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In my travels across East Texas I'm so happy to hear how so many of you wake up with Charlotte, Robert and me.

I've been here at KETK over three years now. My how time flies! Hope you'll continue to tune-in and share your morning's with us.

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TitleDate
East Texans Sound-Off on Spanking and If It Crosses the Line Into Physical AbuseOct 16 2009 - 8:20am
Do You Think Christians Have More of an Obligation to Help Illegal Immigrants?Oct 14 2009 - 6:35am
Do You Think The President Should Repeal the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Policy?Oct 13 2009 - 6:37am
Why Do You Think President Obama Received the Nobel Peace Award?Oct 12 2009 - 8:24am
Should Convicted Sex Offenders be Allowed to Attend a Church that Operates a Day Care?Oct 9 2009 - 6:40am
Do You Think One Single Cross in the Middle of the Mojave Desert Should be Removed?Oct 8 2009 - 8:31am
Should All Cell Phone Use be Banned Behind the Wheel?Oct 7 2009 - 6:30am
Do You Think Illegal Aliens Help or Hurt our Economy?Oct 6 2009 - 6:32am
Who Do You Blame America's Economic Crisis On?Oct 5 2009 - 7:59am
Has Rudeness in America Increased?Oct 2 2009 - 6:34am
Do you Agree with The Obama Administration's Idea of Longer School Years?Oct 1 2009 - 9:49am
Politics & The Pulpit: Should Preachers stick to the Gospel or be able to Talk Politics Too?Sep 30 2009 - 7:53am
Do you Think Illegal Aliens should be Allowed to purchase Health Insurance, even from the Government?Sep 29 2009 - 8:46am
Do You think There Has Been Too Much Media Hype about Swine Flu?Sep 28 2009 - 8:19am
Do You Think Public Schools Garner Too Much Blame for Bad Behavior and Poor Academics?Sep 25 2009 - 6:32am
Do You Think U.S. Troops Should be Pulled Out of Afghanistan?Sep 24 2009 - 6:32am
Authorities Across Texas Search for EscapeeSep 23 2009 - 6:38am
ATV Crash in Gregg County Proves FatalSep 22 2009 - 6:28am
Something Old is New Again at One East Texas SchoolSep 18 2009 - 6:28am
Kay Bailey Hutchison Talks TexasSep 17 2009 - 6:36am
Former Ice Cream Man in Jail on Child Sexual Abuse ChargesSep 16 2009 - 6:38am
What News Organization Do you Think is the Most Biased?Sep 15 2009 - 6:35am
Why Do You Think Church Attendance is Down?Sep 14 2009 - 6:29am
Why Are You Unhappy with President Obama's Performance So Far?Sep 10 2009 - 6:30am
Do You Think Too Much Money is Spent on ESL Classes in Texas Schools?Sep 9 2009 - 7:51am
Should Public Schools allow the President's Speech to be heard by Students?Sep 8 2009 - 8:05am
Republicans More Frustrated over Elected Party Officials than DemocratsSep 4 2009 - 6:31am
Do You Think Politicians Should be given More Power when it Comes to a Swine Flu Outbreak?Sep 3 2009 - 8:29am
Do You Agree with The State's New Law Enforcing Seat Belt Use for Everyone Inside your Vehicle?Sep 1 2009 - 7:42am
Do You Think Judges Should Have the Right to Ask Women of the Muslim Faith to Remove Scarves?Aug 28 2009 - 6:29am
Do You Think The Obama Administration's Investigation into CIA Interrogations of Suspected Terrorists is Warranted?Aug 27 2009 - 8:34am
Can Children be Too Young to Have A Cell Phone?Aug 26 2009 - 6:28am
What Would You Cut to Help Trim Budgets of Public Schools?Aug 25 2009 - 8:53am
What Do You Think Needs to Be Done to Save Social Security?Aug 24 2009 - 6:25am
What Do you Think about the Government's Cash For Clunkers Program?Aug 21 2009 - 7:52am
What Is A Conservative? Are You One?Aug 20 2009 - 8:45am
Why Do You Believe in God?Aug 19 2009 - 7:56am
Do You Think there Should Be Term Limits for Elected Officials?Aug 18 2009 - 8:43am
Do You Agree with the APA Decision Saying Homosexuality is Not Abnormal?Aug 17 2009 - 7:59am
What Would You Do to Fix the Economy?Aug 14 2009 - 10:53am
Can You Name Any Current Politician You can Trust?Aug 13 2009 - 6:36am
Do Mainstream Media Outlets Too Often Report on Global Warming or Climate Change?Aug 12 2009 - 9:04am
With Divorce Rates Climbing, Is Getting Married at an Earlier Age the Solution?Aug 11 2009 - 6:14am
Should "Eye Witnesses" in Trials where People are Wrongly Imprisoned Be Held Criminally Liable?Aug 10 2009 - 6:38am
Do You Think Republican Politicians who admit to Sexual Misconduct be held to A Higher Standard?Jul 31 2009 - 6:30am
Do You Think Atheists Should be Able to Advertise on Public Transportation?Jul 30 2009 - 6:29am
Should Mothers who Kill their Children be Held to the same Legal Standards as anyone Else?Jul 29 2009 - 6:30am
Should Public Schools Operate Clinics where Students can Receive STD and Pregnancy Testing?Jul 28 2009 - 6:25am
Should Local Authorities be Able to Arrest People who don't Obey Mandatory Evacuation Orders?Jul 27 2009 - 6:29am
Do You think President Obama was Wrong in Commenting on the Arrest of a Black Professor in Cambridge?Jul 24 2009 - 6:27am
Do You Think Law Enforcement Should be forced to Cover Up Tattoos?Jul 23 2009 - 6:29am
Do You Agree with the Government's Plan on Increasing the Minimum Wage? Should there Even be a Minimum Wage?Jul 22 2009 - 6:29am
Does the United States Owe Countries around The World Any Apologies?Jul 20 2009 - 6:35am
Do You Think Health Care Should be a Basic Right for Everyone in this Country?Jul 16 2009 - 7:52am
Do People Judge Legal Issues Differently Based upon Their Own Culture, Life Experiences and Race?Jul 15 2009 - 6:32am
Do You Think the Government Really wants to Stop Illegal Immigration?Jul 14 2009 - 8:08am
If You Could Vote for President Today, Would you Still Vote for Barack Obama?Jul 13 2009 - 6:27am
Do You Agree with Texas Public Schools Dropping Health Education Classes?Jul 10 2009 - 6:35am
Do You Think the U.S. House Should Pass a Resolution Honoring Michael Jackson?Jul 9 2009 - 6:29am
Do You Think it is Immoral for Christian Preachers to Make Excessive Salaries?Jul 8 2009 - 6:32am
Do You Think Texas Prisons Should be Air Conditioned?Jul 7 2009 - 6:33am
Who is Responsible for A Prescription Drug Overdose? The Victim or the Physician who Prescribes Them?Jul 6 2009 - 6:31am
How do You think Employers Should be Prosecuted for Hiring Illegal Aliens?Jul 2 2009 - 6:41am
A New Poll Shows Americans think The Democrat Party is too LiberalJul 1 2009 - 6:29am
Do You Think Reverse Discrimination is A Problem in this Country?Jun 30 2009 - 6:31am
East Texans Comment on the Death of The King of Pop: Michael JacksonJun 26 2009 - 6:33am
Should Politicians Caught in Affairs be Required to Step-Down from Office?Jun 25 2009 - 6:35am
Winona Question of Alcohol Sales Continues to Spark DebateJun 19 2009 - 8:02am
Surprising Numbers from a Gallup Poll Show the Majority of Women say they're DemocratJun 18 2009 - 6:34am
Do you think Medical Malpractice Lawsuits should have a Ceiling on How Much Should be Paid-Out?Jun 17 2009 - 6:40am
A Fatal Mauling of a Little Boy in Leverett's Chapel Prompts the Question of Banning Pit BullsJun 16 2009 - 6:40am
Do You think The Growing Diversity in America is Good?Jun 15 2009 - 7:39am
Granny Gets Tased! Was The Constable Correct in Using Non-Lethal Force on 72 Year Old?Jun 12 2009 - 6:36am
Which Party Do East Texans Think Handles Taxpayer Dollars Best?Jun 11 2009 - 6:10am
East Texans Sound-Off on Washington's Proposed "Cash For Clunkers" ProgramJun 10 2009 - 6:30am
"Don't Ask - Don't Tell" Policy Comes Up before Court and East Texans Sound-Off.Jun 9 2009 - 6:33am
Is there Common Ground in the World's Three Major Religions?Jun 8 2009 - 6:40am
Is a Separate Palestinian State the Answer to Peace in the Middle East?Jun 5 2009 - 6:23am
Box Office PreviewJun 4 2009 - 6:39am
Would you Change your Stance on Gay Marriage if You Knew Somone who was Gay?Jun 3 2009 - 6:23am
Who Is Responsible for General Motors Fall?Jun 2 2009 - 6:32am
Prison Time for Dallas Area Man with HIV.Jun 1 2009 - 6:30am
Could Compensation for Texas Inmates Wrongly Accused of a Crime Ever Be Too Much?May 28 2009 - 6:30am
Sexting: A Teen Trend KETK Viewers Speak-Out on and How Teens Should be Penalized.May 27 2009 - 6:40am
How should Government Cut Costs on Federal Level to save Taxpayer DollarsMay 26 2009 - 8:08am
Is Colin Powell A Republican? He says he is a Moderate Republican. East Texans Sound-Off.May 25 2009 - 6:32am
East Texans Sound-Off on the Issue of Waterboarding as Torture or Interrogation TacticMay 22 2009 - 6:56am
Should The Government be Able to take Children from Parents who Refuse Medical Care?May 21 2009 - 6:32am
Should Bible Verses be Allowed on Government Documents?May 20 2009 - 6:40am
An East Texas Death Penalty Case draws Comments from KETK ViewersMay 19 2009 - 6:44am
What Direction should the Republican Party Take? Social or Economic Issues? East Texans RespondMay 18 2009 - 8:05am
KETK Viewers Talk Back to KTBB's Garth Maier about a Possible Tax on SodasMay 15 2009 - 6:30am
East Texans Sound-Off on President Obama's Decision to Not Release Interrogation PhotosMay 14 2009 - 6:32am
Texas Legislators looking at Statewide Smoking Ban: KETK Viewers RespondMay 13 2009 - 6:33am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Tuesday, May 12thMay 12 2009 - 6:33am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Monday, May 11thMay 11 2009 - 6:33am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Friday, May 8thMay 8 2009 - 6:33am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, May 7thMay 7 2009 - 6:32am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Wednesday, May 6thMay 6 2009 - 6:11am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Monday, May 4thMay 4 2009 - 6:32am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, April 30thApr 30 2009 - 6:22am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Tuesday, April 28thApr 28 2009 - 6:29am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Monday, April 27thApr 27 2009 - 6:33am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Friday, April 24thApr 24 2009 - 6:42am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, April 23rdApr 23 2009 - 6:34am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Wednesday, April 22ndApr 22 2009 - 6:34am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Tuesday, April 21stApr 21 2009 - 6:35am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Monday, April 20thApr 20 2009 - 6:34am
Should concealed handguns be allowed on college campuses?Apr 17 2009 - 6:31am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, April 16thApr 16 2009 - 6:32am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Wednesday, April 15thApr 15 2009 - 6:39am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Tuesday, April 14thApr 14 2009 - 6:41am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Monday, April 13thApr 13 2009 - 6:32am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Friday, April 10thApr 10 2009 - 7:31am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, April 9thApr 9 2009 - 6:35am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Friday, April 3rdApr 3 2009 - 6:56am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, April 2ndApr 2 2009 - 6:22am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Wednesday, April 1st.Apr 1 2009 - 6:40am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Tuesday, March 31stMar 31 2009 - 6:23am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Friday, March 27thMar 27 2009 - 6:22am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, March 26thMar 26 2009 - 6:32am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Wednesday, March 25thMar 25 2009 - 6:34am
KTBB's Question of the Day for Tuesday March 24thMar 24 2009 - 6:31am
KTBB's Question of the DayMar 23 2009 - 6:39am
Too Many Doughnuts and Too Few Jumping Jacks?Mar 20 2009 - 6:39am
KTBB's Question of the DayMar 19 2009 - 6:46am
Navy Recruiter will Do Time for Fatal CrashMar 18 2009 - 6:40am
Retailers in Mexican Border Towns Hurting for BusinessMar 16 2009 - 6:43am
Arrest Made in Rusk County ShootingsMar 13 2009 - 6:45am
Armed Bandits target Nacogdoches NeighborhoodsMar 11 2009 - 8:42am
Texas Agriculture still hurting from IkeMar 9 2009 - 6:40am
Pizza Delivery Driver assaulted and robbed in TylerMar 6 2009 - 7:39am
Dry Conditions Sparking more Grass FiresMar 4 2009 - 8:23am
Longview Teen charged with RobberyMar 3 2009 - 9:08am
Fire on Cochran Street in Tyler destroys Vacant HouseFeb 27 2009 - 7:39am
Biker Injured in South Tyler CrashFeb 26 2009 - 9:53am
East Texas Congressman comment on President Obama's SpeechFeb 25 2009 - 7:37am
Federal Judge in Houston retires after Plea DealFeb 24 2009 - 7:40am
Deputies Investigate Trinidad KillingFeb 20 2009 - 7:43am
East Texans want to know: What's up with Government officials and their Back Taxes?Feb 19 2009 - 7:43am
More trails on tap for Rose CityFeb 18 2009 - 7:42am
Double Homicide then Suicide in Angelina CountyFeb 16 2009 - 7:40am
Nacogdoches Man in Jail after chase through Two CountiesFeb 12 2009 - 8:57am
East Texas Legislator wants bulletproof glass in Trooper's Patrol CarsFeb 11 2009 - 7:40am
Texas Legislator wants liquor sales on SundayFeb 10 2009 - 7:44am
Getting Marriages "Back in the Saddle"Feb 9 2009 - 7:43am
Clemsa Mill shutting downFeb 4 2009 - 7:41am
TP&W Considering new regulations on Whitetail DeerFeb 3 2009 - 9:34am
Dallas-Fort Worth area Prepared for more IceJan 28 2009 - 7:21am
Paws-itive Hearts: Canine help for Troubled KidsJan 26 2009 - 9:11am
Fire Damages Kilgore restaurantJan 23 2009 - 8:53am
Gilmer Pharmacy targeted by ThievesJan 22 2009 - 9:07am
State Budget in the RedJan 21 2009 - 7:41am
Winds fuel grass fire in Cherokee CountyJan 20 2009 - 7:42am
Sunday Fire at TJC DormJan 19 2009 - 9:14am
Perryman issues Tyler's Economic ForecastJan 16 2009 - 7:17am
Skeletal remains Discovered in Upshur CountyJan 15 2009 - 8:57am
State Comptroller predicts Bad Jobs picture for TexasJan 14 2009 - 9:05am
Smith County Fatal CrashJan 13 2009 - 7:29am
FUEL PRICES GOING UPJan 12 2009 - 9:03am
Gas Prices: Going Up!Jan 8 2009 - 8:15am
Perry visits troops in IraqJan 7 2009 - 7:44am
Craddick will not seek 4th term as SpeakerJan 5 2009 - 7:59am
Donnybrook CrashJan 1 2009 - 7:49am
Opposition to Craddick GrowsDec 31 2008 - 7:40am
Counterfeiting UpDec 30 2008 - 9:27am
Delmar House FireDec 26 2008 - 7:41am
Bus Crash SettlementDec 19 2008 - 10:28am
Gas Prices Lowest since '04Dec 17 2008 - 10:36am
Food Bank DonationDec 16 2008 - 8:18am
Perry LetterDec 11 2008 - 8:14am
Crack BustDec 10 2008 - 7:49am
Mankins back in courtNov 7 2008 - 2:14pm
  • March 13, 2009 - 7:26am

    From Longview, take Highway 259 North.
    To Diana. Then right (east) on highway 154.
    You'll travel through Harleton. Eight miles east of Harleton you'll see Fuglers on the right.

    Eats Texas: Fugler's Store
  • March 13, 2009 - 7:23am

    From Longview, travel Hwy. 300 north toward Gilmer and turn left on FM 1844. Continue 3.2 miles to Turkey Road (look for the Historical Marker sign). Turn left on Turkey Road and you've reached Sacred Spur Ranch.

    "Eats Texas": The Sacred Spur Ranch