Rangers general manager Jon Daniels will be meeting with Bob Garber, the agent for free agent pitcher C.J. Wilson, tonight, the former Rangers player confirmed. In an interview with The Ben and Skin Show on KESN-FM 103.3 in Dallas on Tuesday, Wilson said he will know more tonight about the team’s interest. “Jon Daniels and
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The matchups are set. Now it’s time to make your picks. Fill our your Class 5A and 4A football playoff brackets in our pick ‘em contest . Challenge your friends. Beat our experts. Win prizes. Here’s how it works: – Use the links below to register. You’re allowed to fill out one bracket per Class/Division
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MARBLE FALLS — A man detained after a break-in at The Dollar General Store has police looking for possible links to a recent string of burglaries at other businesses and homes. The latest incident, reported about 2 a.m. Oct. 27 at the department store in the 1400 block of Mormon Mill Road, occurred when someone
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A state representative who services the Houston Independent School District’s flood insurance policy — and who is a close friend of two HISD trustees — offered to arrange an all-expenses-paid trip to Costa Rica to a majority of HISD’s trustees, according to an e-mail obtained by Texas Watchdog. State Rep. Borris Miles, a Houston Democrat, offered
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Kinky Friedman I always maintained that real cowboys don’t tweet (or even e-mail). Then I heard the sound of one hand texting. April 2011 MY BACK PAGES: Going digital does have advantages. For example, I can get rid of my old address book which is half-full of dead people. Photograph by Wyatt McSpadden Add your
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Hey, Texplainer: I have strong reservations about the hold music when I call my representative’s Capitol office. Do they choose that themselves? Anyone in the habit of calling state legislators has probably had the pleasure and/or pain of the hold music to which staffers must occasionally subject them. Are the musical selections (especially those of
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At 8:54 a.m. on May 11 last year, state Rep. Todd Hunter e-mailed attorneys who would represent homeowners in a massive lawsuit against the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and lawyers for the association. Hunter was the newly named mediator in the case, and he wanted to set meeting times.   “To all who are involved,” Hunter wrote,
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About a year ago I got one of those e-mails, you know, the ones that make your hair stand up on the back of your neck. The patriotic music, the references to our founding fathers, escalating photo shots proving the just nature of the American Cause through the years, and all of the history lessons
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An October 19, 2009 article in the Washington Times examined federal health agencies that have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to study gun “safety.” According to the article, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently financing research “to investigate whether having many liquor stores in a neighborhood puts people at greater risk of getting
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