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128 stories found, listing (1 - 25)
Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
By DON BEAVERS
July 4, 1976, West Berlin, 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain. It is the 200th anniversary of the birth of our great country -- and we were more than 100 miles from the Free World. We were closer to Communist Poland than to free We ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
It's easy to find the big money points in fantasy football -- they're in the skill positions. Fantasy owners devote almost all of their energy on the quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end positions. But what about the defense and kic ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Next year's guest pickers for The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel should be computer software salesmen.A couple online readers suggested family and friends of anyone working for American Traffic Solutions. But a light (not red) went off in my ...
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Published Sunday, November 01, 2009
It's a fine fall evening as I write this, and I should be at the football game. But I've been sitting here at my desk worrying.What I'm worrying about is Sully, a three-footed dog. Sully is a Great Pyrenees who's currently in the care of the Great Py ...
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Published Friday, October 30, 2009
It's nice to have home builders on The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel for our annual Halloween edition. It might take all eight of them combining their resources and knowledge to build something grand enough that will house our egos.We're gre ...
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Published Sunday, October 25, 2009
Two weeks ago in this space we announced the first Brazos Bottom Pumpkinpalooza, an opportunity for our readers to be creative and play with knives at the very same time.In that column, I proclaimed that we would announce the names of our winners tod ...
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Published Sunday, October 25, 2009
Dallas Morning NewsIt has been said that people vote with their feet. They pick up and go to where the jobs and opportunities are.The hard part is that it costs more -- a lot more -- to move to where the jobs and opportunities are than to move to whe ...
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Published Wednesday, October 21, 2009
As a former U.S. Army combat infantry officer in Vietnam, I am concerned about the current debate and decision making process regarding troop strength in Afghanistan. I am more concerned about the discussion regarding whether we should stay or leave ...
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Published Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Safe Harbour is a gem of a program in the Brazos Valley and this week there is an opportunity to support it and have fun at the same time.There is no question that adults suffer in a divorce, particularly those that are acrimonious and spiteful. But ...
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Published Saturday, October 17, 2009
By LARRY RINGERThis Nov. 3, College Station will be voting on whether to keep our red-light safety program, a program I support because it is a valuable and lawful tool to keep all of us, including our students, safer. Unfortunately, some of the crit ...
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Published Saturday, October 17, 2009
By JIM MANESS
"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1775
Red-light cameras take away constitutionally guaranteed essential libert ...
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Published Friday, October 16, 2009
Week 5 was an eye-opener for fantasy football owners. Nine players topped 25 points in standard scoring systems, yet only one or two were likely to be in many lineups. They're the kind of numbers that start waiver wire panics.Dallas wide receiver Mil ...
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Published Friday, October 16, 2009
Luckily, there's not a no-pass, no-pick rule for The Eagle's 18-mammal Prognosticator Panel.Several student-athletes throughout the Brazos Valley couldn't suit up last week for extracurricular activities because they failed a class.That's OK -- if 70 ...
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Published Sunday, October 11, 2009
Send the kids out of the room, Bubba, and get out your pocketknife. You're about to get a chance to carve your name in history.The first Brazos Bottom Pumpkinpalooza is upon us. It's time to see how creative you can be while playing with a sharp obje ...
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Published Sunday, October 11, 2009
"So, this must be what an intervention is like." That's what I thought as I went around the house with the moving company representative. He was going through our house, room by room, noting this and that piece of furniture. He saw the bookshelves. H ...
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Published Saturday, October 03, 2009
I find it surprising how many people are complaining about a public option to any potential government health care plan.Even politicians who have served their states since Vietnam have remarked that the amount of hateful political rhetoric has reach ...
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Published Saturday, October 03, 2009
The last 17 years of my working life were spent as a health care manger and administrator. That includes five years with a two-hospital private health care group with its own insurance component and 12 years with Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest ...
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Published Sunday, October 04, 2009
No, it wasn't as difficult as the journey to Texas that Woodrow Call took with the body of his friend Gus McCrae in the famous novel and television series Lonesome Dove. For one thing, neither of us was dead. And an air-conditioned Chevy Suburban, ev ...
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Published Sunday, October 04, 2009
Any 100th birthday party is a big deal, but we're celebrating a real doozie in our town this month.Bryan Texas Utilities is marking a century of service with a thoughtful look at the history of electricity. BTU is sponsoring a great exhibit at the Ch ...
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Published Thursday, October 01, 2009
Week 4 of the fantasy football season means the start of bye-week-and-injury season. The first three weeks are easy. Almost everyone is playing and hardly anyone is seriously hurt. That changes this week. Now is when your fantasy skills must pay off. ...
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Published Sunday, September 27, 2009
Whose money is it, anyway? In case you have forgotten, all that money in mutual funds belongs to you and me. It may be diminished, but what remains is still our money. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we get the most reliable benefit from our money - ...
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Published Sunday, September 27, 2009
When fall arrived and the weather actually turned cooler the other day, I caught myself looking at chili mix in the grocery store.I talked myself out of buying any. Reason is, I'm a big fan of both chili and "chili weather," and I didn't want to do a ...
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Published Saturday, September 26, 2009
By WILLIAM GREENSome years ago, a novice reporter was dispatched to Westminster Abbey, where the world renowned organist Diane Bish was in concert. The young journalist was awed by the majesty of the cathedral with its soaring ceilings, artwork, stat ...
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Published Saturday, September 26, 2009
By ALBERT S. BROUSSARDMell Pruitt was larger than life. At least that is the way she always appeared to me, even during the final three years of her life when poor health confined her to a wheel chair. When I arrived in College Station in 1985 and at ...
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Published Friday, September 25, 2009
It's all the media's fault. The economy. Global warming. Obesity in our children.On the local front, we favor Bryan over College Station -- or is it College Station over Bryan? I seem to forget. Either way, we're the reason the cities haggle over thi ...
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