Winter never stays outside. Every pair of boots carries slush, road salt and ice-melt residue into the car, where it melts, soaks into the carpet and dries into white stains and a musty smell. Left alone, that moisture can linger…
Tucked behind the rearview mirror, a dash cam rarely draws a second look until something goes wrong. A hit-and-run, a sudden lane change or a scrape in a parking lot often comes down to one driver’s word against another’s, and…
Few gifts are as quietly useful as a portable jump starter. For anyone who commutes on I-30 or I-49, hauls a pickup to a job site or shuttles kids to school, a dead battery can strike without warning. This guide…
Texarkana has a handy habit of giving you options. One evening might call for live music and dinner downtown; the next, a low-key film, a community gathering or simply a quiet night in. Because the city sits across the Texas…
Hot Springs and Oaklawn have been at the heart of Arkansas horse racing for over a century, and the racetrack is the host of the annual Arkansas Derby. This article will cover how Oaklawn grew from humble beginnings in the…
By David Ashby, CFP®, CPA, Mustard Seed Wealth Management A current TV commercial pictures a husband and wife having a brief financial discussion as he is gathering up his golf clubs to go play a round. He’s just recently retired…
The door on New Boston Road had a keypad. Behind it, a probable cause affidavit alleges, were gambling machines at Crown Gameroom in Texarkana, Texas. According to the affidavit, which TXK Today reported on this week, an undercover operative put…
On December 21, 2022, a rule took effect in Ohio that folded three separate exclusion programs into one. Casino floors, video lottery terminal venues and sports betting apps all came under a single application. The rule left no room to…
Walk north up State Line Avenue and you change states every time you cross the street. The federal building sits in both of them at once. Shoppers here have always treated that as a convenience rather than a complication, and…
Entertainment at home has changed a fair bit. One television may now host several streaming services, a mobile phone may hold games, social accounts and shopping apps, and a family tablet can be signed into more accounts than anyone can…
The growing popularity of online sweepstakes casinos is creating new questions about how digital entertainment could affect consumer spending in Texarkana. Due to this region straddling the state line between Texas and Arkansas, it has a rather unique relationship with…
Texarkana – The direction of professional trading infrastructure has been consistent for years. Spreads have compressed. Execution speeds have fallen. Transparency around fees has increased as traders have become more sophisticated about calculating the true cost per trade rather than…
By David Ashby, CFP®, CPA, Mustard Seed Wealth Management To paraphrase that old Led Zeppelin classic, if there’s a bustle in your bond fund, don’t be alarmed now. It’s just the Treasury interfering in free markets! Last week Treasury Secretary…
There is a specific kind of quiet that settles into a house when the hockey season finally wraps up. For months, the evenings have been defined by the frantic sound of skates on ice, the thud of a puck hitting…
Texarkana’s youth sports calendar no longer feels like a quiet side note to Friday night football. On a spring Saturday, baseball fields near Spring Lake Park fill before 8 a.m., parents hunt for coffee, and visiting teams roll in with…
