Independent columns and analysis on local issues in Gainesville and Cooke County.
Imagine Washington announcing a camera network that logs our car trips. Cooke County did not have to imagine it: the courthouse bought one quietly. It is time to demand answers or cancel.
By late April, a Cooke County mailbox can sound heavier than it ought to. The wind comes across a hayfield, the gravel dust settles on the tires, and there it sits between seed catalogs and a bill fro
In 1862, slaveholders hanged forty non-slaveholding neighbors in Gainesville for opposing a rebellion built to protect the rich. That refusal, not grievance politics, is Cooke County's real root.
Cooke County is right to demand hard rules on data centers. But a server farm can be torn down. A platted, paved-over ranch is gone for good, and almost nobody is fighting that.
