Opinion

This should make Americans ask the fundamental question, “What is the difference between what a public non-profit utility company provides and what a private for-profit oil company provides?” After all they both sell energy to all U.S. citizens.

Last week a West Texas spring “breeze” decided to throw stuff on, around, and off my roof at 2:30 a.m. When daylight arrived, I realized my carport roof had been lifted, and flying pieces of metal and lumber had also knocked the swamp cooler off my roof.

Spring activities are in full swing, and there is a new energy in the air on all the campuses. It seems like every day we have a different group of students headed out to compete in one area or another.

Nine years ago this month Netflix changed how we watch television. The streaming service released an entire season of its political drama, “House of Cards,” at once, enabling viewers to binge on 13 episodes.

I first heard of the broken window theory at the completion of my active duty in the U.S. Navy as I was pursuing a criminal justice degree in college at Sul Ross.

My mother and father keep our old photos in their hall closet in a sturdy old Pabst Blue Ribbon box. Sifting through old photos is a glorious experience - one, we now know, that relieves aches and pains by calming the brain, according to a recent study.

There has been talk of closing access to Big Bend National Park area where that terrible act of vandalism took place by some thoughtless, immature, and disrespectful people. To the authorities of the park, I beg them not to close it and here is why.

Growing up among good Americans, I learned what we should be. My parents and others roll over in their graves due to what we’ve become.

The world seemed surprised when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in 1938, more surprised when he invaded Poland in 1939, and flabbergasted when he marched into the Soviet Union in 1941.

My next door neighbor and good friend William D. Bates died the evening of Feb. 8 at his home. For many years Dan and I spent several hours on Sunday mornings with coffee and talk, always interesting and enjoyable given his wide range of interests and curiosity.