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.
He frequently took jabs at pomp, sparred with circumstance and flat-out deflated folks too full of themselves, determined never to join the group. In all of this and more, he smiled, confidently moored to Christian linchpins that kept him focused on the “main thing being the main thing.”
Dr. Paul Powell was felled by a stroke last month. He was 83. Pews were packed in the chapel of Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler. (It was formerly the sanctuary where he preached more than a thousand sermons and conducted hundreds of funerals and weddings during his 17-year tenure.)
Taxpayers please call city hall and find out when is the street paver getting some more streets done. Remember we the taxpayers deserve all the streets being fixed.
Also if the leaders would make everyone get permits, we might have some money coming in to fix the streets. They say they have a pay-out plan. No one ever offered me one. Who keeps the books on the pay-out plan?
The President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on January 3, in another last minute attack on the nation’s oil and gas industry, that it will consider revising standards for oil and gas waste as a result of another legal settlement with environmental groups.
The agreement, reached just before Christmas and finalized in a consent decree on December 28, requires the agency to review the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) for possible changes that could classify oil field waste as hazardous materials and require more stringent controls.
