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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
by Jerrie Champlin President, League of Women Voters-Comal Area As the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 violent attack on our democracy approaches, laws passed in several states including Texas limit our freedom to vote ...
by Annalisa Peace Executive Director of the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance According to our members in Bulverde, it looks like trenching and installation of water lines to supply the Honey Creek Ranch MUD are progressing. ...
by Annalisa Peace Executive Director, Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance Texas voters can soon weigh in on potential changes to the state’s Constitution regarding a variety of issues, including county infrastructure. Election day is Nov. 2, ...
by Dr. Dorothy Overman Former Comal County Health Authority and New Braunfels Family Practitioner Finally Delta variant is releasing its hold on us. Locally and all of Texas is seeing less new cases and less ...
by Jerrie Champlin President, League of Women Voters-Comal Area Texas has some of the most-restrictive voting laws in the nation and not coincidentally, low voter turnout. Voter turnout has shown some improvement in recent years ...
by Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-73 Texas House of Representatives House Democrats are as good about sowing disinformation on election reform as they are at spreading COVID-19 all over Washington. Complicit in this campaign of dishonesty ...
by Faye Crowell, MHS, PA-C Mother of 7-year-old Specht Elementary student and physician assistant practicing allergy/immunology The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. I am finding myself in situations recently where it is apparent that many ...
by the Hill Country Alliance (Editor’s Note: This opinion piece has been edited for clarity and to include background information in hyperlinks.) Hill Country Alliance (HCA) is submitting comments to the Texas Water Development Board’s ...
by Rep. Erin Zwiener Texas State Representative for District 45 (Hays County) Let’s talk about the grid and the current Electric Reliability Council of Texas conservation notice. 1st off: #ERCOT’s current conservation notice is this: ...
by Dr. Dorothy Overman Former Comal County Health Authority and Family Medicine Practicioner Comal County’s numbers of Covid cases is wavering a little. The total number of cases has increased but not significantly. There has ...
by Mark Friesenhahn My name is Mark Friesenhahn and I live in southwest Comal County. I am a lifetime Texan and proud to live in the Hill Country. I am however, becoming concerned about the ...
by Annalisa Peace Executive Director, Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance (GEAA) Coming up next week are several great bills. We hope you will take the time to tap the links provided below and register your support ...
by Kate Fraser Mother of Canyon High School student, Comal ISD teacher, and administrator of Open Comal Schools Safely Facebook page (Editor’s Note: Comal ISD Board of Trustees on March 5 scheduled a special March ...
by Rep. Kyle Biedermann, Texas House of Representatives District 73 Judge Maya Gamble, of the 459th District Court, ruled on Friday, March 5, to reverse and vacate the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) granting ...
by Kendalia-based Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Each year, thousands of animals, including bobcats, coyotes, foxes, wolves, snakes and many others, are unethically hunted during wildlife killing contests/competitions. Due to a lack of regulation these animals ...
by Donna Campbell, M.D. Republican Texas State Senator for District 25 (Canyon Lake) I know you are frustrated, cold, concerned, and have never been more ready for warmer Texas weather. In-between power outages, my staff ...
by Mike Viesca Executive Vice President of Public Affairs for Pedernales Electric Cooperative Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) understands many of their members have been without power, some for an extended period of time, and the ...
by Krystal Thompson Mother of two remote learners at Garden Ridge Elementary School (Editor’s Note: This OP/ED was written in response to a Friday, Jan. 5 email to parents from Comal ISD Board of Trustees ...
Letter to the Editor by Roxanna Deane, President League of Women Voters of the Comal Area A record number of voters cast their ballots in Comal and Guadalupe counties before Tuesday’s General Election. The New ...
Letter to the Editor: My family and I have resided in New Braunfels for over 25 years and our family’s roots in Texas go back to over six generations. We have family members that have ...
Letter to the Editor: In the contest for Comal County Commissioner, Precinct 3, Colette Nies is challenging incumbent Kevin Webb. Over the past few months, Colette Nies has listened and learned more about the proposed ...
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