Note: This story ties into Matt’s Musings 3/21.
I was watching Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel on HBO the other night; his show tackles not only big stories in major-league sports, but sports across the country.
They covered a story about schools across the U.S. prohibiting kids from playing dodgeball.
Their reason: Not everyone wins in dodgeball, and [...]
School teachers may need to rethink their age old tradition of not allowing students to chew gum in their classrooms.
But a recent study by U.S. researchers has shown that students who chew gum in class – especially those in math classes – perform better than those who don’t chew gum.
The 14-week study was funded by [...]
Who would have thought that one day high school students would be getting paid by the state for their good grades?
Where exactly was this when I was in high school?
State representative Joe Deshotel, D-Beaumont, filed a bill to the Texas Legislators that would pay high school students at lower performing schools for their good grades.
I [...]
May is going to be a busy month around Johnson County. If you are looking for things to do outdoors we have it listed. Starting this coming weekend with the SpringFest in Cleburne and ending the month with a crawfish boil in Godley. Please check out our Spring Events listing under Seasonal Events in the [...]
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 from [...]
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. Cleburne [...]
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, a concept [...]
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 Americans [...]
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 for [...]
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