TEXAS HAS A WATER CRISIS.

The harder question is who's responsible for fixing it.A few weeks ago, the Texas Water Development Board put a number on what many of us in rural Texas have been feeling for years: $174 billion.

ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE

Infrastructure is arriving in West Texas faster than civic understanding can keep up. That’s not an insult. It’s a description of the speed of technology versus human learning curves.When new industries blow in on a big wind, they don’t come as a single project with ribbon cuttings and handshakes.

BROADCASTING SMALL TOWN SPORTS

In some small towns there is no newspaper or radio station, so ordinarily small-town sports don’t get any media coverage. That has changed with a group called Texas 1A Fan that started broadcasting games of 1A schools on the internet.

LOW-COST SMARTPHONE PLANS FOR BUDGET-MINDED SENIORS

Dear Savvy Senior, What are the absolute lowest-cost smartphone plans for seniors who mainly talk and text but need a little cellular data for email and occasional use? I’m currently paying $40 a month and hoping to cut that down. --Looking to SaveDear Looking, You’re asking a smart question.

Old Glory News

We have had some pretty nice weather, it is starting to sure warm up. Still no rain. I read an article last week about our water problem. I sure did not want to see that. I think we all need to pray for rain.This month is going to be gone soon.

GOT BEES? CALL BEE BUSTERS

Tim Cleeverdon of Midland calls himself a bee wrangler. He started keeping bees as a hobby and now has a business of helping people get rid of unwanted bees. He offers his services to a large area.“We reach out to the New Mexico state line, San Angelo, Alpine, Lubbock.

GABE

It is a sad inevitability that a school teaching career will come with heartache, none greater than losing a student or former student to death through illness or accident.

Old Glory News

Oh my, it got a little cool yesterday and last night. The norther came in with a bang and blew hard. Today is a lovely day, no wind. The wind has been blowing hard a lot this past week and dried up what little rain we got. We just got a half inch to start with so it did not last long.

UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL SECURITY BREAKEVEN AGE

Dear Savvy Senior, I’m trying to figure out the best time for my wife and I to start taking our Social Security retirement benefits and would like to understand the breakeven age. What can you tell me?

Old Glory News

Well the rain cameand the rain went away. We watched the clouds every day for a while and it just would not stop at our house. However we did enjoy some cooler and cloudy weather which was very pleasing. I think it would of been a little hot, had it not been cloudy.