The Waco Citizen

After I learned what this Social Work thing was that Baylor moved downtown in the former First National Bank building, I wanted to investigate it further. Jeff Wall, City of Waco director of housing and community development, introduced me to two intern students assigned to him. Stephen Bayes and Kasey Ashenfelter. Then he invited me [...]

Our Moody Suburban Courier will be celebrating 120 years old starting in January.  We printed our Centennial Edition January 24, 1991. Since then the world has changed. We have had to change to stay in business. Now we make up pages and send them over the internet with PDF files (Don’t ask me what that [...]

The Greater Waco Community Education Alliance is looking at Waco Schools and what to do about them. I have some questions for them. Why did the Waco schools let the kids out of school all week? I could understand Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. But with jobs hard to get and keep, this upsets the [...]

There are so many good things happening, we don’t know where to start. Guess we’ll start with our meeting about Waco and tourism. Liz Taylor, in charge of the Waco Convention & Visitors Bureau gave us an update of events. She and her crew at the convention center are doing a great job. The new [...]

The radio talk shows are going crazy over President Obama’s 10 day trip to India. They say it is costing too much. Every time a president moves or travels it is always a costly operation. We saw that here in Waco with President Bush. And they say he is going there for political reasons. Everything [...]

Term Limits sounds like a good idea for some people, but really it goes against you. In Washington seniority is what’s counts. And the longer you are in Washington the more seniority you have because others are dropping out.   W. R. (Bob) Poage stayed in the office 42 years. As a result we have [...]

As we write this the weather is perfect. Sunshine, not too hot. Not cold. But the weather men predict a storm brewing up North. So here’s some suggestions to get ready for winter. Program emergency numbers into your cell phone. If a storm comes it could knock out your land lines. Program in the electric [...]

Had lunch  with Othel Neely last week. He was the 2nd general manager of the Heart of Texas Fair. A PR man for the fair back them was Boyce House. He came here from the successful Fort Worth Stock Show. No doubt the stock show is still bigger. I was up there a couple times. [...]