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Organizing, hosting EC festival can boost community
MAYOR PHILLIP SPENRATH
      The Poteet Strawberry Festival, Fiesta San Antonio, Stonewall Peach Jamboree, Luling Watermelon Thump, and the El Campo.... Let's start a festival! Organizing and hosting a festival is a huge accomplishment for any community. A festival can be an incredibly satisfying experience for all those wh...
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Coffee, dancing start day harmoniously
SLIM RANDLES
      Dud brought the accordion in the other day. Right there in the Mule Barn truck stop, in the middle of hot cakes and coffee and grits. We started to groan as he opened the case and lifted the shiny stomach Steinway and pulled the straps over his shoulders.
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Real, federal budgeting methods bear no resemblance to one another
JOHN CORNYN U.S. SENATOR
      The late William F. Buckley once observed that "The spirit of Christmas extends throughout the congressional season, and a penny here, a penny there, results in $100 billion per year deficits." As it turns out, Buckley was optimistic. Since he wrote those words 25 years ago, the projected federal...
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