Brown: Best fundraiser yet for rehabilitation center
During 43 years, friends of the North Texas Rehabilitation Center have raised $7.2 million for patient therapy.
View ArticlePeople holding doctorates learning jobs hard to find
It was 25 years ago and I was visiting in the old Cow Lot Western Wear Store with a father who had both sons and daughters in college. They were the same age as my boys going to college.
View ArticleBrown: Good soil plum makes a difference
If you readers here in North Texas think soil is just like all other soil, you are wrong.
View ArticleTexas sidesteps gambling
Texas lawmakers can't seem to get their House and Senate votes together and actually pass a bill allowing casino gambling in Texas.
View ArticleBrown: Spraying and selling pecans
Most homeowners with bearing-sized pecan trees need to spray them twice a year.
View ArticleWichita Mountain camping sparked lifetime love
At one time, as a Boy Scout and teenager, I spent many a weekend at campsites in the Wichita Mountains next to some half dozen small lakes.
View ArticleBrown: Austin not even in Top 10 for allergies
My son, Michael, 48, refuses to believe allergy research on ragweed carried out in recent years by The U.S. Department of Agriculture that doesn't put Austin in the top 10 cities highest in allergy...
View ArticleProspective owner of electric vehicle must weigh costs, savings
Many American buyers like the idea of electric cars, but they still have many worries about investing that much money in what many consider an "unknown."
View ArticleBrown: Guilty party in parking lot collision absconds
I came out of the grocery store the other morning and in one glance realized my right rear fender had been squashed in by someone else's bumper.
View ArticleOur debt is measured at trillions of dollars
The headline in a national newspaper this week said that the U.S. owes a total of $62 trillion, or more than half a million dollars per household.
View ArticleBrown: Remembering Rep. Graham Purcell
I never told Rep. Graham Purcell, but he knew — I truly was his friend. As Congressman for the district in the area around Wichita Falls,
View ArticleBrown: Food-seeking coyotes are not particular about what they eat
It seems folks living on the edge of the suburbs understand coyotes more than cowboys on the open range. For the cowboy, a coyote in the wild is merely something seen fleetingly in the mesquite, or at...
View ArticleLometa experimenting with alternative power
Stop and think about it: Most small towns in Texas are more than 100 years old!
View ArticleBrown: Sticker shock after trip to emergency room
Recently I was taken to the emergency room after falling face down and cutting my scalp open and bleeding profusely.
View ArticleBlack-eyed peas saved the South when there was little else to eat
I love eating black-eyed peas, especially with a piece of pork in the kettle. But what about every single day for a year, and only getting a piece of hog neck about every two weeks?
View ArticleBrown: Technology has come a long way in 50 years
I'm young enough to remember raising the hood on a car or pickup truck and there was the engine or what some of us incorrectly called the "motor."
View ArticleScheduling change doesn't mean exit from newspaper life
Please don't misunderstand this goodbye.
View ArticleBrown: Texas leads the nation in job growth
The front page headline in a national newspaper: "Need a job? Move to Texas!" That cover story banner might make a few unemployed Texans do a double take.
View ArticleBrown: Higher education does not always guarantee better job
It sprinkled hard early Tuesday morning and doubled the annual rainfall for the year in Charlie. But it wasn't widespread and just put that rainfall aroma into the air making us want more. There is...
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