A recent U.S. intelligence report re-confirmed several other studies that the Russian government has an ongoing program to limit oil and natural gas production in the U.S.
Those finding are documented in an analysis released Jan. 6 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which includes information from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA).
“West of the Pecos” are four words that used to be synonymous with “wild and wooly.”
But from the 1820s to the mid 1870s, “West of the Colorado” would have been an equally suitable phrase for describing unsettled Texas.
The Colorado and its tributaries were the line of demarcation between settled and wild Texas for at least a decade after the Civil War. Even into 1880-81, before the Texas and Pacific Railroad finally made it across West Texas, “West of the Colorado” meant way out there.
Crime was a particular problem, especially state coach robbing.
Last Tuesday, the last day of January, I had to turn the air conditioner to “cool” because I was sweating through my fleece-lined leggings. These are the same fleece-lined leggings that I had worn under my slacks during the week before because the wind chill factor was under twenty degrees. But, the people in my office did not appreciate my dilemma.
They’re mere “blips” on the screen of educational innovation, now in a handful of major cities. Their name sounds like a house number, and youngsters therein are challenged to “dig deep” as a core of teachers--largely volunteers--help children 6-18 express themselves through--of all things--writing.
“The Coffee that Won the West” actually came from the East coast.
And no, the company that roasted and packaged the coffee beans that helped fuel Manifest Destiny did not have a nine-letter name beginning with “S.” The brand that helped western types get up in the morning and stay at it during the day was Arbuckles’.
Anyone who had a connection to the oil and gas industry felt the power of federal bureaucracy during the eight year Barack Obama governed the nation from the White House. The industry, however, did not know magnitude of all of the new federal regulations until last week when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California wrote in the Washington Post that the Federal Register, where all new regulations are published, hit 97,110 pages in 2016 alone.
The Texas Department of Transportation announced this week that the US Department of Transportation selected Texas as one of 10 states selected as a proving ground for automated vehicles.
TxDOT is partnering with Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research, Southwest Research Institute and 32 municipal and regional partners. Initial testing will take place on closed research proving grounds, a TxDOT press release reads.
I just left Taco Tuesday. Early Tuesday evening, it’s the place to be. At least that’s what it looks like. I’m not sure how many tacos that place puts out in the hours between five and seven o’clock on Tuesday nights, but it’s a lot.
If the old joke had whiskers, they’d drag the floor. You’ve heard it--the one about a church with two worship services held concurrently at opposite ends of the building. The pastor announced baptismal services for the upcoming Sunday, with “infants to be baptized at both ends.”
Switch now to the “here and now.” A recently renovated Texas church also has concurrent services--one in the sanctuary and the other in a new, all-purpose venue down the hall, more than the length of a football field away. Each service, as one might guess, has age-sensitive music styles.
Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), faced Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Jan. 18 during his confirmation hearing.
Democrats explored his record as Oklahoma’s Attorney General trying to create some sort of problem with his relationship with the oil and gas industry and Pruitt’s lawsuits against former President Obama’s federal regulatory agencies, including EPA, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Interior, and others.
