The Rowlett Lakeshore Times. Prior to creating a web site, Larry Beckham said seniors in Rowlett would have to visit a multitude of places to get information.
“I have been involved with the seniors in Rowlett for several years.  Many of us meet at the Rowlett Community Center once a week to drink coffee and talk.  [...]

USA TODAY. Teens and young adults seem to live online, but a new report by the Pew Research Center finds that other generations are catching up: Generation X primarily uses the Internet for shopping and banking; Baby Boomers for travel reservations; and the 70-plus crowd for e-mail.
The analysis released Wednesday, called “Generations Online in 2009,” [...]

TIME Magazine. About half of all American adults (48%, according to a Marist poll taken in December) say they are at least somewhat likely to make a New Year’s resolution this year. Their top vows: to lose weight (19%), quit smoking (12%) and exercise more (10%). Sound familiar?
The Marist poll also found that while 65% [...]

Royse City Herald Banner. Rockwall County ranked second nationally in a CNNMoney.com list of the nation’s Top 25 counties for job growth between 2000 and 2008.
Rockwall County earned the ranking with an 84.9 percent increase in job growth over the eight-year period, according to CNNMoney.com.
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By Kay Maxwell. A year ago, in November of 2008, Rockwall resident Marilyn Mock (right, next to daughter Alyssa) reached out at a foreclosure auction in Dallas to help a sobbing, heart-broken stranger whose home was being auctioned off. 
In an extraordinary act of kindness, Mock bought the stranger’s home, and later made financial arrangements at her own [...]

By Jerry Hogan, US Army Lt. Colonel (retired). And the argument goes on! Sitting on one side of the table are the President and his civilian advisors trying to understand military operations so they can make a decision on what the US should do about Afghanistan going forward. On the other side sit the military Generals [...]

Rockwall County unemployment still at highest rate this century.
Rockwall County set some more dubious records last month, as it recorded its highest unemployment rate and the most people unemployed for any month this century.
Click here to read this Royse City Herald Banner story.

By J.J. Smith. State Farm Insurance, the state’s largest insurer of homes, has filed for a rate increase of up to 14.4 percent for Dallas area homeowners, making it the third of the state’s largest insurers to recently raise rates.
Farmers Insurance recently announced an average statewide increase in its rates of 10 percent to 12.6 percent, [...]

By J.J. Smith. The Oncor electricity delivery company wants its residential customers to pay $93 million for obsolete “smart meters” the company ordered but customers will now never use because they’re not up to state regulations. 
The issue is part of a pending Oncor rate increase which, if approved by the Public Utilities Commission later this year, will increase the [...]