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Fireworks, veteran crisis hotline garnered few calls amid New Year celebrations FacebookTwitterEmail Nehemiah Nulton sells fireworks to groups of people arriving at his Alamo Fireworks stand on East Borgfeld Road on Dec. 28. A citywide celebration on New Year’s Eve led to only one citation and 21 warning for fireworks use.Tom Reel /Staff photographer If you were in San Antonio on New Year’s Eve, it’s almost certain you heard or saw the barrage of loud fireworks that lit up the skyline, sc...

Submitted by William Elder. With change comes hope--- so needed in these troubled times. But… With hope comes change--- even more needed in these troubled times. “Hope your banged-up thumb gets better,” is a good thing to say and wish. “Stop slamming your thumb with that same damned hammer,” is an even more sympathetic and…

Submitted by William Elder. Not before, not when— unfortunately— but after you have bitten into a rotten apple do you realize that you have gone so wrong. Too late to avoid it and the rotten consequences of your mistake. But fortunately not too late to spit, with consequences only to your pride and embarrassment. Thank goodness you don’t have to swallow and endure worse consequences. Spit time has come with Donald Trump. The man was a rotten apple from the beginning. Too few in the Electo...

Submitted by William Elder. A couple of days ago I submitted a piece entitled, “None Dare Call It Treason.” I meant every word of it, but I withdraw it now. Too many bitter words. Too dated after Biden got confirmed in his national victory. Time now, not to come together— don’t be silly— but to at least disengage enough to find common ground over which to scrabble the contested acres ahead. What can bring us together for the future? Not platitudes. Not ideologies. Not our noses togeth...