I have always questioned whether or not the Electoral College has outlived its usefulness. This is a collection of interesting statistics. In an email I received, a law professor pointed out some interesting facts concerning the November 2008 Presidential election: Number of States won by:
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07/30/2010
While I haven't personally researched or investigated any of the following for content and accuracy, nevertheless, there will definitely be substantive changes in the tax code. Here are some of those areas reported to me by a longtime friend: In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the hist
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07/29/2010
GARTH BROOKS, TIM MC GRAW, WILLIE NELSON AND BIG MIKE I don't know Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Big Mike, but I do know Willie Nelson...at least this Willie Nelson Before he started performing full-time, this Willie Nelson was an insurance company executive who worked for my daddy at American Na
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07/29/2010
HENRY WIENCEK AND E. DOUGLAS MC LEODTaken in the Foyer of the Moody Mansion Galveston, Texas started its life as a city with a lot of families who would become rich as a result of the many businesses a very prolific and active seaport would sustain. One of those families, the family of Colonel W
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07/28/2010
From the Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University. Here is how select Texas cities fared in March (data current as of July 26, 2010): Sales Change fromLast Year MedianPrice Change fromLast Year Months'Inventory Austin 2,216 down 2% $202,800 up 4% 7.2 Brownsville 50 down 14% $96,000 u
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07/27/2010
In 2002, radio broadcaster, Larry Shannon, and sixteen others who had built remarkable careers for themselves in Texas radio, established the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. On the recommendation of famous DJ Chuck Dunaway of the Gordon McLendon days, I got Premier Member status in 2005, as number 96.
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07/27/2010
My friend, Norman Stanowski, is an economist. We often sift through economic data and reach similar conclusions. He sent me this piece the other day. What it portrays is a real estate market that is perfect for anyone whose future has in it a change of homes. That especially holds true for tho
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07/26/2010
Jayne and Corinne Peters Perhaps you read about Jayne Peters. She was the mayor of an affluent community near Dallas, Coppell. Early last week, it appears that she shot and killed her 19-year old daughter, Corinne, and then turned the gun on herself. Jayne left a series of notes that told why.
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07/24/2010
DALLAS DRY CLEANERS10531 East Northwest Highway I'll admit it. I was taught to buy and wear top quality, tailored clothes and footwear and to take good care of them. In the care department, there is nothing harder on clothes than dry cleaning and commercial laundering. So you can imagine what
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07/21/2010
There used to be a school a half-block behind Galveston's famous seawall. It was Lovenberg Junior High. It was torn down after a storm seriously damaged it about forty years ago. But it was the junior high school I went to in the early 1950s. And I forgot to tell you it was directly across the
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07/19/2010
