Retired Baseball Star on Red River’s Slopes
Todd van Poppel & family favor New Mexico ski area I’d be lying if I wrote that I skied with Todd Van Poppel, who was recruited right out of high school by the Oakland A’s in 1990 and played Major League ball for a dozen years. But I did ski on the same slope at [...]
Daily Beast’s New Airport Rankings
The Daily Beast studied, rated and ranked 27 US airports The Daily Beast’s provocative headline, “Airports from Hell,” is affixed to an analysis of 27 top airports in the US in eight specific areas, including on-time arrivals/departures so far in 2009 and a separate evaluation of holiday arrivals and departures, which is oh-so timely. The subtitle is [...]
Visiting Fort Davis, a West Texas Civil Rights Site
The election of America’s first black president underscores the story of the US Army’s Buffalo Soldiers With Barack Obama set to become the first American president of African-American descent, 3,000 or so of the 19th century Army veterans who served at Fort Davis must be high-fiving each other somewhere in the beyond. The remote post [...]
