Friday, October 9, 2015

The Veterans Crisis Line: Gun Safety

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

It's About Love

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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Road most traveled: Study advocates high-speed rail on Texas highways

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BY GORDON DICKSON - Nov. 23, 2013 - Fort Worth Star TeleGram gdickson@star-telegram.com     Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

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Texas Voter ID Law Ensnares Former Speaker of the House, Candidates for Governor, State Judge | Perspectives, What Matters Today | BillMoyers.com

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Texas Voter ID Law Ensnares Former Speaker of the House, Candidates for Governor, State Judge | Perspectives, What Matters Today | BillMoyer...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

First foreign-owned toll road in Texas downgraded to junk bond status

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By Terry Hall - TURF -  published in the Examiner,com October 19, 2013   Hate to say it, but we told you so. Texas’ first foreig...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

4 28 comments (1) By Randy Lee Loftis / Reporter rloftis@dallasnews.com 10:22 am on August 16, 2012 | Permalink The Obama administration’s only hearing on its proposal to give the cement industry more time to meet a looser clean-air standard is under way at Arlington City Hall. But the jury is already back with a verdict. The Environmental Protection Agency is getting shredded — literally. Some opponents of the move — that is, all but one of the speakers so far — are feeding EPA handouts into a shredder as they present their case. The four EPA officials running the hearing are hearing everything from quiet, compressed anger (“This is outrageous,” declared state Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth) to table-pounding and shouts. Jim Schermbeck, director of the North Texas environmental group Downwinders at Risk, said he was speaking in the place of group founder Sue Pope, who has campaigned to slash cement plant pollution for 20 years. Pope, he said, was too sick to appear. The debate isn’t really over EPA rules or industry rules, Schermbeck said, but whether the EPA was going to keep insulting people who have worked to protect public health. “These are Sue Pope’s rules that we are debating today,” he said, “and we shouldn’t be messing with them.” Following years of inaction, the EPA in 2010 moved ahead with rules to cut air pollution from cement-making plants. Midlothian has the nation’s biggest concentration of cement plants. People jammed a 2009 EPA hearing in Dallas to hail the move. But on June 22 this year, the Obama administration said it wanted to soften some requirements. One change would amend the way particulate matter — microscopic bits released from smokestacks — is counted. The effect would be to give plants more leeway, essentially boosting emissions compared to the 2010 rules. Another would give the industry two more years to comply. The deadline would move from September 2013 to September 2015. The EPA offered engineering explanations that closely mirrored the industry’s position. Gary Stuard of Dallas left no doubt about how that struck him. “People have been dying,” he told the EPA. “Doesn’t that mean anything to you?” There was one early voice for the industry. Andrew O’Hare, vice president of regulatory affairs for the Portland Cement Association, opened the hearing by endorsing the proposed changes. “New compliance strategies take time to implement,” he said. Time has been a major complaint of the opponents. The EPA gave the public just two weeks’ notice of Thursday’s hearing, which goes on until 7 p.m., and the deadline for written comment on the proposal is tomorrow. In a hurry to be heard? Read details and submit comments at www.regulations.gov. Enter doceket number EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0817. 4 28 More From Dallasnews.com Investigations Parkland launches recruitment campaign, calls special board meeting to discuss hospital's 'executive leadership' Entertainment Mario Tarradell: After naked DWI arrest, Randy Travis' career and credibility are all but dead Frisco Blog Frisco man indicted on capital murder charge after 22-month-old son's death The Scoop Blog Cleburne woman sues Cowboys, Jerry Jones, claiming hot bench outside stadium caused third-degree burns The Scoop Blog 4,000 without power in North Dallas after fire at electric substation From the web Autoblog BMW dealer sends armed tracker team with helicopter backup to recover loaner car StyleBistro Sandra Bullock As You've Never Seen Her Before Moneynews Billionaire Has Choice Words for Obama Left Lane News 2015 Ford Mustang to boast futuristic styling, updated suspension CafeMom Off-Duty Cop Crashes Motorcycle Into Little Girl Then Kills Her Enraged Dad What's this? 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By  By  Randy Lee Loftis / Reporter  - The Dallas Morning News - August 16, 2012 The Obama administration’s only hearing on its pro...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

New transportation bill must be Keystone-free

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May 11, 2012 -  Mid Columbia   Tri-City Herald ( McClatchy-Tribune News Service)   http://www.tri-cityherald.com/ 2012/05/11/1936585/new...
Friday, April 27, 2012

TxDOT's coming debt 'tsunami'

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Terri Hall- TURF - April 27, 2012 (Austin, TX) - We've seen it with AIG's toxic debt, then the banks with their financial crisis ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

How "Free Market" Roads can Restrict Freedom: The Mirage of Free-Market Roads

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By Martha Estes: March 29, 2012 An "amen chorus" to Timothy B. Lee's article in The Atlantic, The Mirage of Free-Market Roads...
Friday, December 16, 2011

What is Chesapeake doing at this Barnett Shale gas well in Arlington, Texas?

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What is Chesapeake doing at this Barnett Shale gas well in Arlington, Texas?
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Westchester Gasette: Dam and Double Dam!

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Westchester Gasette: Dam and Double Dam!

Westchester Gasette: Oh, My.

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Westchester Gasette: Oh, My. : So here's Part 2 of that story about  an Arlington Church's business deal with Chesapeake: Wednes...

Westchester Gasette: What the Quack is Going On?

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Westchester Gasette: What the Quack is Going On? : The 5,000-member High Point Church was founded in 2000 by Simons and his wife, April, wh...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires | Truthout

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Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires | Truthout