As you have been reading on JohnsonCountyEvents, I have been doing a series on starting a backyard garden to help offset the cost of groceries. This can also be used as family time to spend with the kids without the distraction of electronic games or phones. This past week I received a thank you email [...]
The AP released a new story today stating that the circulation of print newspapers is falling faster than it has ever fallen before. Also, our local newspaper came out with a 3/4 page ad yesterday claiming a print circulation of “almost 6500″. Is their circulation also falling? We live in a county of 200,000 citizens. [...]
My family has had the occasion to order 2 pizzas from Pizza Hut lately. The first pizza we ordered from them was the large pizza for $5.00 that they quite advertise heavily on TV. Ours was a cheese pizza. It tasted like they didn’t put the tomato sauce on it, it was bland and flat. [...]
The idea of using technology to control global warming may seem a bit farfetched, but the conversation has popped up at the White House more than once. President Obama’s Science Adviser John Holdren said that the idea has sprung due to the fact that global warming is happening so rapidly. The idea is called geoengineering, [...]
Today we had the pleasure of attending the Godley High School Band Pop’s in the Park Concert. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t so agreeable. The wind and drizzle caused the concert to be moved indoors. Even so the Godley Band rocked the house. Here they are playing The March of the Grand High Pubah. Thanks for [...]
After my last post when I said that CEOs of major corporations should stop being so greedy and taking multi-million dollar payouts with the state of the economy, I came to a new conclusion: Why doesn’t everyone in America start their own successful multi-million dollar business? Think about it, we could have about three million [...]
< Our Teacher of the Week is from Grandview Elementary. Ms. Phyllis Marti submitted the nomination. Please read her words: I would like to make a nomination for the teacher of the week, Karen Richardson. Karen teaches reading here at Grandview Elementary what she does for our struggling readers is nothing short of a [...]
Usually I would take this time to write a humor piece, but I read some news today that really shocked me. Of the 1,023 Americans surveyed by the Opinion Research Corp and CNN, 76 percent, or about 777 Americans, agreed that the government should let General Motors and Chrysler, America’s two biggest automotive companies, file [...]
Education has been getting a lot of bad knocks in the past many years. If one read and heard all the negative news one might come to the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing good coming out of the public education system. The faculty and staff within the Cleburne ISD are working hard every day [...]
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