Monthly Archives: January 2014
Think about concussions on Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl is coming up in just a few days. You’ll gather up some food and drinks. You’ll sit in front of a TV. Twenty-two professional football players will take the field and they’ll kick off the biggest game of the year. The Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks will play for the Lombardi […]
What to look for at State of the Union
Barack Obama has many constitutional duties as president of the United States and he’ll perform one of them Tuesday night when he delivers his State of the Union speech. It will be the second such speech of his second — and final — term as president. These events are full of pomp and a good […]
Egypt’s story continues to unfold
Bombings keep killing people in Egypt, where tyranny was supposed to give way to what was called the Arab Spring. It’s not happening. How has this story unfolded? Frontline is telling it and is streaming online videos of past programming that walks viewers through this amazing tale. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/revolution-in-cairo/?elq=78afbcfc12ce40b7a4cdaee386d338bc&elqCampaignId=809 “Revolution in Cairo,” was shown in 2011 […]
Lieutenant governor debate coming up
Texas’s most powerful office is being contested by four high-powered Republicans, one of whom is the current holder of that office. They’re going to debate each other Monday night in an event being broadcast live across the state. That means Panhandle PBS viewers will get a good look at these individuals beginning at 8 p.m. […]
Scholar briefly becomes a household name
Reza Aslan’s name isn’t readily recognizable to millions of Americans. But for a time not long after the 2012 presidential election, he became known to a lot more Americans than he otherwise might have been. He wrote a book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.” He went on TV to promote his […]
Writing has become a lost art
It’s been said that writing no longer is a primary form of communication, that it has become a victim of the Internet Age. Letters have been supplanted by emails, text messages and Twitter posts — many of which are written in some kind of shorthand to conform to strict limits on allowed characters. American Experience, […]
‘Game Change,’ part two, up next on Overheard
I am happy to announce that I am the proud owner of “Double Down: Game Change 2012.” It came to me as a Christmas gift. I haven’t read it just yet, but will get to it soon. It’s worth mentioning here because Evan Smith, editor in chief of the Texas Tribune, has interviewed the book’s […]
American Experience looks back at 1964
For many millions of Americans, the end of 1963 couldn’t have gotten here quickly enough. Just five weeks before New Year’s Day 1964, the world was reeling with the death of an American president at the hands of an assassin. We buried John F. Kennedy and looked ahead to the new year with a sense […]
Cruz creates new Texas GOP brand
Ted Cruz has created a new brand for other Texas Republican to emulate. Or, depending on your point of view, he has created a monster. The Texas Tribune’s Aman Batheja looks at the Cruz model while analyzing the budding campaign for the U.S. Senate by Steve Stockman, the current congressman from the 36th Congressional District […]
Gov. Perry starts his long good bye
The Texas governor’s power lies in the appointments he makes. They serve as a legacy of sorts after the governor leaves office. What’s more, the policies enacted by the appointees have this way of lasting even longer than that. Thus, Gov. Rick Perry’s appointments to key boards and commissions over the course of his record-setting […]
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