The shocking and disappointing medicine increases over the last few years have placed many seniors in a very desperate situation. When the CEOs of the companies raise these prices with no explanation or by cynically stating that it’s to make more money, it can be hard not to feel cheated and unprotected. Seniors with low incomes or very tightly controlled financial situations can’t afford to have their live-saving medications denied to them in this way.

However, this problem...

When I was fifteen, I was focused on school and investments. I had bought my first stock at the tender age of ten, 3500 shares of Ophir gold Mining and Milling, an inactive Cripple Creek company, for the munificent sum of $27.50. The price didn't budge for many years. However, sixteen years later in 1969 it was selling for thirty cents per share. I debated selling it and decided to hold. I did sell in 1974 when gold was up but the market seemed shaky to me. I picked a good time, not the best...

Hakonechloa macra
Japanese forest grass
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' - Plant Finder

Before this writer gets too far ahead of himself, consider that this can had been kicked around a few times previously by the Texas Department of Transportation and West Texans who would like to see fruition on more north-to-south mobility. Leaders now are more optimistic than ever.

So, with that, we can kick the proverbial can around again. Interstate 27 and a possible southern extension of it are going to be discussed again. And, yes, along with all that will come...

A comment was raised in my previous post, and it brought up something that really wasn't the topic of said post, but it did pose something interesting. So, thanks to our friend shoe01, I'll let the link become the subject of this latest computer chickenscratch.

That link shoe mentioned was about a California guy from Oakland who decided to come to Texas to visit. As a matter of fact, he saw a survey taken somewhere which brought up the idea that Lubbock was voted...