Students at Stephen F Austin today are getting attention today as they gather in front of the Baker Pattillo Student Center to draw attention to sex-trafficking and slave labor.
Students are standing for 27 hours to draw attention to the 27 million people world wide, who are impacted by modern-day slavery.
Before the advent of playing Virtual Games and I-Pads reducing our entire life to an 8 by 11 video display, I can remember taking Sunday outings to the locomotive freight yard.
A tip this week led police to a Lufkin man's garage, where they found big tanks and barrels and other alcohol-making equipment, and around 200 gallons of "moonshine" was seized.
The man says he had been planning a commercial distillery for downtown Lufkin for about two years, and was still working to get the proper permits.
It wasn't until I met Clarissa Howard in my mid 20's, that I truly appreciated "nature walks". Well, the real story, is that I stammered around the radio station lobby (Clarissa was the receptionist) in hopes that she would notice me, and when after nearly one year passed with her only nodding at me in disgust a half-dozen times, I finally got up enough gumption to ask her out.
If you are looking for the Texas Rangers to hit a home run this year and win the pennant, that may be wishful thinking since losing Josh Hamilton to the arch rival Angels, and Mike Napoli to the Red Sox, but what happens off the field is just as important as what happens on the field.
Should teachers and school administrators carry guns?
Another East Texas school district is thinking about allowing it. The Trinity ISD is considering a new policy that would allow concealed weapons at its buildings.
Guys, is it cool with you if your wife makes more money?
Researchers looked at incomes from 2006 to 2011 and found more wives in 2011 were out-earning their husbands. Some guys get competitive about that, and others say cool, no problem! Bring home that bacon.
These people have Hawaii written all over them.
It could be better, it could be worse for Texas.
When it comes to overall well-being, we're right in the middle of the pack at 27th of the 50 states, and for the 4th year in a row, Hawaii ranks number 1. Things could go totally wrong there and it would still be a good day. Because you're in Hawaii.
What about the worst state? Which state's sense of well-being is generally in the tank?
If you didn't get a chance to attend our Taste of Home cooking school last year, and you don't want to be shut out this year, then make your plans as soon as you finish reading this.
Sorry folks. David Letterman counting down this "list" on his show is probably stretching it a bit. You see, there's really no numerical order when it comes to making the grade concerning states where abnormal diseases propagate. What is known, is that Texas ranks in the 'Top 10'.
If you happened to be awake at 3:15am on Wednesday, perhaps you saw the streams of fire that streaked across the sky, and produced what looked like a cross between fireworks and a meteor shower as it moved away
Make plans now to go all Texas, all the time, as March signals "Texas History Month". We do things BIG here, and that means celebrations will be plentiful statewide.
