Aug 31, 2009 | KCBD-TV Lubbock
Fire destroys Shallowater home
Fire destroyed a Shallowater family's home Saturday afternoon. Flames engulfed a mobile home in Shallowater just before 1:00 p.m. Crews from Shallowater, West Carlisle, and New Deal doused the blaze quickly, but the family's home could not be saved.
Sam Tanenhaus on the Death of Conservatism
Reagan and Buckley in 1988. A A The editor of The New York Times Book Review and the paper's "Week in Review" section, Sam Tanenhaus is the biographer of Whittaker Chambers and is at work on the life of William F. Buckley Jr.
Don't Just Praise Him. Honor Him.
The passing of Ted Kennedy has left a void in the Senate and in the hearts of Americans.
The president is a prisoner of the cult of neoliberalism
Beginning in the Carter years, the Democrats later called neoliberals supported the deregulation of infrastructure industries that the New Deal had regulated, like airlines, trucking and electricity, a sector in which deregulation resulted in California blackouts and the Enron scandal.
Recycling plant owner was convicted
The recycling plant that has for the second time soaked up major fire-fighting resources violated state environmental regulations for years, and a court date to settle the matter loomed when a blaze erupted there on Monday, documents The Avalanche-Journal obtained on Tuesday show.
Making Woodstock a symbol of the '60s simplifies its massive, beautiful reality
Woodstock turns 40 this weekend, long after most of its attendees did the same. Yes, that muddy, mind-altered weekend on Max Yasgur's farm has entered middle age, which makes it, in the parlance of its day, 10 years too old to be trusted.
Complaints by two Lubbock residents could delay alcohol sales
A pair of Lubbock residents want state alcohol regulators to determine whether countywide alcohol sales violate state laws, adding another potentially long wait to alcohol sales in city limits.
Several fire departments battle blaze at recycling plant
Firefighters are working to contain a blaze that started at a Lubbock County recycling center after the owner of the plant started the fire while trying to refuel his truck, Lubbock County Sheriff's officials said.
Common Folk Using Common Sense
FIRST REVOLUTION: The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent.
In my first foray into political life in the 1970s, I worked during college on the staff of a liberal Democrat in the Texas state Senate.