By Jimmy Patterson
Online Editor
SAN ANGELO — In 1981, Cindy Jordan was on top of the L.A. music world. Two years later things became even better. Jordan had written a song and taken it to Los Angeles radio stations, who fell in love with it. In 1983, that same song, “Jose Cuervo (You Are a [...]
MENARD — When Donna Putnam’s great-grandfather was a small boy in 19th-century Fredericksburg, he and another child were taken from their homes by Quixote Indians. One boy eventually returned home; Putnam’s great-grandfather remained and learned and lived as a Native American, eventually even marrying a Comanche. Ultimately, Putnam said, her great-grandfather would convert to [...]
By Jimmy Patterson
Editor
AUSTIN – A 2005 article in Texas Monthly magazine referred to Tom Craddick as everything from a Midland mud man to the most powerful politician in the state of Texas.
Craddick will tell you though that he is a Christian Catholic first and a Midland resident second.
But as dynamic a politician [...]
By Jimmy Patterson
I first heard about the idea on one of the morning news shows. And as soon as I heard it, I wanted to try it. Not because it was some fad or some get-rich-quick scheme or some tell-all book I figured I could write about the blogosphere.
No, this idea had legs. One [...]
By Jimmy Patterson
Editor
SAN ANGELO. The deeper we dig into our faith, the hungrier we become for an even greater knowledge and understanding of God. Such is the theory of Tom Zanzig (at right), keynote speaker at the annual Diocesan Conference Day, Feb. 3, at the San Angelo Convention Center. The conversion process, Zanzig said, [...]
By Jimmy Patterson
Editor
Since Mama died last January, Daddy has left Irving once to attend a stamp show competition in nearby Grapevine. (A show at which he won several honors, I might add). It’s been hard for Dad to get away. He hasn’t wanted to get too far from the house he and Mama lived in [...]
By Jimmy Patterson
Editor
MIDLAND — It is no doubt a widely held view that Catholics often fall into two categories: Cradle Catholics, or those born into the faith; and converts, who come into the church when they marry someone of the faith, often a cradle Catholic.
Not Glenn Jackson. He’s a convert, but he didn’t [...]
AUSTIN — Republican Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick fended off a coup attempt Tuesday by one of his former GOP allies, solidifying a levislative reign that’s come under criticism as too heavy-handed and undemocratic.
Craddick retained his powerful legislaive post after Rep. Jim Pitts, a Waxahachie Republican, dropped his bid to oust Craddick.
Craddick, who won the [...]
By Jimmy Patterson
Online Angelus Editor
Dad seems to be doing quite well these days making his way through his first November-December-January holiday stretch since Mama’s death last year, but the cruel turn of it all is that not only was Dad expected to handle his first Thanksgiving and his first Christmas without her, but December 31 [...]
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