Making Your Dot-com Boom
The Internet has been touted as the best thing that’s happened to business since the invention of the storefront. But that doesn’t mean that doing business electronically is the same as making sales face-to-face. In many ways, the Internet is a whole new ball game, and while the idea is still to score, the rules and ballpark are definitely different. You can’t just throw up a webpage and expect to thrive—the dot-com bust proved that. After all, business is business, and successful business requires business savvy.

The South Transformed:
A Tale of Republicans’ Southern Ascendancy.
Between 1950 and 2000, the Republican Party’s representation from the South increased from only two House members and no senators to a majority of the South’s congressional delegations.

Rain or Shine
“Hot enough for you?” That’s the weather pleasantry we hear most often in Houston, but in other places you could substitute “cold” or “windy” or “wet” for the condition you’ve had enough of. No matter what it’s like outside, we all have an opinion on the weather, and while we may not always watch the news or sports, we invariably listen to what the weather forecaster has to say.

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