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Folk, rock music icon Bob Dylan to Perform at UT Tyler Cowan Center
Singer-Songwriter brings “Rough and Rowdy Ways” Tour to East Texas TYLER, Texas (December 11, 2025) — Legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan is bringing his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” Tour to The University of Texas at Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 29. Cowan Center Circle members…
Read MoreTexas Weekly Gas Price Update
December 8, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 9.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.41/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 16.8 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 13.7 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…
Read MoreUnion Hill falls to Gordon
The Union Hill Bulldogs were the beasts of the East in Six-Man Football this season, but the Bulldogs season ended Saturday with a 69-24 loss to a tough Gordon team in the 1A Six-Man D1 state semis. @ejmowery578433 @CowboyTD @FeverScoreboard @KETK https://t.co/7AsnRq7LTN — James Grant (@JGrantSports) December 7, 2025
Read MoreJIM “PAPPY” MOORE: My First Real Girlfriend
By Jim “Pappy” Moore Last night my Aunt Shirley died. She married my Uncle Fred in the summer of 1954. My Uncle Fred was 19 and she was 18. They lived in a tiny apartment in a little old lady’s house in Lubbock. In October my parents, my older sister, and my then one year…
Read More2025 GILMER BUCKEYES FOOTBALL ALL DISTRICT: 7-4A
Offensive Lineman of the Year: Ismael Camara – Jr. #72 1st Team Offense: 2nd Team Offense: WR – Solomon Jackson – Sr. #17 QB – Zade Taylor – Jr. #2 WR – Trace Haynes – Sr. #12 RB – Tayveon Horne – Soph. #6 OL – Van Songer – Soph. #71 FB – Austin Blakeley…
Read MoreTexas Weekly Gas Price Update
December 1, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 11.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.51/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are unchanged versus a month ago and stand 0.4 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of…
Read MoreJIM “PAPPY” MOORE: Thanksgiving Blackout!
By Jim “Pappy” Moore America’s most petulant group of overgrown adolescents is having another tantrum, and you’ll like this one. Unhappy with their “No Kings” failures, they are now planning to abandon buying anything from Tuesday, November 25th through Tuesday Dec 2nd so as to not enrich the patriarchy. Dubbing their Thanksgiving Tantrum “Blackout the…
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Video: Goudarzi & Young Law Offices hosting annual smoked turkey giveaway
Texas is getting far less in federal money for broadband expansion than expected
By Colleen DeGuzman and Jayme Lozano Carver, The Texas Tribune November 24, 2025 When the state announced that it’s set to receive $1.3 billion of federal funds to improve broadband access, rural Texans who have been waiting years for the money were disappointed. They were expecting three times the amount. Two years ago, $3.3 billion…
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