This Memorial Day weekend marks the 40th annual National Polka Festival in Ennis, Texas, a town about 40 miles south of Dallas.

Sixteen undergraduate engineering students from across the United States gather today at Rice University in Houston in preparation for depar...

The Eisemann Center's season of musicals came to a close tonight with the final performance of A Chorus Line . It was probably the best ...

"About 158 nations have included a specific measure in their constitutions promulgating one or more national languages, according to a ...

According to The Dallas Morning News, "three Richardson schools are considering changing their mascots to voluntarily comply with a di...

RISD Superintendent Jim Nelson is leaving the RISD. That's too bad. He had good credentials and a good management style. He wasn't a...

According to a story in The Dallas Morning News, TXU spends up to $25 million per year trimming trees near their power lines. And some Rich...

I attended the Senior Recognition ceremony at Richardson's Berkner High School tonight. Watching and listening as several hundred young ...

Economists from the University of Chicago value a cure for cancer at $50 trillion. Just a one percent reduction in cancer mortality would be...

"An estimated 75% of U.S. taxpayers now pay more in Social Security and Medicare taxes than they do in income tax." -- Time, May ...