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Baron Batch to Speak to Midland Audience

from:Midland College

By Rebecca Bell

Recalling wetter times ... MC alum Brad Swendig inducted into WJCAC Hall of Fame

from:Midland College

By Rebecca BellDean of Community Relations & Special EventsFormer Midland College Chaparral swimmer Brad Swendig will be formally inducted into the 2012 Class of the Western...

Short spree for this bank robber

This seems like a rather remarkable feat of law enforcement action. Yesterday (Thursday 2/9/12) just before 4pm a Bank of America branch bank was robbed in Midland, Texas.

A liberal, a moderate and a conservative walk into a bar

Santorum supporter tells a joke at CPAC : A liberal, a moderate and a conservative walk into a bar. Bartender looks up and says, "Hi Mitt." As seen on TV, C-Span's CPAC...

Sweets with Your Sweetheart to Save the Girls

from:American Airpower Heritage Museum

Midland, TX---Looking for something unique and fun to do with your Valentine this year? Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the CAF Airpower Museum at Sweets with Your Sweetheart....

Phi Theta Kappa’s recipe for success

from:Midland College

EDITOR's NOTE: The following commentary comes from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) is the international honor society of two-year

Ginsberg has a point

Conservative talk show hosts have been blasting Ruth Bader Ginsberg lately over her remark that the U.S. Constitution might not be the best model for a new country's...

Chap, Lady Chap Basketball to raise awareness, honor achievement

from:Midland College

By Forrest Allen

IRS just trying to be helpful

Most people probably have a love/hate relationship with the IRS. The IRS folks are just doing their jobs. The politicians are the real enemies. They created an incomprehensible...

AmericanTowns Heroes: Ariana Hargis is a Real Livesaver

Ariana Hargis is the kind of lifeguard you want on duty when your loved ones are in the pool. She's a quick-thinking, focused professional with eyes in the back of her head. When...

British TV show wants Midland family for twin city family swap

This really sounds intriguing, if it isn't a scam. There's an outfit called Knickerbockerglory that is looking for a fun family in Midland, Texas, to swap places with a...

A good laugh for dog lovers

Anyone who either likes dogs, dislikes busybodies, or enjoys a good retort should appreciate this. It's a letter from novelist E.B. White dated 4/12/51 to

It depends on your perspective

Sometimes a problem might appear insurmountable. But if you step back and look at it from a different angle you might get a completely different perspective. For example, well,...

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Withdrawl

That word shows up at the Midland Independent School District website, and it's either a typo or a misspelling. They meant "withdrawal," but it sounds like something out of a...

Hurry ... this special offer won't last long!

from:Midland College

In an effort to provide college courses to those students who were not able to enroll during the regular spring semester registration period, Midland College (MC) will offer a 12...

Texas Mutual Insurance Company awards $100K to Midland College

from:Midland College

By Rebecca BellDean of Community Relations & Special Projects

Romance not in the air according to Redbox

We're number 2. That's in the "least romantic" city category in this unflattering Redbox news release which ranks our fair city of Midland, Texas, as number 2 with our...

As of right now, Harley-Davidson is doing everything right

Here at the Superbike Blog, I've been writing quite a bit lately about Harley-Davidson and its seemingly very successful attempts to reinvent itself in the face of a changing...

Fast Draw Shooters

There's a trend among the handgun buying public these days toward semi-automatics that do not have manual safeties. "Safeties are for sissies," perhaps is the attitude. Some...

Copycat suicides

It seems epidemic. Four teens have committed suicide in the past few months in the city, and one has to wonder why. Maybe it's the obsession with movie vampires -- they...

In Memory ...

from:Midland College

The MC flags are being flown at half-staff in memory of Larry Hagler, MC Police Officer at the Advanced Technology Center. Larry passed away on Sunday, January 29. Details of a...

Today in history -- assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson

This could be the first presidential assassination attempt conspiracy theory in American History. The conventional wisdom was that Richard Lawrence was a crazy lone

Goodbye Good Dog

Dogs have provided such great comfort to people for so long. It makes one wonder how it started. Did feral canines follow the cavemen for food scraps? And how long did it take...

Uncle Sam as stick up man

This cartoon pretty much sums up what a lot of people feel about the government these days. But the government is merely system of rules. It's the people in charge who are...

Love those entrepreneurs

There are fewer stories more exhilarating than ones about the entrepreneurial spirit. There's a site out that's full of small entrepreneurs called fiverr.com. It...

The SOPA meltdown message - apply that skepticism to all legislation

The other day I marveled at the ease with which the internet biggies brought down SOPA and PIPA in a post that ended with this, "... it makes one wonder what else an...

Literacy and Waywardness

from:Midland College

Mary BraseltonDirector, Associate of Arts in Teaching ProgramMidland CollegeThe term wayward kids isn’t used much anymore. Yet, few among us have not

Obama's tool: Warren Buffet's secretary

Michelle Obama's seat mate at BHO's state of the union address tonight will be none other than Warren Buffett's secretary. She, you will recall, was said by her boss,...

Tivo news - software and new hardware

TiVo is finally pushing out a software release that people seem to like. Tivo Community forum members generally have given the update a thumbs-up and that is a tough group to...

Commemorative Air Force And Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Join Forces To Share American Aviation History

Midland, TX - On Fri., Jan. 20, 2012, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI) announced a new alliance that brings together two of the nation’s premier...

Calling all caricatures!

from:Midland College

There's a neat story in the Midland Reporter-Telegram about an exhibit coming later this spring to MC's McCormick Gallery. It will also be a tribute to Dr. Stan Jacobs,...

Are they sorry again?

Remember those "I'm sorry" photos from way back in 2008? It was a website where Democrats could post photos of themselves holding signs expressing regret for having that mean

Where do internet users pick up viruses?

The answer Zonealarm.com would give to that question is "Facebook." The infographic found at that link says that Facebook intercepts 600,000 attempts at login...

See You at Chap Center, Monday?

from:Midland College

By Forrest Allen

From Around the World to Your College

from:Midland College

By Lesley IsaacsMC Media SpecialistFor the average person, Midland, Texas doesn’t seem like an exciting locale, but over 60 international students now call Midland, Texas...

Washing their hands of SOPA

The mass digital demonstration the other day by some of the internet biggies against SOPA and PIPA had stunning results with many in Congress changing their minds about their...

Where Glocks came from

Daniel Horan reviews Paul M. Barrett's book, "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun," in today's Wall Street Journal, and it provides a short and interesting summary of...

Eric Holder, Voter ID, and Texas

Most of us out here in flyover country have trouble understanding just what the problem is with requiring voters to show a photo ID. More to the point, we have trouble with...

Released Gitmo detainee sues for damages -- Judge says No

Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko must have thought he would have an easy time with his case when he got the same judge who signed his release to hear his case for damages for his...

Assimilating with the majority

There's a provocative article at physorg.com that notes a study conducted at a couple of college campuses with the purported conclusion that people in the majority expect...

The 99% consume what the 1% create

They make it look so easy, those dang one percenters that the occupiers are so obsessed with. It's tempting to suggest that the occupiers are really just resentful of the...

Paparazzi 1950

One of the treasures in my neighbor's box from her time in Europe in 1950 was a photo of a genuine celebrity, Constance Bennett, 46 years of age in this photo. My neighbor...

Hey ... I know that guy!

I'd like to offer a shout out - hat tip, kudos, whatever - to Cindeka Nealy, a staff photographer for the Midland Reporter-Telegram, who got some MAJOR exposure today,...

What goes up -- bullets fired in the air

Some cultures have a practice of shooting a gun into the air as a form of celebrating something, New Year's Eve, for example. A few years ago the Mythbusters explored a myth...

Future “I. V.” Leaguers

from:Midland College

By Rebecca BellDean of Community Relations and Special Events“Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill.”

Ice fishing optical illusion

It's almost an optical illusion, and it makes a clever scene. The label says it's in a lake in Vaala, Finland. And what you see is some guys in wet suits and scuba gear...

John Hyde, Midland College and Me

from:Midland College

By Jeff McDonaldWeb Editor, Midland CollegeThe MC flag was set to half-staff this week in memory of Judge John G. Hyde, District Judge of the 238th District Court for 22 years....

News Flash -- most interesting man in the world not that interesting

He's Jonathan Goldsmith, born Jonathan Lippe on 9/26/38 in NY, NY. And he plays the character in the Dos Equis commercials called "the most interesting man in the world"...