Gary Borders
Gary Borders has been an East Texas journalist and editor for more than 30 years. He is currently the editor and publisher of the Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune and also writes online each week at garyborders.com.
During his career Gary has taught journalism at Kilgore College and served as editor and publisher of newspapers in Longview,Lufkin,Nacogdochesand San Augustine. He began writing a column in 1982 and has written at least once weekly since without fail, though there are quite a few he would like to take back. The New York Times News Service distributed his column nationally from 1995 through 2009. His pieces have been published in the Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Austin American-Statesman, Palm Beach Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and — his personal favorite — the Maui News.
Borders has published two collections of columns, the “Loblolly Chronicles” in 2010 and “Behind and Beyond the Pine Curtain” in 2005. The University of Texas Press published “A Hanging in Nacogdoches” in 2006, his account of a brutal murder in 1902 in the state’s oldest town, and the trial that followed. He is currently researching another book, but is nowhere close to being finished.
Borders and his wife, Dr. Julie Teel-Borders, a professor at LeTourneau University, live in Longview with their daughter, Abbie, a freshman at Longview High School. He also has two grown daughters, about whom he has been writing columns since Ronald Reagan was president. They have long ceased to be embarrassed about it, though Abbie protests occasionally.
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Airs Friday, June 2, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week Gary Borders remembers his Dad, The Sign Man, and the evolution of sign making.
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Airs Friday, March 10, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Borders remember back to his days Working At The Bottle Plant.
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Airs Friday, February 10, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Borders takes a real life look behind the phrase Boston Wicked Strong.
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Airs Friday, February 3, 2017, at 7:45 a.m . This week commentator Gary Borders decries the annual mutilation of Crape Myrtles.
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Airs Friday, December 2, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders is Trying to acquire patience
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