The Stock Market and Jelly Beans
An experiment I’ve used in presenting to groups of people is to fill up a jar with jelly beans and pass it around the room. I ask each person to estimate the number of jelly beans in the jar, then…
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Congressman Pat Fallon Addresses Constituents and Announces Town Halls
Members of Congress have more bosses than just about anybody else in the United States, over 750,000 to be exact! My bosses live in Rockwall, Texarkana, Sherman, and all across Northeast Texas. They are patriots, veterans, parents, teachers, healthcare workers,…
Congressman Pat Fallon Addresses Constituents
When Bill Clinton and Barak Obama were president, many members of Congress vehemently opposed their policies and politics. We truly believed they had bad ideas for America, but most of us did not question their mental acuity because we had…
Texarkana Native Received $150,000 From Unclaimed Funds | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Eighty-six-year-old James Murphy could not have been more pleased to get a phone call about three months ago from Assets International informing him that he and his two siblings were entitled to hundreds of thousands in mineral royalties that they…
Single Parishioners 50+ Find Home at St. Edward Church | Arkansas-Catholic.org
Arkansas-Catholic.org, October 20, 2014 | About eight years ago, St. Edward Church’s business manager Janet Daddato noticed several people at loose ends after they had lost their spouses. She sent out invitations by postcard, and the idea took off from…
Mental Health Professionals “Give an Hour” to Veterans
Just imagine a post-9/11 veteran who suffers from depression not having to wait for treatment at the Veteran’s Administration clinic. That’s actually a reality through the “Give an Hour” program. And better yet – it’s also free. Founded in 2005…
The Dichotomy of Cigarettes
By JANE BECKERDITE I quit smoking two years ago. As Mark Twain said, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.” Well, I, too, have quit many times before. I once quit for six months, but for some…
Genoa High School Seeks Funds for Uniforms
By JANE BECKERDITE Cathy Smith is a determined woman. She wants the students at Genoa Central High School to have proper sheet music, instruments and dress uniforms like most school bands. “My granddaughter, Leigha, was in the band from 8th…
Texarkana Facebook Group Pays it Forward to Those in Need
By JANE BECKERDITE Nothing is for sale and everything is free. These are the basic rules of the Facebook group “Free Stuff Texarkana” and its processing location, “The Warehouse,” whose mission is to simply pay it forward. The Facebook group…
Son of Holocaust Survivor Recounts Liberation by Soldiers
By JANE BECKERDITE His mother was tattooed in Auschwitz with the alpha numeric “A-4813” on her forearm. John Singer’s mother,Marianne (Neumann) Singer, somehow managed to survive being shipped to four Nazi Germany concentration camps over a period of 28 months.…