Death as a Taxable Event

By Rich Lowry   Prepare for the rise of the landed nobility. Democracy as we’ve known it was nice while it lasted, but House Republicans have signaled the beginning of its end with a vote to repeal the estate tax.

Clucked

By Renae Brumbaugh   Hospitality is the right and responsibility of every true southern woman. From birth, we are groomed to be pleasant, to smile, to offer warm words and cool lemonade to anyone who graces our property.

‘Thunder shirts,’ ear plugs and blinders for two

Thunder and lightning make Sawyer, our Tibetan Terrier, extremely nervous. So, we bought a doggie thunder shirt to put on him at such times. It helps. He manages to not be as panicky and to survive thunder and lightning a little better.

Boozin’ it up?

In case you didn’t know, there’s a petition drive in the community about selling liquor in Copperas Cove. Well, that’s not quite the whole deal. If you sign that petition, it doesn’t mean—poof!—Copperas Cove can sell liquor.

From cheerleader to king of prime-time tv

Aaron Spelling, the biggest big-shot in the history of television, was born in Dallas to poor immigrant parents on Apr. 22, 1923. An Ellis Island clerk changed his father’s name from Spurling to Spelling the day the Polish Jew entered the country.

Double trouble

I stay in trouble. Honestly. Even when I try to be good. Even when I’m perfectly innocent, I find myself in trouble. Like the time I was driving my dad to his doctor’s appointment when his blood sugar dropped. I was being very careful to drive within the speed limit, while still trying to hurry.

Senate passes version of 2016-2017 state budget

The Texas Senate on April 14 passed its version of the 2016-2017 state budget. Because the Houseand Senate-approved budgets are $1.6 billion apart, five Senate members and five House members will be appointed to a conference committee to resolve differences.

The Sand Trap

I should have known by the name of the golf course what I was in for—The Sand Trap. “It’ll be fun,” my friends said. “It’s not like miniature golf,” they said. So we pulled into the parking lot of the nine-hole golf course.

‘Sport of kings’ flourished in Texas during depression

by Bartee Hailie In April 1934, a year after pari-mutuel horse racing became legal, Texas’ fourth track opened in San Antonio under the name of Alamo Downs. Horse races and wagers on the outcome were common in the Lone Star State as far back as the middle of the nineteenth century.

Farm to Market

This is a notice to all my readers that I’ve decided to change professions. Again. Now, I know I’m prone to crow about a career change now and then, but this time I mean it. When I said I wanted to be a racecar driver, I wasn’t serious.