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TEA monkeys with evolution
Dave McNeely
      The Texas State Board of Education has evolved over the years, from appointed to elected to appointed to elected. But should its changes be defined as intelligent design? The latest flap at the Texas Education Agency was over the forced resignation of the agency's science curriculum overseer, Chris Castillo Comer.
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Get off 'island time' - toys needed now!
Mary Henkel Judson
      I'm hoping people are just taking "island time" a little too seriously this year. The city's first responders in charge of the Toy Round Up have told us this is the worst year yet for collection of toys to give to families that, without the toy drive, will not have presents under the tree Christmas morning.
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Ah, the 'hereness' of you
Cactus Pryor
      We are all under one sky. And be you yellow, brown black or white, I am you and you are me. I cry, you cry. I love, you love, I laugh, you laugh. The wind that brought the boogey man outside my rattling window brought him outside your flapping desert tent or your shaking palm leaf hut.
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Christmas? It's a snap!
      Steve Martaindale It was just a couple of days ago that I made the brilliant observation that it would be November soon and that Thanksgiving and Christmas would follow before we even knew it. See, I was right.
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Letters to the Editor
      Promote walking, biking The State Hwy. 361 expansion will not help the increased population. No matter how many more cars can travel on more lanes, they're all going to run into town.
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