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Can Patterson sell Christmas?
Dave McNeely
      Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is on the verge of being tagged as The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Or, more accurately, The Grinch who sold the state-owned Christmas Mountains in West Texas to wealthy investors.
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Looking from the outside in
Mary Henkel Judson
      Port Aransas has changed - a lot - since we made it our fulltime home in May of 1983. I loved it then and I love it now, even with the changes. Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to keep Port Aransas what it was in the 1950s, or '60s or '70s, or even the '80s, we forget that some things never change.
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The buzz on terrorism
Steve Martaindale
      Our country is under attack. Terrorists who look just like those who have inhabited the United States for generations are slipping across the border with Mexico undetected. Once here, they often go underground or brazenly infiltrate established societies.
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Shopping for 'foreign' brides
Cactus Pryor
      You may not have heard the latest, but bunches of American guys are marrying Russian gals and bringing them back to the Old USA. The guys say that they can't find the "loves of their lives" here in the old USA, and they hear that the Russian gals are more than good looking - and like to meet American guys who can afford roundtrips to Russia.
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