I started graduate school at the University of Iowa the fall semester of 1967. It was a heady experience to be in a program that, at the time, was 

jointly housed in both the GraduateSchool and the School of Medicine. It was shortly after the original Medicare and Medicaid laws were passed and being deployed throughout the land.

The Amarillo City Commission vote to make a deal with Coca-Cola at Tuesday’s meeting was a foregone conclusion. Anyone who thought the outcome would be different has been smoking, drinking, sniffing or chewing something that takes him higher than a Southwest Airlines flight 

George mug-colorto Dallas.

The vote sets up a deal to move the Coke business to property owned by the Amarillo Economic Development Corp. Coke will take over a facility formerly used by a wind energy firm that cratered; that’s after $4 million in local taxpayer money redevelops the plant for Coke. If AEDC head Buzz David is to be believed, Zargas’ exit from Amarillo cost taxpayers nothing. The firm made Amarillo taxpayers whole, he told the commissioners. With Coke moving out, the land south of City Hall will be home to the City Commission’s amateur version of the Field of Dreams.