ceremony was held in November last year, and construction is expected to reach the finish line in December this year.

Recently, I had what you might call an “out-of-body experience,” and it took me the rest of the day to return to semi-normal. Wearily, I finally called it a long, confusing day and went to beddy-bye.

Last week, Sun readers were asked “On whom do you place more blame for the current border crisis?”

A young person once told me that the Bible was just stories made up to keep people in line. That Jesus was nothing but a myth. I was dumbfounded. I told them, “But because of Him, songs and books have been composed, holidays are celebrated, great churches have been built and the world has be…

The list of villains in the Texas power crisis is growing. The Texas Railroad Commission finds itself in the crosshairs of irate politicians.

Have you ever wondered who assigned colors to political parties? Why do Democrats get blue, a calm and tranquil color, but Republicans get stuck with red, a color that is alarming, angry, fear and danger? Political colors are used to represent a political ideology, movement or party.

Before the mega-markets we have today, people shopped at small (by today’s standards) family-run, neighborhood grocery stores. They had to be within walking distance so they were scattered all over town. Back in the day, if families had a car at all, they only had one. In 1931 the locally ow…

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You always hear people say “children are resilient.” And this is true. I’ve seen it. I’m experiencing it within this pandemic. And while evidence points to the validity of this adage, there are still children who find it hard to bounce back.

Now, I don’t know Andrew Kent. Never met him. Never will. He lives in Vancouver, Wash.

Last week, Baytown Sun readers were asked “To what extent do you support or oppose the CDC’s decision to relax its social distancing guidelines from 6 feet to 3 feet for children in schools?”

My how the zoo has changed. I had not visited the Houston Zoo in many years, but went with my great-boys during spring break recently. The habitats seemed to have more space for the animals and attempted to more closely recreate their homes in the wild. 

The legislative session is about to hit its stride, so I thought readers would be interested in the campaign finance reports of local state reps and local state senators. Let’s follow the money and find out who is buttering their bread.

We moved into the funeral home just before school started. I was eight and didn’t want to leave our country home, but Papa had to take over the family business. School was tougher than I thought it would be.

When I started writing this column a couple of years ago I decided up front that I didn’t want to just repeat the same Baytown stories which been retold, reprinted, and republished. My aim was to add new details, find untold stories, and maybe even correct mistakes in the existing narrative.…

The 10 most-read articles on baytownsun.com for the week of March 15-21, by the number of page views, were