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168 stories found, listing (1 - 25)
Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
I've got a question for you to ponder this Sunday morning. Where the heck are we?I've been wondering about that since an ice storm watch was issued for "North Texas" a few weeks back. One of the "North Texas" counties included was Robertson.In its fo ...
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Published Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sloth was a bit disappointing in 2009. The Couch Potato portfolios can usually be relied on to score in the top 25 percent to 30 percent of competing managed funds. But they had no edge in 2009.Mind you, there were no disasters. It's just that Couch ...
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Published Sunday, January 24, 2010
Senior America has a problem. The end of the money is coming before the end of the month. Strangely, the more savings you have, the bigger the problem.Why is this happening? Call it "The Great Investment Income Famine." Retirees with savings have see ...
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Published Sunday, January 17, 2010
Did you ever catch yourself looking at something pretty and clever and wondering who created it?Lately, as I've sat at traffic lights beneath our new highway bridges, I've been enjoying the aesthetics incorporated into the structures. The murals at t ...
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Published Sunday, January 17, 2010
"You see, this consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? So the next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two D ...
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Published Sunday, January 17, 2010
Once the immediate task of providing medical care, food, water and temporary shelter for the living and burial for the dead is past, the tremendous task of rebuilding Haiti will commence. Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit agency, is poised to h ...
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Published Sunday, January 17, 2010
By FREDERIKA ZIPP
For several days last July, I traveled to Haiti. I'm a project manager for the non-profit organization Architecture for Humanity, and the purpose of the trip was to assess a couple of potential sites for future projects wit ...
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Published Thursday, January 14, 2010
We conclude our look at the slate of films waiting for us in the next 12 months. This week, remakes and sequels, once again, seem to be the name of the game. With new takes on classic materials dominating the theaters as they seem to do every year, l ...
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Published Thursday, January 14, 2010
I am always at least one step behind everyone else. I didn't get a Walkman until everyone else had one. Same goes for CD players, MP3 player, DVD, HDTV, Blu-Ray and who knows what else that I probably don't know about. iPhone? Yeah, that's another on ...
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Published Sunday, January 10, 2010
It's a frigid Friday afternoon and I'm spending some quality time on the tractor, feeding livestock and thinking about miserable cold-weather jobs.Feeding hay on a blustery winter day could certainly qualify as miserable. It's not something normal fo ...
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Published Sunday, January 10, 2010
Have you noticed that things aren't working quite as you hoped? I have, and it has made me want to hit back. When the prescription drug act was passed in December 2003, I had big-time misgivings. It bothered me that a Republican president would sign ...
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Published Thursday, January 07, 2010
When I first met Chris Cooper, it took me a few days and an Internet search to verify I'd been insulted.
I was fresh out of high school, the summer before I started college, and I began hanging out with people from my work. Coop was a good frie ...
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Published Sunday, January 03, 2010
I don't know about you, but I'm holidayed out. Can't stomach another bite of dressing, another sip of nog or another tender Christmas movie. I've read all the sweet family letters and cards I can handle for at least another 11 months.What I'm most si ...
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Published Sunday, January 03, 2010
I've been writing a newspaper column since January 1977. That's 33 years, 29 of them for syndication. It has definitely not been the same year, repeated 33 times. But there are patterns. And there are rules. There are things that you need to do if yo ...
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Published Sunday, December 27, 2009
I began training more than a year ago to run a marathon in San Antonio, but a day before the race I learned my sister had cataracts and, without eye surgery, was likely to go blind within a year.My sister, Leslie, is severely mentally retarded, but h ...
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Published Sunday, December 27, 2009
Well, now. We've made it, just barely, through another year. But it was really close, so I'm keeping my supply of candles, dehydrated meals, bottled water and extra propane for the outdoor grill/emergency kitchen. Buying more bullets wasn't possible, ...
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Published Sunday, December 20, 2009
By SCOTT BURNSIf you're about to make the plunge into a variable annuity with living benefits, I'd like to make a suggestion.Don't. Just as people were once urged to buy term life insurance and invest the difference rather than buy cash value life in ...
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Published Sunday, December 20, 2009
Out of that recliner, Jim Bob. Off the couch, Jerry Ned, and get your shoes on. It's time to go Christmas shopping.Yes, again. Christmas rolls around every year, ready or not. And obviously, you're not.After today we've got four shopping days left. W ...
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Published Sunday, December 13, 2009
A certain song gets stuck in my head about this time every year.Santa Baby has to be one of the cleverest holiday songs ever written. It's the Christmas wishes of a gold digger who has her Santa wrapped firmly around her little finger. Written by Joa ...
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Published Saturday, December 12, 2009
Now that College Station's red light cameras are kaput, there ought to be more merriness to go around the Brazos Valley this holiday season, flowing on and off our roadways and all around us. I think maybe there is.The other day on Texas Avenue, I sa ...
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Published Sunday, December 06, 2009
Sixty-four years after World War II ended, Buddy McGown experienced a hero's welcome.It was before daylight on Oct. 3, and Buddy was one of some 90 World War II vets gathering in the parking lot of the Conroe Target store for a trip to Washington.The ...
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Published Tuesday, December 01, 2009
In Texas the law is clear. Governing bodies must conduct the people's business in public or else face some serious penalties. This statute has protected the public and elected representatives alike for the past 42 years with a basic premise: Public b ...
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Published Sunday, November 29, 2009
"The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell." -- William J. BernsteinThe time is right for an investor's manifesto. And William J. Bernstein has written it. I won't say that it is the kind of world-changi ...
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Published Sunday, November 29, 2009
It's the tail end of a turkey weekend, so it's a good time for a potluck reading experience. Help yourself to any or all of these tidbits.A story on Page One of the Wall Street Journal last week said President Barack Obama is really getting into golf ...
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Published Friday, November 27, 2009
The Eagle used to run its Prognosticator Panel on Thanksgiving, but readers complained that 18 more turkeys were overkill. We tended to agree.Prog and Black Friday has been a perfect match ever since -- and more so now that we feature Michael "The Po ...
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