The Waco Citizen

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. [...]

HOT Fair has worst PR year ever I was invited to the stockyards for the 21st Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering Saturday. I wasn’t there ten minutes until I was met by Gary Brinkley, a former Baylor Business major. He said he was in charge of the 78 acre Stockyards. He directed me to the right [...]

Idea for Mayborn Museum I visited the Mayborn Museum a couple of times. Saw a nice train set. Then I saw some Egyptian Mummies Before that I saw the Dinosour bones. But what got my attention most was what was the start of printing and communications in Texas. They had some hand type and some [...]

Our Mission By Bill Foster, Editor & Publisher In the newspaper business we are dealing with people’s life’s everyday. You have heard it before: Death & Taxes. Since we are an official paper, this means the legals we run affect your lives. If the people vote for a bond issue the taxes go up on [...]

Labor Day was Monday, but we are saluting all the working people of America today. We have been impressed with the dedicated people rushing to finish enough of the memorial in New York city in time for the tenth anniversary of the attack on America. It’s a massive job to commemorate the destruction of the [...]

Post Office needs lesson in customer service Sometime I think the post office needs to learn some customer service lessons. Maybe then they might do a little better. Example A: We mailed a bill to one of our new advertisers. The whole package came back. The P O said the customer had no post office [...]