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updated: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:09 pm

Texas Government News

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3 hrs ago | Austin American Statesman

Texas 71 fuel spill cleanup goes on

One lane of Texas 71 West where a tanker flipped over Tuesday could remain closed today as cleanup continues.

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Sat Jul 05, 2008

Houston Chronicle

License to kill: Despite Joe Horn, Texans no safer

Clearing Joe Horn doesn't make law-abiding Texans any safer. Texas tradition and the letter of the law protected 61-year-old Joe Horn this week, when a grand jury declined to charge him for killing two ...

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Kerrville Daily Times

Too drunk to drive? Call for a free tow home

There's no excuse to drink and drive this Fourth of July holiday. Midway Wrecker Service will do the driving for you.

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Seguin Gazette-Enterprise

Locals react on death penalty ruling

Barely a year after Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law this state's version of "Jessica's Law" - last year's legislation that brought the death penalty into play for repeat child sexual predators - a Supreme ...

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Fri Jul 04, 2008

Austin American-Statesman

Mansion fire cleanup tedious; temporary roof still weeks off

Shoring up on first floor complete; crews now working to secure second floor. By Mike Ward AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, July 02, 2008 Constructing a temporary roof to protect the fire-gutted Texas ...

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A-Infos Radio Project

Radio Curious: To Kill or Not To Kill:

Notes: To Kill or Not To Kill: That is the question still presented to juries in capital cases in the United States, one of the few countries remaining in the world to employ the death penalty.

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WHBF-TV Rock Island

Culver Fights For Ethanol

Chet Culver is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request by the state of Texas to waive the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard, which helps to subsidize ethanol.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law, Texas

El Paso Times

Fewer traffic fatalities reported in Texas

Traffic deaths in Texas dropped in 2007 for the fifth consecutive year, despite an increase in the number of cars and drivers on state roadways, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

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Thu Jul 03, 2008

KIII

Gov. Perry Sets Nov. 4 Election for West Seat

Gov. Rick Perry has set a Nov. 4 special election to fill House District 81, vacated by the death of Rep.

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KSWO

Brazilian textiles company building plant in Texas

Governor Rick Perry says a Brazilian textiles company will open a denim manufacturing plant in Edinburg that will create 800 jobs.

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South Texas Chisme

4th indictment in TxDOT bribery scandal

A fourth man has been indicted in connection with a bribes-for-contracts scheme at the Texas Department of Transportation.

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Denton Record-Chronicle

Groups working to expand access to private insurance in Texas

Four public interest groups today unveiled a campaign to expand Texans' ability to buy private health insurance.

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Wed Jul 02, 2008

MySA.com

New textile plant will bring 800 jobs to the Valley

Flanked by Gov. Rick Perry and a host of other elected officials, leaders of a Brazilian denim manufacturer this morning announced plans for a Rio Grande Valley textile plant that will bring 800 jobs to the Rio ...

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Domestic Fuel

Poultry Company Behind Ethanol Waiver Request

An article in the Houston Chronicle this week traces Texas Governor Rick Perry's request for a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard back to a March 25 meeting with Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, owner of Pilgrim's ...

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Valley Morning Star

Man accused of lying to agents about TxDOT bribes

A fourth man has been indicted in connection with a bribes-for-contracts scheme at the Texas Department of Transportation, authorities said.

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Tue Jul 01, 2008

The Dallas Morning News

Supreme Court tosses out death penalty for child rapists

The U.S. Supreme Court continued to narrow the use of the death penalty Wednesday by declaring capital punishment for child rapists unconstitutional.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Violent Crime, Death Penalty, Texas

KRISTV.COM Corpus Christi

Report says official worried one trooper on guard

Several months before a fire nearly destroyed the Texas Governor's Mansion, the building administrator told security officials that one trooper might not be enough to guard the historic building during ...

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Star-telegram.com

Death penalty for child rape unconstitutional

By ANNA M. TINSLEY Part of Jessica's Law in Texas will be no more.All due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday in a Louisiana case striking down the death penalty for child rapists, when there is no ...

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PR-inside.com

Republican lawmakers want US ethanol requirements reduced

More than four dozen House Republicans asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reduce required ethanol production this year, saying renewable fuel standards enacted by Congress will boost already ...

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Related Topix: US News, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Science, Texas

Mon Jun 30, 2008

The Austin Chronicle

A Dose of Integrity for Texas Criminal Justice

In late April, during a Capitol press conference in advance of a daylong meeting of stakeholders cops, judges, lawmakers, professors of law, and exonerees for a forum on wrongful convictions, event organizer ...

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