Helping Seniors Find Discounted High- Speed Internet Services

Dear Savvy Senior, Do you know where I can find cheaper high-speed internet services for my home? I’m 70-years old and live strictly on my Social Security and would like to find something faster and less expensive than I currently have.

2 Cents Worth

I'll tell you one thing for sure, the wind knows how to blow, I never saw the like and I've lived in West Texas all my life.

CHRISTMAS TIME WITH DONNIE, LUM AND ABNER

When Donnie Pitchford of Carthage was in college, the campus radio station played old time radio programs. Donnie became a big fan of Lum and Abner, a radio show that was on the air from 1931 to 1954. The program began with the ringing of an old timey telephone.

Christmas

I hope you finished your Christmas shopping on time! If you're like me, you'll be running around last minute wrapping gifts on the 23rd in a panic, realizing you have to find an open store early on Christmas Eve to buy some last-minute items. The Christmas season has such a fascinating history.

Faces & Places

“Just a Moment” by Max Lucado It all happened in a moment, a most remarkable moment. As moments go, that one appeared no different that any other. If you could somehow pick it up off the timeline and examine it, it would look exactly like the ones that have passed while you have read these words.

State’s workforce surpasses pre-pandemic high

The Texas labor market exceeded the previous prepandemic high in February 2020 by hitting just under 13 million nonagricultural jobs in November, the Texas Workforce Commission reported last Friday. The adjusted jobless rate was 5.2% last month, down slightly from the previous month.

Old Glory News

That Anita Dozier is out gallivanting around again. That’s wonderful. That means she’s able to get about once again after her surgery. She had quite a time of it. So good to see her getting out again. Sure appreciate her doing the news while I was gone. Boy talk about a weather change.

How Older Drivers Can Save on Auto Insurance

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you provide any tips to help seniors reduce their auto insurance premiums? I just got hit with a 15 percent increase on my car insurance and am looking for ways to save.

Politics: You can smell it in the air

I would like to open this editorial by first extending my gratitude to Sue Jane Sullivan. Sue has been writing words of encouragement to our readers through her weekly column, Check Your Mirrors, for so long, I honestly can’t remember when she started.

2 Cents Worth

Joe Pat and Carol are sad this morning, and thanks to all of you that have called to see if his folks are okay, and if it got our home in Kentucky. It went 5 miles north of us and cut a path of destruction that breaks your heart.