SENIOR TRAVEL DISCOUNTS: HOW TO SAVE ON YOUR NEXT TRIP

Dear Savvy Senior, My husband and I are retiring later this year and hope to travel more while we’re still healthy and active. Our budget will be tighter, so every dollar counts.

VISA DELAYS LEAVE TEXAS FARMERS SHORT FOR PLANTING SEASON

Texas producers are entering the 2026 planting season without the H-2A guest workers they spent months trying to bring across the border.

A.I. DOESN’T ATTEND MEETINGS AND RECORDS DON’T REPORT THEMSELVES

If you want entertainment, you have seemingly limitless options: Cable, network TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube… the list goes on and on.

WHAT THE PANHANDLE KNOWS ABOUT LIVING ON THE MARGINS

A WATER HOSE AGAINST THE WIND:My best friend's father lost his home this week.The entire house — gone in a few minutes. A spark, forty-mile-an-hour winds, drought-cured grass, and that was it. They tried to fight it with a garden hose. They escaped with the clothes on their backs.

THE HISTORIAN OF ROUTE 66 IN TEXAS

Delbert Treu ranches near the panhandle town of Alanreed on the old Route 66, now IS 40. He and his wife Ruth founded the Devil’s Rope Museum in nearby McLean in 1991. It’s a Western Heritage museum full of barbed wire items.

Faces & Places

“But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item.

Summer School

Sue Jane Sullivan Regardless of job or age, summer seems to be the time when we all experience some change of schedule. If you are an educator or student, the welcome nine weeks away from the classroom gives you the chance to rest and rejuvenate.

I HAVE A LIGHTER IN MY POCKET BUT NOT MANY FRIENDS

I’m going break an internal rule of mine in that I am going to give editorial commentary on information not yet published.

THE RUNOFF BALLOT IS WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

The easiest election to miss may be one of the most important ones on the calendar. Next Tuesday, May 26 — the day after Memorial Day — Texans will return to the polls for the primary runoff election. It comes at an inconvenient time. School is wrapping up.

THE OWNER OF BRUSHWORKS

Kay Smith of Big Spring has done police work. She had a career as a nurse and retired from the VA where she worked in a hospital. Above all, she is an artist. She did art part time while working and now full time as an established artist.