The Waco Citizen

Keep Waco Beautiful saved us Here’s my picture after I cut my finger picking up a broken glass and some of the Baylor students who helped me. We reported about the city of Waco jumping on me because some hoodlums dumped some discards on my lot. What started it was our decision to have a [...]

by Bill Foster Germany makes lighter cars, saving gas I get a magazine from Germany called de. The Germans seem to be ahead of us in many ways. Each month they have stories and pictures of the things they are doing in Germany. For instance Mercedes Benz is coming out with a car made of [...]

Lucas Oil — Rags to riches story  While we’re hearing a lot about Robert Griffin III at the NFL Scouting  Combine Feb. 28 at the Lucas Oil Stadium, in Indianapolis, you probably  don’t know about Forrest Lucas who is paying $122 Million over 20 years to  put his name on the stadium. It is a [...]

Price of gas getting to you? If the price of gas at the pump is getting to you, there’s good news for you. But you may have to wait a few years. Germany is ahead of us. All German vehicle manufacturers are developing hybrid engines or battery-electric vehicles. Mercedes is also forging ahead with fuel [...]

Let’s develop the river now During our visit to the Alamo Bowl we got a fresh look at the remarkable river walk in downtown San Antonio. Here’s a view I took there on that Thursday. I keep thinking our powers that be will see the viability of a revised river walk. For sure we need [...]

WHEW! What a ride we have been on. Robert Griffin III, Coach Art Briles, and all the Baylor football players get a big thanks from all of us. Don’t forget Kim Mulkey and the Lady Bears are taking us to new heights too. No. one in the country. All this success must have rubbed off [...]

Our challenge to you — our readers Ever wonder why we let Iowa, New Hampshire and other states decide who will be our next president? Looks like it will be decided even before Texans get to vote. Now with Perry in the race, if we get to vote we could get a lot of votes [...]

Baylor’s success: starts with the money Like in business, you need money to start a business and be successful. At Baylor they have a whole department seeking funds. They call it Development. They visit former grads, mostly wealthy in their older years. They persuade them to give their millions to Baylor. They promise to take [...]

City of Waco–good and bad The city of Waco does some good things, and sometimes some dumb things. A street near my office had a bump in it for years. I didn’t report it because I didn’t think it would do any good. But low and behold one day seven trunks from Lindsey Contractors came [...]

So many help others during these holiday seasons This is the time of year we hope for sunshiny days everyday. Put the bad news off till after Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are so many agencies that do good trying to help others are that are not so fortunate. A great number of organizations help others. [...]