opinion

They're harmless ... as harmless as plastic ocean litter can be anyway ... they're small and they have a very unique look after being through wind, rough currents, weather and getting scraped by sea salt. Unexplained piggy banks, of unknown origin, are washing up on Texas beaches. Again.

Supposedly temporary nuclear waste dump sites were approved for use in the Permian Basin back in 2021. Even then, questions were raised about how "temporary" these waste dumps would be as they were designed to last decades.

Take 3 or 4 friends with you and you could elect yourself mayor. The visitors to residents ratio in this tiny, yet famous, Texas town is 50,000 to 3. On any given day, there may be 100 or more visitors in town to have a beer and catch one of the almost constant concerts while weekend music festivals can draw over 1,000.

Despite all the flack Willie Nelson has taken for his pro marijuana attitude and 4 arrests for possession ... he was one of several artists busted in Sierra Blanca, near El Paso ... he has proudly and downright flagrantly kept on puffin'. Those days are over.

People lucky enough to have been born in Texas are already special but some are even more special than others. No matter the state, peeps born on these dates are different. According to horoscope.com: "Numerology is an ancient study that draws meaning from different numbers, number combinations, letters, and symbols in your life".  ...

The USA is divided into several regions and Texas, being always a little different and reluctant to conform, doesn't exactly fit any of the established ones like the Midwest, Pacific northwest or Great Plains for example.

Sure, El Paso has its issues. What big city doesn't? We don't have as many as other big cities do though and that was just validated by yet another accolade for the 915; this one coming from US News & World Report.

Texans LOVE Texas - we all know that. I know people who live in other states and have talked to people while visiting other states and I have yet to find anybody with the same level of state pride as a Texan.

In The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, the headless horseman is the ghost of a soldier killed during the American Revolution. The Headless Horseman of Texas wasn't involved in anything as noble.

Elon Musk and his Space X project have pretty much solidified their presence in Texas and now it seems he wants to run the state completely. At the least, he wants control over a certain (beautiful) chunk of it, including what property owners do with their land.