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“Did you know that your rear passenger tire is a little underinflated?”
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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6/30/22
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Sitting in my home office I am greeted by a cool breeze coming through my open window and the sweet sounds of summer outside.
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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6/30/22
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A few days ago, my wife and I joined some friends for a gathering during a few rare hours when we weren’t busy hauling a teenager to some kind of expensive activity or hosting an entire herd of them at our home to ransack our pantry and abuse the plumbing.
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By Jase Graves, Special to the Katy Times
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6/23/22
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As temperatures rise and drought intensification appears inevitable for much of Texas this summer, a new report released by the Center for Public Finance at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, in partnership with Texas 2036, calculates the price Texas might soon pay for worsening droughts.
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By Jeremy Mazur, Special to the Katy Times
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6/23/22
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Americans are so angry about so many things — with partisan politics topping the list.
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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6/15/22
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Wow! Will this really be my 19th Father’s Day as a father?
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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6/15/22
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I know parents are asking themselves this question today: As a parent concerned about the safety of my child at school how do I get involved?
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By Paul Sadler, Special to the Katy Times
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6/8/22
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The only worry I had was that Old Man Miller might be hiding out behind the shed trying to catch us running through his garden when we played “Tag” in our back yards.
If you grew up in …
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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6/8/22
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Hollywood makes iconic catch phrases seem easy.
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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6/1/22
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Should you invest in the stock market now or wait?
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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6/1/22
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been engaged in a WWE cage match against allergies. No, it’s not COVID. I promise, it’s not COVID. Really, even when I blow my nose so loudly that it triggers nearby home and car alarm systems, it’s still not COVID.
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By Jase Graves, Special to the Katy Times
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5/25/22
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So I can spend more time with my family, I am turning this week’s column over to a bright fourth-grade student from an unnamed American small town.
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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5/25/22
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Honest, I’m going to write a book chockful of random thoughts someday (my more serious book about religion is already available on Amazon), but deadline pressures keep forcing me to cannibalize my ideas for this column instead.
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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5/18/22
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After all these years, my dad inspires me still.
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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5/18/22
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It all started with the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, and it’s one of the few lingering effects of the experience that hasn’t tempted me to seek intense electroshock therapy.
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By Jase Graves, Special to the Katy Times
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5/11/22
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I started my first business in the 5th grade when I convinced a neighbor to allow me to cut her grass with her electric lawn mower.
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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5/11/22
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“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
Those are the clever words of British humorist Terry Pratchett, who couldn’t have explained the aging process …
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By Tom Purcell, Special to the Katy Times
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5/4/22
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Millions of young women dream of being honored on Mother’s Day.
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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5/4/22
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The concept of “parking” loses most of its mystique as you get past the giddy days of a freshly minted driver’s license and shoulder the responsibilities of adulthood.
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By Danny Tyree, Special to the Katy Times
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4/27/22
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Depending on when you’re reading this, my 52nd birthday is/was on April 20th, which, as my dad still loves to remind me, is the same day as Adolf Hitler’s. As a child, I remember thinking that 52 was an age that might be reached by an elderly Galapagos tortoise or a giant redwood tree—certainly not a human.
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By Jase Graves, Special to the Katy Times
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4/27/22
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