Gary Borders
Host of "Borderline"Gary Borders has been an East Texas journalist and editor for more than 40 years. He works now as a freelance writer, editor and photographer. You can see his work at garyborders.com. He has written for World Wildlife magazine, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer and Airstream Life.
During his career, Gary served as editor and publisher of newspapers in Longview, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Mount Pleasant, San Augustine, Cedar Park and Junction City, Kansas. He also taught journalism at Kilgore College. 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 retract. 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, which should be completed by the end of 2015. He is also threatening to release another collection of columns.
Borders and his wife, Dr. Julie Teel-Borders, a professor at LeTourneau University, live in Longview with their daughter, Abbie, a senior at Trinity School of Texas. 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, April 2, 2021, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders takes a bittersweet final visit to his late father-in-law's Farm before it's…
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Airs Friday, March 12, 2021, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders gets his Covid-19 Vaccination.
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Airs Friday, February 28, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders ponders the mysteries and magic of modern hearing aid technology as he…
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Airs Friday, February 21, 2020, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders laments the reality that it's difficult to go anywhere these days…
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Airs Friday, February 14, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders reviews some of the best books he read over the past year.
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Airs Friday, February 8, 2019, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders examines The Perils of Prescriptive Writing.
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Airs Friday, January 31, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders shares why the chorus "I ain’t gonna study war no more," from the old…
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Airs Friday, January 24, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders offers his argument that the decade will not end until Dec. 31, 2020.
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Airs Friday, January 17, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders offers his anual plea to stop mutilating crape myrtles.
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Airs Friday, January 10, 2020, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders looks at the magnets and stickers on his refrigerator, which remind him of…