Opinion

As we watch over our government, it’s often about the money. 

Are taxpayer dollars being spent wisely on social programs, road projects and employee pay? Can we view government contracts with outside organizations? What are the details of bond proposals on the election ballot? 

Before he boarded the PT boat on Mar. 10, 1942 that would carry him to Australia, Gen. Douglas MacArthur told the highest ranking Texas Aggie on Corregidor to “keep the flag flying.”

Col. George F. Moore was still a larger-than-life figure, when he returned to College Station nearly three decades after receiving his diploma and commission in 1908. The two-season letterman in football earned the nickname “Old Maud” with a mule-like kick said to have sent a pigskin spiraling over the spires atop a three-story structure. 

My Uncle Mort sometimes has “bats in his belfry.” 

Fact is, he’s heard such second, third and fourth-hand opinions so many times that he’s begun research about these flying mammals. 

Now, he swells with pride when he hears the description, believing that he and bats are both grossly misunderstood…

The expression-- first appearing in a Newark, NJ, newspaper in 1900--suggested that belfry-bound bats dart about rapidly, even when trying to navigate enclosed spaces. 

He’s likely been a “forward thinker” since “diaper days” some 80 years ago. 

Glenn Dromgoole--my friend of almost 60 years--probably can trace his “can do” spirit back to pre-school tricycle races. 

A proud graduate of Sour Lake High School and Texas A&M University, this distinguished journalist, editor, author and entrepreneur has “set the pace” on many of “life’s highways.” (He hates it when quotation marks are “over used,” so let’s dismiss his prejudice “forthwith,” and maybe “backwith,” too.) 

Convinced he had been cheated out of a pot on Feb. 18, 1872, an angry poker player started shooting at the owner of Fort Griffin’s first saloon.

The military outpost was established five years earlier on a bluff high above the Clear Fork of the Brazos River northeast of present-day Abilene. To discourage raids by the tribes in the Indian Territory, an all too common occurrence during the Civil War, the fort was well-stocked with cavalry ready to ride at a moment’s notice.

Dear Rusty: My girlfriend is 65 and she just enrolled in Medicare. She is still working full time as a nurse, but they are still deducting Medicare taxes from her paycheck. I thought as soon as you started Medicare, that they would no longer take any Medicare taxes from her paychecks. Is that not correct? Signed: Concerned Friend 

Convinced he had been cheated out of a pot on Feb. 18, 1872, an angry poker player started shooting at the owner of Fort Griffin’s first saloon.

The military outpost was established five years earlier on a bluff high above the Clear Fork of the Brazos River northeast of present-day Abilene. To discourage raids by the tribes in the Indian Territory, an all too common occurrence during the Civil War, the fort was well-stocked with cavalry ready to ride at a moment’s notice.