Perspectives
A story that’ll never get written
I keep waiting for this story to happen, but it never has. I’m tired of waiting to break the big exclusive, so the heck with it. I’ll write it anyway: Baseball representatives from the Houston Astros, the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies converged in Lufkin this past week to announce the signing of Bubba “Little Dude” Smith, the phenom taking the baseball world by storm.
Largest wildfire in state history still raging
A wildfire in the Texas Panhandle has consumed more than 1 million acres and as of Sunday was just 15% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. It is the largest wildfire in Texas history.
Pancho Villa’s surprise attack on border town
In the wee hours of March 9, 1916, peasant guerrillas cut a hole in the international fence 60 miles from El Paso and scurried toward Columbus, N.M.. A desperate Pancho Villa had launched the first armed invasion of the United States since the War of 1812.
Life teaches some drug store cowboy lessons
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied. “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved – you and your household.” Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and his family were baptized. – ACTS 16:30-33.
