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Texas Teachers Volunteer To 'Launch' Students To Success

Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Afterschool Program, Tutoring, Homework, Education, Volunteering, Texas, Teachers, Students, Impact News

A middle school in Lake Jackson, Texas, is providing a launching pad to success for its students through a grassroots afterschool program, reports The...

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Laura Bush Opens Up (VIDEO): 'There's Great Relief ... When You Leave The White House'

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Texas, Laura Bush Memoir, Laura Bush, Laura Bush Life, Dallas Performing Arts Center, Dallas, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News

How is life these days for Laura Bush? "Freedom," "relief," and "relaxed" were a few of the words Bush used to describe it in her interview with CBS'...

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Man Distracted By Bird Drives Bugatti Into Marsh

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Bugatti Crash, Bugatti, Texas, Bugatti Marsh, Home News

LA MARQUE, Texas — A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into ...

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Alimony Reform

Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Texas, Personal Responsibility, Alimony, Marriage, Welfare, Family Law, Standard of Living, Spousal-Support, Living News

While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.

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14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Slidehuge, Wages, Economy, Employment, Slidepoll, Jobs, Job Growth, Recession, Austin Texas, Texas, Unemployment, Salary, Economic Growth, Technology, North Carolina, Business News

Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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The Best Biscuits in Brooklyn

Ed Levine | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Restaurants, New York, Texas, Southern-Food, Joaquin Baca, Restaurant Reviews, Brooklyn Star, New York News

Serious New York eaters like me tend to romanticize the biscuits we find ourselves eating here, so we overstate their deliciousness, but Brooklyn Star's biscuits are the real deal.

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Tagged.com Settles With New York, Texas Over Invite Fight

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Marketing, Texas, Andrew Cuomo, Invitation Emails, Social Networking, Tagged.com Identity Theft, tagged.com, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — The social networking Web site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially ste...

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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The Unemployment Extension Depends Just as Much on the States as on the White House

David Adkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: State Government, Virginia, Texas, Unemployment, Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, Unemployment Extension, Business News

Despite encouraging signs of growth in the economy the unemployment crisis is going to be with us for a long time to come. It has left states caught in a vice between plummeting revenues and rising needs.

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Raymond Jessop, Texas Polygamist Sect Member, Guilty Of Sex Assault

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Raymond Jessop, Texas Polygamist Sect, Polygamy, Texas, Polygamists, Home News

ELDORADO, Texas — The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texa...

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Black Ops and Fort Hood

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Malik Hassan, Fort Hood Shooter, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Texas, Virginia Tech, Arabic, Alyssa Peterson, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

There are lots of places to start looking if we want clues as to what happened at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. One obvious clue is Virginia Tech....

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Jerry Falwell, Council for National Policy, Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Willis, Media, Michelle Bachman, Austin American Statesman, Rambo, Dixie Chicks, Forum on the Family, Nra, Phyllis Schlafly, Matthew Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, James Dobson, Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Austin, Barry Levinson, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Discovery Institute, Poliwood, Ed Meese, Creative Coalition, Barbra Streisand, Texas, Edwin Meese, Hollywood, Left Behind Books, Tim LaHay, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Left Behind, George Gilder, Miranda Ruling, Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Chuck Norris, Charlton Heston, New York Times, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Perkins, Politics News

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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Robert Bruce, Suspected "Ether Man" Serial Rapist In Colorado Jail

AP | HEATHER CLARK | Posted 11.03.2009 | Denver

Read More: Pueblo, Texas, Rapist, Robert Bruce, New Mexico, Ether Man, Colorado, Robert Howard Bruce, Ether Rapist, Howard Bruce, Robert Bruce Rape, Robert Bruce Rapist, Ether Man Arrested, Denver News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Authorities say a man arrested in Colorado is suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas over 15 years, and recent...

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Governor Rick Perry and His Texas Death Machine Are In Big Trouble

David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.

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Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You

Bill Moyers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Lbj, William Justice, Segregation, East Texas, Molly Ivins, William Wayne Justice, Justice Justice, Rick Perry, Politics News

While so many Texans have fought and are fighting the good fight in the Judge William Wayne Justice tradition, others believe in the law only when it sides with them.

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Pankaj Joshi, Store Clerk, Accused Of Stealing $1M Lottery Prize From Customer

AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Mega Millions, Lottery, Pankaj Joshi, Crime, Nepal, University of Texas Student, Lucky's Food Store, Austin, Texas Lottery Commission, $1 Million Lottery Prize, Lotto, Store Clerk, Willis Willis, Home News

AUSTIN, Texas — A 25-year-old convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped tow...

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Obama, Bush Sr Urge Community Service

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Texas, Volunteering, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Points of Light Institute, United We Serve, Points of Light, Public Service, Impact News

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Calling public service "the essence of our liberty," President Barack Obama on Friday urged Americans to step up and vo...

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Gov. Rick Perry: Cameron Todd Willingham "Was A Monster"

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Arson Review Panel Texas, Cameron Todd Willingham, Gov Perry's Aides, Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?, Willingham, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Gov Rick Perry, Sam Bassett Arson Review Panel, Sam Bassett, Cameron Todd Willingham Innocent, Rick Perry, Politics News

Texas Governor Rick Perry insisted again on Wednesday that the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham was appropriate and that Texas did not, contrary t...

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Tim Cole Panel Begins Study Texas Wrongful Convictions

John Terzano | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Texas, The Justice Project, Timothy Cole, Criminal Justice Reform, Rick Perry, Politics News

Of the more than 40 people exonerated by DNA in Texas, one of the most heartbreaking cases is that of Timothy Cole, whose exoneration came too late. In 1999, he died in prison of asthma.

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Police: Man Found Asleep In Closet With A Dead Man

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Texas, Dead Body, Houston, Crime, Corpse, Closet, Abuse of Corpse, Drugs, Home News

HOUSTON — A Houston man found asleep with a corpse inside a closet of a vacant home has been charged with misdemeanor drug offenses, authorities...

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Something You Should Know About Profits, Vaccines and Tort Reform

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Fast-Trak, Monoclonal Antibodies, Gulf War, Elusys, Tort Reform, Fda, Swine Flu, Mederex Soldiers, Texas, Tamiflu, Anthrax, Sudovar, Sibelius, John Deutschhuman Testing, Relenza, Vaccines, Business News

More research needs to be done on the companies supplying the vaccines for the troops. They and their well-connected investors are subsidized by the government, which supplies troops for human testing.

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Texas Cannot Wait for Good Science in the Courtroom

John Terzano | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Texas, The Justice Project, Forensic Science, Rick Perry, Politics News

The Texas Forensic Science Commission controversy is ultimately not about politics or the death penalty. At stake is the integrity of scientific evidence in Texas courtrooms, and the erosion of public confidence.

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Nukes Mess With Texas

Carl Pope | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Texas, Harold Simmons, Nuclear Waste, Ogallala Aquifer, Nuclear Power, Glenn Shankle, Ogallala, Green News

Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons wants to make Texas the dumping ground for as much of America's nuclear waste as he can.

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Charlie Wilson: I'd Probably Shut Down The War In Afghanistan

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Texas, u.s. Foreign Policy, Charlie Wilson, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Wars, President Obama, Charlie Wilson's War, u.s. Wars, Charlie Wilson Afghanistan, Afghanistan-Soviet War, World News

Charlie Wilson, the former Democratic representative from Texas and the inspiration for the movie (and book) Charlie Wilson's War sat down with the Sc...

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