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We encourage community residents to share their opinions as a letter or guest column about the local issues we face. We reserve the right to refuse to publish submitted letters for general taste at the editor’s discretion. All letters must be signed. Published opinion letters do not necessarily reflect the views of My Canyon Lake, its Publisher, its staff or its advertisers.


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Opinion: Reporting That ‘Sewer Smell’ from Vintage Oaks Treatment Plant Could Cost You if SB 471 Passes

by Annalisa Peace Executive Director,  Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance You may recall that in February we alerted you about SB 471 by Senator Springer, one of the meanest bills we have ever seen. This bill directs the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality

May 9, 2023
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2023 Elections/Elections/Local News/Opinion

Opinion: Bills Before 88th Texas Legislature Would Usurp, Interfere with Local Elections

by Jerrie Champlin President, League of Women Voters of Comal Area Several bills being considered by the current 88th Texas Legislature seek to usurp or interfere with local control in a number of areas including election administration. The proposed legislation would rewrite

April 23, 2023
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Growth/Local News/Nature/Opinion

Opinion: Let Comal County Commissioners Know You Value Open Spaces and Clean Water

by Annalisa Peace, Executive Director of the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance According to a recent report in the San Antonio Express News, the City of New Braunfels will be built out by 2035. Already, growth is leapfrogging out into the unincorporated areas

February 23, 2023
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Lake & Rivers/Local News/Opinion

Opinion: Drownings Highlight Need to Prevent ‘Avoidable Situations’ at Canyon Lake Boat Ramps

by Doug Leecock Canyon Lake Boat Ramps Community Alliance The things that continue to resonate as we are working through developing long-term initiatives for improving access to Canyon Lake are safety and courtesy. As we saw just last week, two families are

June 9, 2022
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Local News/Opinion

Opinion: Happy Earth Day, Things Are Looking Up for Texas’ Environment

by Annalisa Peace Executive Director, Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance When people kill random innocents, it is called ‘terrorism.’ When corporations do it, it is called ‘an industrial accident.’ Sadly, a dysfunctional permitting process managed by the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

April 23, 2022
Jen Crownover
Local News/Opinion

Crownover Blasts State Legislator for ‘Ignorant Rant’ About Property Taxes

Comal County Pct. 4 Commissioner Jen Crownover, who represents Canyon Lake, took to Facebook yesterday to blast Texas State Rep. Steve Toth, a Republican who represents the Woodlands, for accusing county commissioners of setting new property tax rates and then pointing the

April 16, 2022
Vulcan Comal Quarry
Growth/Local News/Nature/Opinion

Opinion: TCEQ Stands with an Out-of-State Aggregate Behemoth Instead of Protecting Comal County’s Citizens

by Milann Guckian President, nonprofit Preserve Our Hill Country Environment  Volunteering to help protect our Hill Country is not the post-retirement job I asked for—but one I felt I must undertake. Born in Lockhart, my family’s roots are embedded here in the

February 5, 2022
Carolyn Besselman
Elections/Local News/Opinion

Opinion: LWV-CA Is Partisan, and the Group’s Belief in Voter Suppression Wrong

by Carolyn Besselman former President, Canyon Lake Republican Women I feel it’s time I weighed in on the Opinion piece that was published regarding the League of Women Voters-Comal Area (LWVCA) dated Dec. 30 and their so-called ‘nonpartisan’ message. First of all,

January 18, 2022

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