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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

In the early morning hours of Tuesday,October23,2018mywifeand I once again needed the services of Seminole’s Memorial Hospital for our daughter and an ongoing health issue she is dealing with.

In fact we went and picked her up from school in Lubbock to bring her to our hometown hospital instead of going to the ER in Lubbock!

Thinking Out Loud: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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It was Christmas time in Fayetteville, Tenn., or close to it. And it was time for the annual Christmas parade that winds through downtown at about the same time every year. Kind of a big deal in a small town. As the father of a four-foot-tall Boy Scout, it was my “job” on that day to usher a dozen or so of the rowdy munchkins, all dressed up in their blue and gold uniforms, aboard a Christmas float. It would be about a two-mile ride, with me and someone’s Mom trying to keep them seated so they wouldn’t fall off, right there on Main Street. There was work to do at the office.

Analysis: School Finance Problem

There is a chart on page 205 of the newest edition of a wonky and essential Texas government publication called “Fiscal Size-Up: 2018-19 Biennium.”  

Musings By Marilou: I am a Scaredy Cat

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Visions of caramel apples, popcorn balls, candy corn, and Hershey Kisses, dressed in black and orange wrappers, signal that Halloween is rapidly approaching.  I can do without the ghost, goblins, and gore; for me, that is not what this upcoming holiday is about. 

Wright's Words:Enthralled with ‘Hunting ISIS’

 

 

Thinking Out Loud: 13 Minutes

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During closing arguments in last week’s capital murder trial, State of Texas vs. Jacob Groening, inside the 106th District Courtroom,  it was interesting to me that both the defense and the prosecution, for reasons of their own and without one knowing what the other would say, both invoked memories of recent mass shootings that have become all too commonplace in our headlines.

Analysis: When the Texas House and Senate Fight, Legislative Agencies Squirm

We already knew the Legislature was going to start its January session without a House Appropriations Committee; naming a new budget-writing panel will follow the election of a new speaker of the House. 

Now there’s a new kink in the preparation of the state’s next two-year budget: Ursula Parks, the beleaguered director of the obscure but critical Legislative Budget Board, is retiring at the end of the month. 

Musings By Marilou: My Dad, the Fire Chief

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As the Seminole Fire Department visits preschools and elementary schools throughout the area this week, I can’t help but think about my dad. Black rubber boots stationed at the back

Musings By Marilou: Finally Grown Up

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I made a startling discovery the other night.  I am no longer that pesky little runt of a girl who tormented those who lived around her. I, as well as a former neighbor, have finally grown up.

Wright's Words: I Dislike the Aging Process

Over the past several weeks, I had been sporting a beard.

On a whim Sunday evening, I decided I was tired of the beard. I got up out of the recliner, made my way to the bathroom and began trimming the beard down to a goatee.

Mindlessly, I opened the mirrored cabinet door, reached in to grab the trimmer, and closed the door. I removed the guard from the trimmer to begin the process of removing the beard and I gazed into the mirror.