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The legend of Boone

T. Boone Pickens passed from this life at age 91 this past week. He is being heralded in the press as a corporate raider. Really?

Dennis Elam

T. Boone Pickens is being heralded as a corporate raider. Except he never raided anything but the stock market. Despite this label, he never succeeded in taking over even a single company. He announced in the 1960s that it was easier to find oil on Wall Street than to drill for it. But that was easier said than done.

Co-parenting basics

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CO-PARENTING BASIC: “Co-Parenting with a toxic ex” series continues. Stay in the game. Don’t let any sense of hopelessness enter into what you are trying to accomplish.Yes this will take courage, strength and fearlessness, but along with these changes you are making taking control over a difficult and stressful situation and circumstance, will come empowerment and personal growth. Keep in mind through it all, that this change is what is needed.

This is a man who is on a mission

Mickey Eddins didn’t want folks to make a “big to-do” about him or his western accessory business, but that’s simply too bad. “If he hadn’t wanted a ‘big to-do’ made

This time we mean it

China and the United States on Thursday agreed to hold high-level talks in early October in Washington, cheering investors hoping for a trade war thaw as new U.S. tariffs on

Co-parenting basics

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CO-PARENTING BASIC “Toxic Ex” series continues. Consider how your toxic ex could possibly try to sabotage you personally and professionally. I’ve had workshop attendees share horrible stories of how their

Board to consider food pantry proposal

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The school board on Tuesday will consider accepting a scaled down proposal from a contractor for construction of a new Andrews Food Pantry facility and parking area in southwest Andrews.

Progess made with school safety

AUSTIN — The Texas School Safety Update, a report highlighting progress made to keep students and teachers safe at school, was released by Gov. Greg Abbott on Aug. 27. The

Phones friends?

A majority of us have drawn lines in the dirt, emphasizing the point beyond which we simply will not be pushed by pesky, ever-encroaching technology. Most of us gradually fold,

Critical juncture

I have been expecting lower oil and stock price. The main reason is that both have been falling together. And the Art of the Deal President alternately threatens some measure,

Back to school

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It’s time to kick-off another school year. The school zone signs a blinking and the football teams are scrimmaging. But despite years of outcry across the state from students, parents,