NewsTalk 1290 News & Talk of Texoma » stimulus http://newstalk1290.com Mon, 20 May 2013 01:46:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 You Can Learn A Lot In Line At The Store http://newstalk1290.com/you-can-learn-a-lot-in-line-at-the-store/ http://newstalk1290.com/you-can-learn-a-lot-in-line-at-the-store/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:35:51 +0000 Mike Hendren http://newstalk1290.com/?p=2337

I'm standing in line the other day with two items in hand.  In front of me are 11 others, baskets heaving with groceries, toilet paper, Justin Beiber CD's and $5 videos.  More than once I've found myself on their side of this scene (minus the Beiber CD's, of course-that would just be creepy).  I'd notice th

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/you-can-learn-a-lot-in-line-at-the-store/feed/ 0 (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) No Matter What, Somebody's Gonna Get Mad http://newstalk1290.com/no-matter-what-somebodys-gonna-get-mad/ http://newstalk1290.com/no-matter-what-somebodys-gonna-get-mad/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:11:54 +0000 Mike Hendren http://newstalk1290.com/?p=945 Texas has been fortunate.  The housing market here didn't go ballistic in terms of prices the way some areas of the country did back  in the '90s and the early part of the 21st century.  So when the whole housing mess imploded in 2008, the fall didn't hurt quite as much here.  But it hurt a little.  Our state isn't quite as far in the hole as, say,

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