As a former state legislator, Chair of the House Public Health Committee, and member of the House Select Committee on Health Care Reform, I witnessed firsthand the impact...

Our newly elected State Representative for District 87, Caroline Fairly of Amarillo interviewed with a local radio station recently on vouchers and said two things that...

I hope you enjoyed the holidays with your family and friends over the last few weeks. My college girl is home in the Panhandle for some quality...

 Last night, for what seemed like hours, I dreamed that I was back in the classroom instructing my students on how to collect data for a Bible history research paper.  No....

ANNOUNCEMENT  I have purchased the interests of F. C. Sumral in the Cooke-Sumral Motor Company and will continue the business as it has been conducted heretofore, in...

R. D. Chamberlain Attends World Series Ball GamesR. D. Chamberlain of Spearman is attending the World Series at Detroit this week. He will visit the fair and then attend...

Although I am officially retired now, during Advent last year, this old preacher somehow managed to calendar three sermons to be delivered during the last two weeks of the...

Hansford Wheat Crop MovingThe wheat crop of the Spearman country is being rushed through the six big elevators at Spearman at a rapid rate these...

I've been using a computer for half a century. Late last year my computer crashed. Irredeemably. A few times in the past my laptops suffered...

100 Years Ago - 7/25/1924Be Careful How You Park Your CarOwing to the heavy traffic on Main Street during the past few weeks, the city officials...

100 Years Ago - 7/4/1924Fourth of JulyToday is the nation's greatest holiday. It is not being generally observed in Spearman. The banks and...

Is any challenge in life harder than being alone?I still hurt when I remember watching my father after Mom died. Before that malignant brain tumor...

100 years Ago - 6/20/1924Get Acquainted Special Left Tues.An exceptionally good delegation of Spearman people left on Tuesday morning, as was scheduled, to make the "get...

If you have ever been stuck in an hour-long traffic jam on a freeway in Los Angeles or Boston or Houston, you will understand (and maybe be amazed) at what I'm about to...

Do you remember Hank Ketchum? He created Dennis the Menace. Then the inimitable Ketchum was replaced by Marcus Hamilton. We had a new cartoonist,...