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By Jim “Pappy” Moore No matter your age, these are pointers which can help you make your money go further. Let’s start with weddings,. For the most part they are huge money wasters. They are a headache. They cost ridiculous sums of money. I beseech the parents and the young people getting married. Do not…

 November 25, 2024 Average gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 0.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.59/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 2.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 7.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore I write to find out what I think. I know of a number of people who have been credited with the thought, but it has been around a long, long time. My writing began in 1990 when I was forty. At first it was poetry. Here was my first poem. Poet…

November 18, 2024 Average gasoline prices in Texas are unchanged  in the last week, averaging $2.60/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 14.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 18.8 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore It was the kind of message you never want to get: “Jim, Dorothy Gumbert passed away.” A friend who lives in Wimberley knew I had gone to Gumbert Ranch many times, where I met Dorothy and Eddie Gumbert about this time of year in 1979. Fall of 1979 I was working…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore I have very strong feelings about the state of our country. I am intensely America First, and always have been. I have opposed illegal immigration my entire life because I care about the working men and women who lose their jobs to illegal immigrants. There are people in both major parties…

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