I rarely blog on weekends, but loyal Scaiaholics will recall my complicated history with plug-ins. I bring this up because I felt I owed the, literally, dozens of people who visit this site every week an explanation. The website, you see, was recently dealing with an issue [a critical issue].This started last week. I had posted a blog…
As a slacker, I feel like an authority in the case of people bribing “college insiders” to doctor their kids’ scores on the SAT.I have experience in the area of being exposed as a cheater. Back In The Day, an English teacher at my high school would occasionally give us pop quizzes. She’d hand out a quiz on…
This morning, I was at Love Field shoving a microphone in the face of Southwest Airlines passengers for the second time this week. They all had the unmitigated gall to show up, expecting a flight.Then I had the unmitigated gall to think, “Hey, there’s a Burger King across the street from the airport. You know what I need…
This morning, I was given the option of covering a story about early childhood education, about the importance of giving young children a chance to explore their world and interact with each other and the topics they were studying instead of just shoving a book or worksheet in front of them. Or I could attend the retirement ceremony for a…
The Dallas Cowboys will host the Washington Redskins in their annual Thanksgiving game tomorrow at AT&T Stadium. Because a reporter asks, I was called upon to sample Thanksgiving dinner.The Cowboys, you see, will serve 90,000 Thanksgiving dinners at the stadium. They have to bring in extra staff because, ever since John Madden retired, they’ve needed…
Dallas/Fort Worth has been setting records for rainfall. This week, another round of storms came through, prompting the governor to increase the State Operations Center’s level of readiness from Normal Conditions, to Increased Readiness.”This is getting serious,” I can hear you murmuring to your computer screen.It did get serious. A construction worker died when the storms…
The Fort Worth Stockyards is celebrating the birthday of one of the oldest light bulbs in the world. As a gentleman who was raised properly in the nation’s cradle of innovation, I felt it was my duty to attend.This particular light bulb is 110 years old.The saga began at Ft. Worth’s Palace Theater back in 19…