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TexasLiberal (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Below you see a marker where the Balinese Room once was on Galveston’s Seawall. The marker says that this location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Interior Department. While this may well indeed be the case, it is also so that Hurricane Ike washed the Balinese Room away in 2008. This [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The hot pie caused first- and second-degree burns and required medical treatment for the female victim, sheriff's spokesman Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said.
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Sales contracts for the first 23 beach-front properties whose owners completed buyout agreements with the city show wide disparities between the values set by private appraisers and those listed by the Galveston Central Appraisal District. On average, the city paid 89 percent more for the houses damaged by Hurricane Ike than the appraisal district said they were worth before the storm. On average....
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The biggest increase from last week was a nickel a gallon to $2.52 in Amarillo.
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
[Ron Paul's] speech, delivered Saturday at the Galveston Country Club, included a message about keeping the federal government out of the pocketbooks of ordinary folks. What’s ironic is that West Ender residents had lobbied relentlessly — and successfully — for what has to be the most breathtaking entitlement program approved in response to Hurricane Ike. The federal Hazard...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Gov. Jim Doyle has signed a bill that makes Juneteenth Day a legal holiday in Wisconsin. Juneteenth Day events are held in communities around the country to commemorate June 19, 1865, the day when Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, to announce the Civil War was over and that slaves were free. Doyle signed the measure in Milwaukee, which has celebrated Juneteenth Day...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Houston Chronicle: Lessons from a quiet storm season The 2009 hurricane season officially ends today with just nine named storms having developed in the Atlantic basin, a nice break after the disastrous 2008 season that sent Hurricane Ike barreling into Galveston Island. Here are four things we know after six months of tracking the tropics, and one thing we don’t. What we know...
The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) -- A pecan pie fight on Thanksgiving led to a woman suffering burns and her brother facing assault allegations.Galveston County sheriff's Capt. Barry Cook says the 23-year-old woman suffered first- and second-degree burns to he ...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pitching decks in rough seas, getting along with macho fishing crews and sometimes spending weeks at sea working 10-hour days are part of the job for Andria Schurman, an observer for the National Marine Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory.
Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | yesterday
... TEXAS to see what you're breathing. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why some destroyed Galveston beach houses were paid out at prices nearly double their county appraised value. BossKitty at TruthHugger is fed up with Road Rage and wants it taken a more seriously by the authorities. Road Rage is indeed vehicular terrorism! Vehicular terrorism is dismissed by the court system as...
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... TEXAS to see what you're breathing. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why some destroyed Galveston beach houses were paid out at prices nearly double their county appraised value. BossKitty at TruthHugger is fed up with Road Rage and wants it taken a more seriously by the authorities. Road Rage is indeed vehicular terrorism! Vehicular terrorism is dismissed by the court system as...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Daniel DiNardo, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, dismissed the argument that the bishops' efforts to exclude abortion from the health plan have crossed the line to improper lobbying.
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... TEXAS to see what you’re breathing. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why some destroyed Galveston beach houses were paid out at prices nearly double their county appraised value. BossKitty at TruthHugger is fed up with Road Rage and wants it taken a more seriously by the authorities. Road Rage is indeed vehicular terrorism! Vehicular terrorism is dismissed by the court system as...
Newsome.Org (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... for that, I joined the National Sporting Clays Association . Raina and the kids went to Galveston this morning with her parents. After shooting, I had a sushi lunch at Osaka . Now its off to do some chores.
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
The archbishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, a leader of the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion, has lashed out at criticism of the role bishops have played in influencing the health care debate in Congress. In an interview last week, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo dismissed the argument that the bishops’ efforts to exclude abortion from the proposed health plan, including...
