Editorials

Hunting for The Texas Slam

Hunting for The Texas Slam

Hunting for The Texas Slam

During hunting season in Texas, hunters compete for the Texas Slam Award that goes to those who bag some trophy native deer and antelope. Hunting is good around Memphis, Texas, located on the southeastern edge of the panhandle.
Free Fridays aren’t free

Free Fridays aren’t free

Free Fridays aren’t free

This Saturday, November 11, the nation celebrates Veterans Day like it has annually since 1954.
2 Cents Worth

2 Cents Worth

2 Cents Worth

Well I don't know where it's a good morning or not, this time change always gets me out of sorts and in Kentucky it's even worse than it is in Texas. In Kentucky 5:00 pm is already dark and of course morning comes earlier so my sleep pattern is really messed up!!!!!!

Faces & Places

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ~Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life...

My Plea III

Lord, help help me to think before I speak Lord, help me to be happy no matter what I am going through Lord, help me to alwasy do the right thing Lord, help me to want more of you and less of material things Lord, help me to see the good in every one because you created u in your image. Amen
What am I missing here?

What am I missing here?

What am I missing here?

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty. —George Romney, 1964, Republican National Convention One year from now, we will have elected a...

The Local Holiday Economy

Essays from West of 98 Ah yes, it is time for the sights and sounds of the season. What are those sights and sounds you ask? The visions of family togetherness? Sharing a meal with people important to you? Celebrating the birth of a savior? Or….
Rotan ISD’s Super-in-transparent search

Rotan ISD’s Super-in-transparent search

Rotan ISD’s Super-in-transparent search

Now and then I like to capitalize on those little coincidences that allow one to draw humorous parallels in life, like when a news outlet covers an article about the governmental process and the expense of maintaining industrial-sized sewer systems in the same edition.
Karolyn is ready for anything

Karolyn is ready for anything

Karolyn is ready for anything

“I was going to paint and then after I had my first child discovered that you could not paint and take care of a baby, too,“ says Karolyn Rogers of Midland, “because you can get lost in a painting for twelve hours or more and I realized I could not do that.
2 Cents Worth

2 Cents Worth

2 Cents Worth

Ran wonderful rain, Joe says maybe the dry weather is over!!!!! Guess all of you are like me the time is fixing to change again, my poor sleep pattern is going to be crazy again. As Joe says 'Carol is hard to live with when her sleep pattern is messed up!!!!'