by Susan Combs
My father, a lifelong rancher, had a lot of interesting expressions that occasionally baffled me until I figured them out. For instance, he might say that somebody was staring off into the distance like a Fort Stockton …
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My father, a lifelong rancher, had a lot of interesting expressions that occasionally baffled me until I figured them out. For instance, he might say that somebody was staring off into the distance like a Fort Stockton …
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Do you even need to care about politics or elections or who “runs things”? Yes. Here’s a little of my own history and how I got involved.
Like many, I was fairly detached from what I would …
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I got an email from a young lady just last week who is starting her senior year in high school. I have known since her birth – and she lives in Colorado. She has great parents, but …
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The Left Coast Blues—a very sad song.
Over the last ten years or so, I have been fascinated by the weird shift taking place in California, a state with so many natural blessings that it has seemed …
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I am mighty proud to be a Texan and here are the secrets behind the Lone Star Success story.
We Texans get fired up and proud of our legacy as Texans. I don’t know about you, but …
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There is one thing that virtually everyone agrees on. Employers who need to fill good paying jobs all need one thing: a well-educated workforce. And that means a whole slew of types and varieties of education. Some …
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I don’t know about you but I have been reading a lot about the fact that people across the country are not doing well – even in the summer of 2014 – because of a lack of …
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You’ve heard the old saying: variety is the spice of life. That is certainly true for Texas cities. They are varied, diverse, exciting, and successful and range in sizes from teensy to towering.
People move for jobs, …
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About two weeks ago I was driving east on IH-10 from my ranch in the Big Bend area and saw something interesting – droves of trucks and cars, some with trailers, all with California license plates, heading …
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Texas is big, and bold. Sometimes we are accused of being all hat and no cattle when it comes to making claims about how great we are. Well, the good news is that lots of people outside …
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