This Way to Texas

By LOU ANTONELLI
Managing Editor
It’s rained almost daily for the past four months. The ground is saturated; walking across grass is like stepping onto a wet scrub pad. When I moved to Texas in 1985, I was part of what was called at the time the Sunbelt migration....

 A friend and fan of mine says she is appalled I don't have an author's page on the web. She's offered to create one and load up some of my short fiction, which leads me to ask: Anyone have a favorite Lou Antonelli short story or want to recommend one...

Liberals went into journalism after World War II because they wanted to tilt the country to the left, after seeing the horrors of the war.
At the same time the Soviet Union was infiltrating American society with Communist agents. Joe McCarthy was excoriated at the time, but with a decade it was obvious he had been telling the truth - the government and seats of power were riddled with Communists...

 Thanksgiving is always problematic for small town weekly papers, which - in the U.S. - traditionally come out on Thursdays (I understand in Canada they come out on Tuesdays).
As one would suspect, my newspaper is not printed on Thursday, it's printed on Wednesday and goes out to subscribers in the mail Thursday. Because of the holiday, the paper this week goes in the mail Friday....