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SECTION: Columnists
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Thanksgiving tidbits
Finally, this is the year you sit at the grown-up table. However, your best behavior will not be enough to maintain your new status if you just sit there like the lumps in the potatoes. You are now an adult and therefore, you must engage in a quaint custom called “polite dinner conversation.”
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Laura on Life: Re-birthday
Do you remember when birthdays used to be fun? Your parents celebrated because you were one year closer to buying your own food and paying for your own dental bills.
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Step away from the leaf blower
Autumn is the season for reflection on the mysteries of change within constancy and constant change. Days of contemplation on youth, life, mortality. On these sparkling clear fall mornings, sun streaming unfettered through bare trees, one clearly sees the unalterable cycle of Nature. And hears the unbearable two-cycle of Man – the leaf blower.
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Laura on Life: Vacation without the kids
My husband and I finally went on a long-awaited vacation without the kids. I say “long-awaited” because this was the first vacation we had taken alone since we started having children twenty-three years ago.
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Encouragement for the downtrodden
Please open your bible and read Matthew 9:14-26
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As I see it . . .
Are you ready to save yourself some money? It is almost time for the Water Department to set the sewer usage rates for 2010. For those of you who do not already know, your water consumption during the months of December, January, and February will be the basis for what the Bonham Water Department will implement as your sewer usage costs for March 2010 through February 2011.
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Laura on Life: The truth about horseback riding
I always wanted a horse.
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Homosexual protest to be countered by fundamentalists this Tuesday in Fort Worth
As a weekly street preacher in Fort Worth for ten years (with others from our church), we will be showing up Tuesday, outside the Fort Worth City Council. We will meet in a lawful fashion, with people from other churches, to protest the gross immorality of homosexuality, as well as to show our support for the Fort Worth Police Department during their recent controversy with the homosexual community.
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Geoff Bailey calls on Texans to support fiscally responsible health care reform
"There is no question that our health care system is broken. However, the fiscally responsible way to control health care costs is not to nationalize the system and saddle tax payers with unsustainable debt. We need to control sky-rocketing costs by allowing Texans to own their own health care. Tort reform and allowing consumers to purchase individual policies across state lines will make insurance more affordable and portable for every Texan." -- Geoff Bailey
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Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Firewall against financial malware
The financial crisis taught us several lessons. First, banking regulators are ill-equipped to be consumer watchdogs. Second, when financial institutions can shop around for the "regulator of least resistance," Americans get the short end of the stick. In Texas, we know a little bit about toxic financial products. With the lowest average credit scores, lax financial regulation and runaway payday loans, Texans are especially vulnerable to dangerous products that strip wealth from households and communities.
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Laura on Life: Video game virus
Everyone is so worried about the H1N1 virus, but 99% of the time, H1N1 eventually goes away if you get it. Not so with the video virus. Once you have it, it’s chronic.
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To the residents of Fannin County...
I personally want to apologize to the teachers and students of Bonham Schools. You deserve better than what the voters have given.
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