Take time to honor veterans this week
Our Viewpoint
      The holidays are quickly approaching and people will be rushing around without a worry in the world shopping for that elusive gift or traveling from one part of our country to visit relatives in another part. We will walk freely in malls and stores searching for that perfect gift.
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Letters to the Editor
Your Viewpoint
      Thanks for help By CODY MCBRIDE Brookeland On Friday, Oct. 19, a benefit fish fry was held for Susan Muncrief, the four-year-old daughter of William and Crystal Muncrief. The benefit was very successful, but it wouldn't have been so without the help of so many people.
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Diplomats reluctant to serve in Bagdad?
Guest Commentary
Mack Hall
      "I shall have to delay you for a few minutes. You see the Legation is only just open and we have not yet got our full equipment. We are expecting the rubber stamp any minute now.
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Audit shows hurricane relief funds largely unspent
Capital Highlights
Ed Sterling Texas Press Association
      A USTIN - Now the public has information about what's been happening with federal funding Texas received to help recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The State Auditor's Office on Nov. 1 released a report showing that most of the $523.7 million in disaster funding received by Texa...
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