Most mom-and-pops are screwed
Wed, 09/29/2021 - 12:00am
Most businesses I go to these days in Hidalgo County, the refrain is the same: We can’t find workers. Or I’ll hear this:
Opinion
Disaster declaration follows Nicholas
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:00am
Seventeen Southeast Texas counties have been declared disaster areas after Hurricane Nicholas came ashore, dumping more than a foot of rain and cutting off power to a half-million customers in Texas, according to poweroutage.us. That number had been reduced to about 4,200 as of Sunday.
Almost 92, Clint Eastwood, and Betty White, almost 100, offer us hope
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:00am
I first saw Clint Eastwood on the Big Screen in 1966. He was 36 at the time, and I was 11. Me and a buddy went to see “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.” I had watched clean-shaven Clint in Rawhide on black-and-white TV, but in “The Good…” flick, Eastwood with his stubble and quick gun, hat hanging low, was as cool as Sean Connery’s 007 (also making the theater rounds in those days); only one was driving an Aston Martin while the other was riding a horse. Up until then, though, the mid-1960s, there hadn’t been any Western Movie gunslinger as cool as Eastwood.
Medical Discrimination
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:00am
A landlord who owns seven apartment buildings in Florida has just announced that he intends to evict any tenant who has not received at least one dose of the CCP virus vaccine. This comes at a time when other states are imposing draconian restrictions on the non-vaccinated. The unvaccinated are being told they won't be admitted to sports arenas, bars, and numerous other venues.