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Music is a nice diversion. When you talk about politics religion or business any disagreement is a source of contention even if you're not being contentious. When you talk about music everyone has their preference and most every more »

It's been ten years since the last minimum wage increase. Every year it's proposed and every year the Republicans put it aside. With their emphasis on what's good for business it'll be a hard sell to get one passed next year. more »

This is one of those days when I have nothing to say. Now I do have a file drawer of notes for things I want to write about but often when I go to the notes the notes I have don't make sense or don't seem that important any more. more »

Speaking of transportation and travel my boss gave me a paperback a week or two ago about travel in texas. Titled "52 More Offbeat Texas Stops" it includes a collection of historic sites museums events and generally odd destinations. Bob Phillips has more »

In the late seventies one of the things I enjoyed doing was getting a newspaper and reading the highlights of the day; or maybe reading a chapter in a good book or a magazine article. If I had some project I was working on I might pull out some of my o more »

We had frozen za today baked in the oven of course. The box says "New Look Same Great Taste". I thinking though if there's a new look shouldn't the consumer see it without reading it. Also thinking why brag that the package is better but the prod more »

In the last few weeks I've heard a lot about church growth. Though that term never came up the thought was there; how to grow membership in the church. We go to a small church and there is room for growth. There are some programs that they are working on more »