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On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
Students across the Siouxland Empire recently competed in an essay contest, celebrating Human Rights Day. The day, honored each Dec. 10, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Universal ...
I'm Australian, but my wife is Texan, so we spend two months a year living in her home state. Some significant differences between the two places initially came as a culture shock.. I'm surprised ...
Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources , stifled competition , reduced wealth creation , lost government revenue , heightened income inequality , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] risk of growing corruption and cronyism , decreased public trust in ...
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas is a 1968 collection of essays by American writer Larry McMurtry. In 1981 McMurtry said the book marked a dividing line in his career after which he no longer wrote about living in the country (although he would go on to write books with country settings again).
The Texas Folklife Festival is an annual event sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures celebrating the many ethnicities represented in the population of the state of Texas. Thousands attend the three-day event each year, which features food, crafts, music, and dances from ethnic groups that immigrated ...
Despite a rapidly growing population that would normally drive living costs much higher, Texas remains one of the more affordable states in the country. Only 14 states have lower average costs of...
At the 2010 census, Texas had a population of 25.1 million—an increase of 4.3 million since the year 2000, involving an increase in population in all three subcategories of population growth: natural increase (births minus deaths), net immigration, and net migration. Texas added almost 4 million people between the 2010 and 2020 census'. [9]