Quinn Minute - A Long Healthy Life

Is there any proven way to improve life expectancy?Personally, I’d like to make it to 100. Each year I try to eliminate one bad habit, and now I have none. That’s depressing.The average life expectancy in the U.S. today is 77.2 years.

Choose Farmers Over Politics

By Russell Boening, President, Texas Farm Bureau As a farmer and rancher, I’ve learned to count on the seasons. They don’t wait.

Social Security Matters

by Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, Dear Rusty: I had to start collecting Social Security at 62, and I am 75 now.

Quinn Minute - Late greeting cards

A friend asked me if it was OK to delay sending holiday cards until late December.I asked two questions: (1) Will you send me a card? (2) Does it contain a gift certificate?Actually, I believe a late card is a great card. Here are three good reasons -- and two average ones – to delay mailing: 1.

Rural Serving Schools

By Walter Wendler, WTAMU President Rural regions of the United States make significant contributions to the economic well-being of the nation.

Quinn Minute - Christmas Trees

Christmas trees are like distant cousins. They come to your house, surround themselves with presents, and stay a month. Then they begin to shed and need somebody to drive them off.People often do strange things with cut trees.

States begin rolling out legislation on illegal immigration

With an estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the United, President-elect Donald Trump haspromised one of the largest deportations in US history and Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge.Lawmakers in many states...

EPA bans TCE, PCE chemicals

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has banned two carcinogenic chemicals used in cleaning products and other common household.The chemicals — trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE or perc) — are said to cause multiple kinds of cancers and damage to the kidney, liver...

Editor’s Message

Do not give pets to children or anyone else as a Christmas present. Just don’t do it.Pets are a big commitment that requires time, money and planning – assuming the owner is responsible and doesn’t chunk it outside and ignore it.Impulse pet buys are rarely a good idea.

Quinn Minute - Shopping thoughts for early-season buyers

If you’re like me, your mailbox is now bulging with holiday gift catalogs. Yesterday I even got a catalog showing other catalogs I could order.Many families consider the dog to be part of the family.