Also, a barrage of Texas primary campaign calls and inside the recent L.A. Times poll numbers. My memory of William F. Buckley Jr., the pioneering conservative writer who died at 82 last week while writing at his desk in Connecticut, is from the prime of his life -- but also about the end of life.
Dear Jim: My children and I want to become greener. Using a solar water heater seems to make the most sense. I don't have much money for one. How can we build one ourselves? -- Pat F.
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Vincent I. Salazar of Lubbock, son of Vincent M. Salazar of Helotes and Rosa L. Ybarra, has graduated from the F-16 aircraft avionics systems apprentice course at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. Salazar is a 2003 graduate of Lubbock High School.
When William F. Buckley Jr. lived, he lived well. His death Tuesday night affords the rest of us the opportunity to apply life's measuring stick to calculate his effect on the world he called home for 82 years.
Turning point: After a free throw by Rodriguez's Patrick Greene free throw, Tony Johnson drove the length of the floor and hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to win it.
With the comparisons of the oratory of Barrack Obama to that of John F. Kennedy, I am reminded of a story of how some Louisiana political finagling made us one of the first states to support JFK on the national political stage, beginning at the 1956 convention in Chicago.
SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry said yesterday he was impressed after getting a look inside the new Onyx Fusion Bar & Restaurant. "I'll do an event here," Kerry said, shortly after paying his first visit to the new Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame across the parking lot.
PUBLIC EDUCATION FORUM , hosted by the D-FW chapters of the Muslim American Society and the MAS Freedom Foundation, will feature representatives of various Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and parties at 1 p.m. today at the MAS Youth Center, 740 F Avenue, Suite 303. E-mail office@mycdfw.org or visit www.mycdfw.org.