Winds Aloft

In this proposal, West Seventh and Eighth streets would be converted into one-way roads between Rock and Church Streets. Traffic on Eighth would travel east, while Seventh would travel west. Additionally, parking on the Square is maintained on the courthouse side of the road, while the existing parking in front of businesses is replaced by a widened pedestrian area. Dedicated turn lanes are also added at the Austin Avenue intersections with Seventh and Eighth.

Downtown Georgetown Conversion: Are we sure this would work?

Clark Thurmond

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

As of Monday afternoon, we are waiting to see what tomorrow brings at the polls. But today, we’ve heard lots of complaints about what everyone says is a chaotic, and indefensible, arrangement of precincts and voting locations. I’m cool since I vote at city hall, and I know where it is.

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Winds Aloft: "Now we’re even"

Clark Thurmond

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Monday morning’s gloomy overcast, atop a damp, chilly air below, closed out what must be the best Christmas season we’ve had in years — brilliant blue skies above scattered, milk-glass clouds, never too thick to block the sun, and day after day of Texas in early winter.

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Winds Aloft: Change needed for internet laws

Clark Thurmond

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Let’s say there’s a squabble in your neighborhood association and a neighbor, to cause you pain, sends us a letter to the editor saying that she saw you shoplift a towel at Walmart. If we printed the letter, your lawyer would tell you to sue both your neighbor and the newspaper for libel.