Just want to wish all the readers out there a very happy, blessed, and prosperous New Year in 2023.

And there will be much more ahead from Case's Column. Check back here, and I'll keep you good company.

Glad you've taken the time to be on City-Data with all the peeps who make it possible. Thanks so much for having a computer and electricity.

A few days ago, I uncovered what had been a mystery on the Lubbock hotel landscape, and that might actually come to fruition once again. I shared in my recent Scattershooting about Downtown Lubbock plans for a convention center hotel and the possibility of it being back on after visiting the backburner.

Well, a local hospitality and planning website from the Hub City now shows that another project may possibly be on again. The TAJ website is shedding light on something...

Life sure gets crazy now and then, dud-nit, sports fans? Once upon a time, my apartment complex manager and I talked about getting new things placed in my bathroom. Last year, my floor was replaced. Earlier this year, it was the bathroom sink.

Most recently, we talked about getting a new shower put in, but I was then placed on a priority list. Then something happened a few days before Christmas which wound up changing the whole ballgame for Case.

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Basically, the Big 12 will have a new face. Yes, we've also got TCU and Baylor and will lose Texas and Oklahoma, but that's why I'm bringing the following up.

The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team decided to give Head Coach Joey McGuire a real go at it. They've signed him to a six-year contract extension. This gives not only Tech some stability and time to build the program up the way it should be, but also to give a reworked Big 12 a face of the conference. And...