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26 - Matthew T. Sussman
It's like watching D-II college football. All the talent rises to the top where the money (or promises of) exists. Papers like that will get entry-level reporters for one or two years before they jump up to a large metro.
27 - Natalie Davis
Not all of it.
28 - MCH
"Texas has...more hunting and camping areas than any other state."
- Dave Nalle
We could put all your hunting and camping areas combined under water at Flathead Lake and Fort Peck Resevoir up here in Montana, Nalle.
29 - Dave Nalle
Land that's under water isn't much use for hunting or camping, though it's useful for fishing.
And just for the record, the surface are of Ft. Peck Lake is 393 sq miles and the surface area of Flathead Lake is 200 sq miles. Together that's about half the area of Big Bend National Park here in Texas, which measures at 1253 sq miles.
Be proud of your state, though. It does have some damned fine hunting. There's just more of an endless volume of relatively crappy hunting and open space here in Texas. Plus down here you CAN hunt monkeys, and no one else in the US can claim that.
Dave
30 - Eric Olsen
so they allow "zoo thinning" down there?
31 - Dave Nalle
That might be amusing, but in actuality there are a bunch of lab monkeys that got loose int he Rio Grande Valley and started breeding and subsequently attacking people, and are thought to carry diseases, so they are now considered varmints you can shoot at will.
dave
32 - Mark Saleski
if i had to live in texas, it would defintely be in austin.
i think the heat'd kill me tho...
33 - Dave Nalle
We've had two freezing nights in a row so far thsi week, Mark. Two weeks ago it was 108.
The extremes are somewhat alarming.
Dave
34 - Mark Saleski
i bet that freezing weather felt extra cold. i mean, up in nh it gets cold but we're used to it (doesn't stop us from bitching about it..). i do remember when i lived in florida when i was a little kid. when it got cold we thought the end was near.
35 - Nancy
No doubt about it, Texas has some amazing geographic & atmospheric parameters. Wild monkeys in the Rio Grande...? You'd think they'd put a bounty on them; that would get rid of them quicker, probably. And Montana...God, I'd love to visit Montana someday, along w/Alaska. Used to live in NH - gorgeous state, lovely people. Is it much built up around the Hillsboro/Deering area these days, Mark? I haven't been up for years. My grandfather had a sugaring operation every spring on his farm. The aroma still haunts me. Thanks.
36 - Eric Olsen
the mix of diseased monkeys and illegals around the Rio Grande sounds both exotic and disastrous
37 - Nancy
The possibilities for Enquirer headlines with that material are mind boggling.
38 - Eric Olsen
whatever you do, don't eat the monkeys