Stephen Head, president of Lone Star College-North Harris, asked me not long ago what the sparrow-size, aqua-blue birds were that had shown up in his yard. He wasn't the only one who wanted to know.

For many farms in Tennessee, tobacco is still the biggest cash crop in the field. It’s been that way for generations. But farmers are looking for alternatives that aren’t quite so difficult to grow, ...

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Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the ...