Opinion

Place making is a familiar concept in economic development. It is the practice of creating or enhancing a community’s assets to improve its overall attractiveness and livability.

there know that isogram means “equal letter.” An isogram is a word that has an equal amount of each letter in it. For starters, let’s discuss first-order isograms, which do not repeat any letter. My name, “Curtis,” is a first-order isogram. So are the words “customizable,” “nightwalkers,” “flamethrowing” and “ambidextrously.” None of these words use the same letter twice! The longest English language isogram, weighing in at 17 letters, is “subdermatoglyphic,” which has to do with certain patterns in our fingerprints (I think). Y

There’s something about the freedom of a motorcycle ride … the wind blowing through your hair, passing mere cars at light speed, mosquitoes splattered against your grin. I guess that was why.

“Do for this?” my you have time husband, Peter, asked. Peter almost never questions what I’m doing unless I’m doing something particularly stupid.

It’s no secret people under a certain age (I’m going to put it as high as 50) throw around the word “like” as if they lived in mid-1980’s Beverly Hills. “Like” gets used as much as the word “the,” functioning as the filler word of many non-Californians’ daily lingo.

Every legislative session, the Texas Legislature considers a variety of topics. Over the next few months, I will break down the 87th Legislative Session into segments and provide a summary of each segment so you may get a better understanding of what we accomplished.

Gov. Greg Abbott vowed last week at a border security summit to build a barrier to slow the flow of migrants through the state’s southern border.

A cousin of mine reportedly said, “I can’t imagine living in a house where other people have lived!” I don’t know if she really said this, as I heard the story secondhand. But it stuck in my mind because every home I’ve owned has been lived in by other people, and a few people have died in them as well.

Went from downtown?’ is a question we often get from people. Sealy Main Street is the historic district where we focus on preservation and revitalization through the Texas Historical Commissions’ four-point approach.

Ran into Herb Collins the other day down by the school. He volunteers there, from time to time, helping kids with their math homework, and trying to recruit future members of The Great World of Business