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Texas Tackles Key Regulatory Barriers To Cogeneration
Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law today two bills promoting deployment of cogeneration in Texas. Cogeneration, or combined heat and power, is refers to a suite of technologies designed to produce electricity and useful thermal energy in a single process. "[T]hese policy changes will be effective to help Texas meet resource adequacy challenges and provide secure energy to critical ...
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Texas Megachurch Pastor Asks Congregation to Sow $52 Favor Seeds to Upgrade Helicopter Blades
A Texas megachurch pastor, whose 'Aviation Department' advised him that upgrading the blades on his helicopter would save his church $50,000, recenlty caused an uproar for asking his congregation to help finance the upgrade with $52 'favor ...
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T Magazine On View | An All-American Roadside Attraction in West Texas
Over the next few months, motorists speeding through the West Texas desert on Highway 90, just outside the arts town of Marfa, will encounter an unexpected roadside attraction: a white neon Playboy logo hovering above a matte-black 1972 Dodge Charger perched at an 18-degree angle atop a concrete plinth. Playboy Marfa, as it’s being called, is the first in a series of art projects ...
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BSA appeals Texas order to turn over abuse files
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America is asking the Texas Supreme Court to review an order requiring it to turn over years of so-called perversion files in a child abuse ...
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Drop In Dallas Latino Representation Highlights Voter Turnout Problem
The Latino community saw its representation decline in the city of Dallas this weekend for the second time this year, where a local race left the city council with just two Hispanic members. That wasn't supposed to ...
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Ala teen charged in case of baby found in Texas
Authorities have located a missing 10-month-old Alabama boy in Texas with the 14-year-old girl who allegedly took him from a home in ...
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Optimistic Texas Shoplifter Steals Penis Enlargement Pills And Of Course Oversize Magnum Condoms
An optimistic shoplifter who swiped "male enhancement" pills from a 7-Eleven in Texas also made sure to steal a box of jumbo-sized condoms, police report. The unknown perpetrator walked out of the Dallas business early Sunday morning with a $31.14 package of ExtenZe, the purported penis enlargement supplement, and Magnum condoms valued at $19.16, according to ...
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Texas Advances Sweeping Anti-Choice Bill That Will Force Most Abortion Clinics To Close
approved SB 5 , a measure that would tighten restrictions on abortion clinics, late on Tuesday night. The legislation now heads to the GOP-dominated House. If SB 5 becomes law, the vast majority of the abortion clinics in the Lone Star state will be forced to close their doors. Texas’ legislative session is actually already over. But lawmakers are currently considering SB 5 because Gov. ...
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Judge to hear new evidence in school finance case
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The judge in Texas' sweeping school finance case says he will hear new evidence based on the Legislature's recent restoring of about $3.4 billion in funding to ...
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Unemployed Texas teacher returns lost bag containing $20G
An unemployed teacher was driving home after dropping her cat off at a veterinarian when she noticed a bag on the street. She stopped but doubted it contained anything, but soon discovered the bag was holding about $20,000. Candace Scott said the bag had a Chase bank label, so she promptly delivered it to a nearby branch. She pound on the glass around 8 a.m. Tuesday to get the branch manager to ...
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Fitch Confirms S-T F1 Rating on Texas Veterans Bonds Taxable Refunding Series 2010B
Money Market Funds Explore Callable Commercial Paper in Value Search Money market funds (MMFs) are slowly increasing exposure to a relatively new short-term instrument - callable commercial paper (CP), according to Fitch Ratings. MMFs are exploring callable CP as a way to add additional yield and diversification to portfolios, as well as in response to banks' reduced appetite for providing ...
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Car driver cited in deadly biker wreck
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The driver of a car involved in a deadly motorcycle wreck received a citation for failing to yield the right of way. The wreck happened early Tuesday on a rain-slicked Guadalupe Street, killing a 59-year-old man. Police said a black 2012 Honda Accord was heading south in the 3900 block of Guadalupe Street just after 6 a.m. when the biker on a 2009 Honda Shadow motorcycle, ...
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Tragedy strikes again for family
AUSTIN (KXAN) - For the second time in a matter of weeks, tragedy struck the same family. Jack Brown Henry, 59, died after crashing his motorcycle into a car early Tuesday on a rain-slicked Guadalupe Street. The driver of a car involved in the deadly wreck received a citation for failing to yield the right of way. Henry is the father of Alex Henry-Ballew , an 18-year-old who died after falling ...
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Texas Windstorm Insurance Group Expects Surplus
The nonprofit, state-supervised property insurance agency for coastal Texas counties is expected to shore up its finances by the end of the year, the group told a state House panel on June 17. Pete Gise, who handles the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s finances, said that after being in debt since 2012, the association projects it will see its first surplus by the end of the year. ...
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Corpus Christi police Man arrested after alcohol marijuana and gun found in car.
Corpus Christi police arrested a 19-year-old man who had marijuana, alcohol and a gun in his car Tuesday night, police said in a news release. Police said they pulled over a black 2007 Chevrolet Impala in the 1000 block of National Drive before 11 p.m. for a traffic violation. When the officer was speaking with the man, the officer saw a scale beneath the driver's feet. After a search ...
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Minor improvements in drought across Texas
60 percent of the state remains in severe or worse drought conditions as of Wednesday, officials said. 60 percent of the state remains in severe or worse drought ...
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Decherd to retire from Dallas-based AH Belo
DALLAS -; The CEO of Dallas-based A.H. Belo (BEE'-loh) Corporation plans to retire in September and will become vice chairman of the board of ...
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Texas Senate passes tougher abortion clinic rules
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com AUSTIN With a week left in the special session, partisan discord erupted in the Texas Legislature after Senate passage of legislation toughening regulations on abortion ...
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The Supreme Courts Decision In Salinas v. Texas Implications For White Collar Investigations
U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At the outset of a white collar investigation, counsel will invariably advise the client that if a government investigator unexpectedly appears seeking to "just ask a few questions," the client should politely decline and direct the investigator to counsel. Although the Supreme Court's decision this past Monday, June 17, ...
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Will Summer Blackouts Doom The Texas Boom
NRG's Green Mountain Energy wind farm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Texas has been an economic powerhouse in recent years. Gross domestic product in the Lone Star State, which hit $1.2 trillion before the recession, is ...
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Dallas New Vietnamese Spot Mot Hai Ba Will Challenge Your Views
It was wildly unexpected when Colleen O'Hare and Jeana Johnson announced their latest restaurant. They'd already successfully tackled tacos more suited for gringos than for those raised on the streets of Mexico City. Authenticity be damned - those tacos were delicious, and Good 2 Go quickly became an East Dallas fixture. But when two women from Texas decided to undertake the complex ...
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If Only the Monsters University Writers Had Taken a Quick Sendak Seminar
Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom look like gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar's junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-screams from human kids, a premise rich enough for Seuss or Borges. Is it too much to ask, then, that a ...
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The War at Home
Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and wondering how the hell you're going to fit them together. In Marc Forster's World War Z, the world as we know it is destroyed by a virus that turns people into zombies. Brad Pitt plays a New York City family man - a UN peacekeeper turned ...
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Who Needs Superman In Traces Humans Fly without Special Effects.
Traces lets you marvel at the wonders of the human body while making you feel bad about your own. Seven gorgeous young performers in a 90-minute whirl of acrobatics, dance and borderline insanity fly off the floor and hang in mid-air longer than logic and the laws of gravity say they should. They leap, tumble, scuttle up poles and heave themselves at each other like flying squirrels. Balancing ...
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Trouble in River City in Lyric Stage’s Vanilla Music Man
Meredith Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man, now at Irving's Lyric Stage, feels as summery as an ice cream social. If only this production came in more flavors than vanilla. The quaint ode to small-town life circa 1912 falls flat if its angelic Iowans aren't threatened with perdition by a devilish Harold Hill. Flim-flammer Hill hops off a train in River City to sell instruments ...
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Texas sees important new realty development
Natural Development LCC is a local real estate company in Texas that has bought over 400 acres of land adjacent to Onion Creek and the Colorado River and between the Texas 130 and Texas 71 with plans to turn it into a small town with over 1000 homes and business and thousands of residents.
Natural Development LLC is an Austin-based developer with big plans for Watersedge, the unlikely name of the high-class community to be created on the Greenfield site near the Texas 71 and Texas 130. Read more
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