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March 3, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 11.0 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.58/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 9.2 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 32.8 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore   This is the second column I wrote years ago about the Penny. I have more to say about the topic, and hopefully later this year I will write a third column about the end of the penny, after it is laid to rest.   A penny is not what it…

Bogata & Mount Pleasant, TX, Feb. 24, 2025 Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins met with poultry farmers and industry leaders as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing response to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Secretary Rollins toured a Cal-Maine Foods egg-laying facility in Bogata, Texas before traveling to Mount Pleasant, Texas,…

February 24, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 1.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.69/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 1.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 11.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore When I was growing up we used to say of really cold days “it’s colder than a well digger’s ass!” If you have actually been down in a well, you know it is naturally cold down there. With water seeping out and into the well, and your jeans getting wet, it…

By Jasper Scherer and James Barragán, The Texas Tribune Feb. 20, 2025 “National leaders mount pressure campaign on Texas House GOP to pass voucher bill” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign…

February 17, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 1.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.67/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 0.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 21.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore Over ten years ago I wrote those words and the column which follows. I bring it up again because President Trump has launched a “new” idea which I proposed long ago: Getting rid of the penny. Here’s what I wrote to you over a decade ago: Benjamin Franklin famously wrote in…

Inflow-Outflow-Graphic-1-with-Headline-Source Hughes Springs, TX (February 13, 2025) — Northeast Texas Municipal Water District (NETMWD) is in discussions with North Texas Municipal Water District (North Texas MWD) regarding a sale or lease of excess water from Lake O’ the Pines.    Discussions are ongoing, so specifics about any final agreement do not exist. In the meantime,…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore I do not recall a time when so many teachers were unhappy with teaching. Or so many parents were unhappy with schools. Or students behaved so badly in schools. Allow me to suggest a few major changes. Rule One: children do not have access to their cellphones for the entire school…