Planning for Summer Gardens

Temperatures are warming up but that doesn’t mean you should plant your garden just yet!While the weather is a lot nicer in March, it still could get cold enough to hurt small seedlings and even transplanted plants (unless they are cold tolerant).

Performance Follows People, Not Processes

Large organizations can exploit size to create an economy of scale. It is, singularly, the best argument for bigness.This may be true when making automobiles, electric coffee pots, shoes or growing corn or wheat.

Texas Senate Committee discusses bill on religion in school

The Texas Senate Committee on Education is discussing two bills, SB 10 and SB 11, that could bring religious materials into public schools.Senate Bill 10 would require all public schools to display a poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.Sen.

Editor’s Message

Here we go again with the daylight savings time “spring forward.”Personally, I am not a fan of these bi-yearly time changes. Fall back isn’t quite so bad, but spring forward has some real negative effects.

Rainwater Harvesting Conference registration open

Registration for the Rainwater Harvesting Conference on March 27-28 at the Amarillo Area Foundation’s Harrington Center for Philanthropy is underway.The two-day conference runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 27, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 28.

Quinn Minute - Wild animals as pets

Many towns now prohibit citizens from housing jungle animals.What, exactly, is a “wild pet?” That depends on your town, and what its council considers more dangerous than a roving bachelors’ party.For instance, some communities term boa constrictors “wild.

Texas SB 1652 filed to ban puppy mill sales

Texas Senate Bill 1652, called the Ethical Pet Sales Bill, has been filed by Senator Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo).The bill is aimed at protecting puppies and kittens and would the retail sale of such pets.

Quinn Minute - Wild animals as pets

Many towns now prohibit citizens from housing jungle animals.What, exactly, is a “wild pet?” That depends on your town, and what its council considers more dangerous than a roving bachelors’ party.For instance, some communities term boa constrictors “wild.

Bureaucracy and Morals

Bureaucracies create and sustain a moral perspective. “If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won’t,” quipped Admiral Hyman Rickover regarding the seeming senselessness of red tape.

Creating and Sustaining Rural Culture

Geography and culture in small communities play essential roles in shaping various traditions, practices and ways of life, according to Spatial Post. While culture seems to exist independently of place in some areas, it is not the case in smaller rural communities.