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Bulls, Steers and B.S.

Bulls, Steers and B.S.

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Dec 04, 2024
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For decades Big Bend freelance writer and full-time character Barry Scobee got paid by the published inch of type as a correspondent for the San Angelo Standard-Times.

Every night someone in the newsroom called him to see if anything of note had happened in Fort Davis. On one occasion when that caller was me, the 82-year-old’s phone rang so many times th…

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