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.
When an archaeologist found the skeleton buried beneath what once was the floor of Officers Quarters Number 4 at old Fort McKavett near Menard, he dug up a mystery.
Much is known of the history of Texas, but there are plenty of questions historians and archaeologists may never be able to answer. Like the mini-mystery of the bones under Officers Quarters Number 4.
Writing this on the eve of the inauguration of our new president, I am anxious to see what is in store for our country.
President or President Elect (depending on when you read this) Donald Trump has many claims of what he plans to change as our nation’s leader. What he can pull off and what that will look like is still a huge unknown.
One of Trump’s campaign pledges was major health care reform, first and foremost, repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Shortly after this column hits the newsstand, Donald Trump will have been sworn in, most of the parties will be over, and the movers will be adding up the bills for moving out and moving in. The outgoing family will be breathing a sigh of relief and the incoming family will be testing out the beds, looking for their laptops, and trying to find the bathrooms. Maybe they’ll be rethinking this idea of public service; but it is their victory, and we all wish them, and us, a peaceful transition.
Church marquees all over Arkansas touted the Razorbacks in the 1969 season’s so-called “game of the century.” Many messages something like: “Football is only a game. Eternal things are spiritual. Nevertheless, beat Texas.” (The Longhorns and the Razorbacks were ranked #1 and #2 nationally.)
UT prevailed, 15-14, thanks to a couple of fourth-quarter touchdowns. It took years for Arkansas fans’ breathing patterns to be fully restored, and for life grips to reach pre-game condition.
Crude oil prices should remain around $50 per barrel during 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Short-Term Energy Outlook released on Jan. 11.
EIA noted that its forecast has many uncertainties on both the supply and demand sides.
A heavy snowfall on Valentine’s Day would not be all that unusual on the high plains. But in Galveston?
No one’s alive to swear to it any more. We have only the musty record books and old newspapers to attest to the fact that on Feb. 14, 1895 it snowed 15.2 inches in Galveston, a city where even a temperature in the 40s is unusual.
Forty-five miles to the north, Houston got even more snow -- a staggering 22 inches. And in Beaumont, 28 inches fell.
I don’t usually like bugs, but I’ve had a few the last few months that really didn’t bother me. They didn’t bite, didn’t sting, and didn’t make noise when I was trying to sleep. Harmless.
I’d noticed a few of the little tiny “butterflies” back in the summer I really didn’t notice them until I was watching television at night and one would flitter around the television screen or the lamp shade. I’d slapped a few out of the air, leaving an “ashy” mark on my hand or the screen. Harmless.
