Oil sealed fate of two mining towns
By Bartee Haile (Hard as it may be to believe, this is my 2,000th column!…
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How will you mark 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving?
By Danny Tyree Last year the media went into a frenzy over the 400th anniversary…
When Thanksgiving and Christmas collide
By Jesse Graves These days, we’re all used to walking through retail stores in October…
Truth or fiction: Tales of pioneer pilots
By Bartee Haile A death-defying air show on Nov. 19, 1911, inspired a Midland blacksmith to…
Should churches have a dress code?
Where do you reside on the “holier than thou” versus “holeyer than thou” spectrum? I…
Money, money, money
By Peter Funt Slick Willie Sutton, the 1930s bandit who favored elaborate disguises, was once…
Don’t forget our vets
By Tom Purcell My dad’s hearing was damaged more than half a century ago when,…
Small-town paper uncovers big-time scandal
By Bartee Haile On Nov. 14, 1954, a small-town Texas daily revealed rampant fraud and…
World War I defined rest of 20th Century
By Tom Emery It was called the “Great War” and the “war to end all…
Ranting in the rain
By Clint Younts Well, it’s raining here today. S’posed to rain all day, but I’m…