Volleyball practice. Bible study. The English essay due next week. These are the things that once occupied 14-year-old Elliston Berry’s mind.
“I’ve been everywhere, man/I’ve been everywhere, man…” – as sung by Hank Snow.
Thank God Willis Haviland Carrier invented air conditioning — for the most part.
We see them everywhere, teenagers cocooned in their own private universes, oblivious to the sights and sounds around them. The adolescents embody a curious paradox, isolated among crowds, their earbuds a gateway to a world that directs them inward.
The chief of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas told state lawmakers recently that the state’s power demand could nearly double in just six years. The reasons: population growth, new requests for grid connections, and a rise in requests from data centers and other heavy users.
A sense of alarm about the erosion of voter privacy has been growing among Texas election officials the past few months. It came to a head on June 6.
During the Great Depression, the government established the Works Progress Administration. The program hired nearly 8 million unemployed people to build buildings, parks, bridges and roadways.
Recently, I was getting a haircut and teasing my long-term stylist about the lack of inspirational-quote décor in her salon station compared to the one next to hers. Of course, she knows that teasing her is how I show my love and appreciation to her for not re-sculpting my earlobes with her straight razor or making my hair look like it was styled with a package of firecrackers.
Cities should loosen zoning without targeting single- family neighborhoods as the problem.
Drought conditions across the state dropped a percentage point in May compared to the previous month, with 26% of the state in some stage of drought, primarily in West and South Texas and parts of the Panhandle.
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