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The Boys of Summer: playing baseball, past and present
Summertime and baseball are synonymous for me. Growing up, my twin brother and I were homeschooled, so we spent most of our afternoons somewhere on our family’s two acres, playing whatever sport was in season at the time.

May 24, 2012
Dancing with the devil: Our cultural distrust of Facebook
The internet social networking giant that is Facebook is planning to “go public” sometime this year, a fact that has some people worried. Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is not set in stone, but the company did say that they wanted to raise some $5 billion by selling a small portion of their shares. While the earning potential for the company, which made $667 million in profit last year according to their IPO filing, is obvious, expanding the company’s income could prove problematic as more and more users access Facebook from their mobile devices (which have far less advertisements).

May 17, 2012
Border story arouses interest
Several months ago, Dr. Fred Tarpley heard an interesting fact about Hunt County. Mark, Fred’s youngest son, said that his teacher had told him that Hunt County had more adjoining counties than any other county in Texas.

May 10, 2012
Me and my shadow: growing up with a twin
For those who don’t know me personally, I have an identical twin brother named Joshua who works for the Northeast Texas Boys & Girls Club and is attending Criswell College in Dallas. Josh and I were genetically tested when we were younger, and it turns out that we are as close to 100 percent identical as you can get. We pretty much always looked alike, and we were inseparable.

May 4, 2012
Early settlers demonstrated imagination in naming children
Early settlers of Hunt County gave their daughters some charming, if not outright strange names.
Although names like Sarah (by far the most popular among parents in the pre Civil War era), Nancy, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Mary appear most often in family genealogies from this period.

April 23, 2012
Tupac resurrection brings new concerns to life
In case you’re you haven’t seen it, put down the newspaper for a second, or open a new window on your desktop, and search YouTube for Tupac’s performance at Coachella 2012 earlier this week.

April 20, 2012
Learning from the Masters
I’ll start this column by saying I am by no means an avid golfer or golf fan. My grandfather was a good golfer, as was my uncle, who golfed for the University of Texas. I’m not sure how good my dad is, but he certainly knows his way around a golf course. I’ve never personally been to a golf course, or even a driving range, since it’s a) too expensive and b) none of my friends play it.

April 13, 2012
Exploring the National Vietnam War Museum
Ever since he took helicopter pilot training at Fort Wolters near Mineral Wells, Jim Messinger thought there should be some kind of museum to honor helicopter pilots who fought in Vietnam.

April 10, 2012
One-and-done NCAA draft rule leads to a boring college basketball season
By the time this column goes to print, the 2012 NCAA men’s basketball champion will have been crowned, topping off another successful college basketball playoff, known affectionately as March Madness.
Odds are the winner will be Kentucky, although I wouldn’t be surprised if Kansas pulls off the “upset.” Either way, I don’t really care

April 5, 2012
Dusting off the 80s action blockbuster classics
When I was growing up, my parents always made sure I was outside playing instead of watching T.V. They would occasionally While this certainly improved my baseball swing, it also means that I missed out on a ton of early to mid-90s movies that most of my friends and co-workers have seen.

March 30, 2012
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