Pet Talk

While some dogs shed yearround, others shed seasonally during fall and spring months, in preparation for winter and summer weather. Although shedding is a natural process, there are ways to reduce shedding and keep loose hair to a minimum, which can improve your dog’s skin and coat health.

OPINION

As social attitudes and perspectives, ebb and flow universities are impacted and, in some cases, become barometers for measuring change and even predicting it. Fitch Ratings – Chicago/New York in a Sept. 19 report predicts that enrollment trends will affect different universities in different ways.

Chicken or egg?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? People have known about chickens for nearly 3000 years. Chicken drawings were even discovered on ancient pottery. Maybe that’s where we get the saying, “A chicken in every pot.

Lubbock woman beaten, stabbed, set on fire

A Lubbock man was arrested and taken into custody by the Lubbock Police Department following a house fire that left one person critically injured. LPD identified the suspect as Ynez Spencer, 27.

Editor’s Message

The Constitution is under attack by the very people who took an oath to uphold the sacred document that protects (not gives permission) the liberty and rights of the people.

Christmas trees

Christmas trees are like a distant cousin. 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.

Thanksgiving 2022

When confronted with challenging times like ours, it is easy to lose heart, appreciation, gratefulness and admiration— in a word, thanksgiving—for the people and places we call home. Our University has been fortunate to have many distinguished leaders. One of those luminaries is President J. A.

Shopping thoughts for early season buyers

If you’re like me, your mailbox is bulging with holiday gift catalogs. Yesterday I even got a catalog showing other catalogs I could order. It’s smart to choose “age appropriate” items. Last year a ten-year-old up the street got a full-sized car.

Editor’s Message

It is that time of year again when Halloween passed and Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays line up waiting for attention, people, candy canes and other food. Somewhere between costumes, menus and gift buying, there doesn’t seem to be much time left.

What is the bell-shaped curve?

There’s increasing emphasis for both private and public sectors to focus on “above average” people in certain skills. This clearly eliminates 50% of the population, who fall on the left side of the “bell-shaped curve.” And what is this “curve?