Columns & Opinions

Religiosity

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C ontinuing our series on how religion determined the names of our years and months, let’s trace how the names of gods became the names of every day of our week. Who knew that when the Vikings invaded England in 793 AD and brought their Norse gods with them, those gods’ names would find their way into the English language and morph into what we call the days of our week.

Religiosity

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W hether you consider yourself religious or not, religion is very much a part of your everyday life. Last week we reviewed how each of the world’s major religions number the years differently.

Hot and cold running water heaters

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I ’m writing this toward the end of the latest cold spell. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to see a 70-degree day right about now. The fact that Zack has had a bad cold and a trip to the ER during this bout of frigid weather made everything worse.

Quakes prompt officials to limit disposal wells

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Capital Highlights T he Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas. The Austin American Statesman reported the 23 disposal wells hold hundreds of thousands of barrels of produced water, which is a toxic brine.

Arctic air, man cold, and ER trifecta

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A ll those sayings about Texas weather come to mind as I watch the temps drop from the 20s to the 10s on this chilly Sunday night. I was at Brookshire’s on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Not because of the weather. Just the way it worked out. We’ve had a lot going on. More about that later.

Religiosity

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Comparative Religions 2 024, of course! Well. Not so fast.

Voter registration deadline for primary approaches

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T he deadline to register to vote in the Texas Democratic and Republican primary elections is February 5. Voters on March 5 will choose their nominees for president, U.S. Senator, all 38 U.S. House members from Texas, and a number of other state and local offices, from the Texas Supreme Court to district attorneys, sheriffs and county commissioners.

Homemade dog food

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W e’ve come a long way since wolves might have hung around campfires of the earliest humans. Different explanations have been posited as to how humans began to domesticate wild wolves between 14,000 and 29,000 years ago, eventually turning them into man’s best friend.