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growabrain (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Geostationary Banana Over Texas. an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings - - - - - - -
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Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst spoke to students at the University of Texas about energy and told them Texas does not really exist. But he then added more to the statement. "Texas doesn't actually exist," Dewhurst said. "It's a state of...
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Epicurious.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This American classic has the strongest ties to Texas, where it has been declared the Official State Dish!
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
ELDORADO, Texas - After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction...
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Texas Public Relations Association (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Get Connected personally, professionally and with your planet March 5, 2010 Hyatt Regency Downtown ~ Austin, Texas Texas PR Leadership Day and Gala is designed to bring together communications professional from every corner throughout the State of Texas. Working Agenda 8:00-9:00 am Registration/Light Breakfast 9:00-5:00 pm Communication Exhibition Area (to participate contact...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
State flags are flying at half mast and calls for blood donations have been posted , as Central Texans and residents all around the state of Texas and the nation are reeling in shock upon hearing the tragic news; 12 people were senselessly gunned down and at least 30 injured during a deadly rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, about an hour north of the state capital of Austin....
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
EFF points us to yet another massively expensive computer system that can't do some rather basic things. Apparently the state of Texas has pulled its election systems from an $863 million computer system project it had with IBM, after failures and glitches in the system took down the voter system and lost data, which was unrecoverable. State officials realized that if this had...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
At least seven people were killed and twelve were wounded in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in the U.S. state of Texas on Thursday, national media reports said.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
UCF: Living to fight another day AUSTIN, Texas — Let's get this out of the way right up front:
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The Lead (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Unless Governor Rick Perry changes his mind and either issues a stay or commutes the sentence, 32-year-old Khristian Oliver, will be executed by the State of Texas sometime this evening. Maybe by the time you read this....
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
EFF points us to yet another massively expensive computer system that can't do some rather basic things. Apparently the state of Texas has pulled its election systems from an $863 million computer system project it had with IBM, after failures and glitches in the system took down the voter system and lost data, which was unrecoverable. State officials realized that if this had...
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Culture (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... and Iād read this somewhere else, was that the population of the entire world could fit in the state of Texas ā and not just fit, but have a decent-sized house in which to live. Texas is 268,601 square miles ā or 7,488,166,118,400 square feet. If the is roughly 6,795,354,645 then each living person could be given around 1,000 square feet of land each. And if they were to build...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
At least 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in the U.S. state of Texas on Thursday, CNN reported
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The state of Texas has potentially great news for parents saving for their children's college education.State officials are prepared to undo a critical change in the rules governing the Texas Guaranteed Tuition Plan that's had many parents in an uproar.The Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board, which oversees the state's prepaid tuition plan, agreed...
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Philadelphia Freedom Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yesterday, the state of Texas executed convicted murderer Khristian Oliver. The case had gained some notoriety because the jurors had allegedly consulted the Bible to justify the death sentence. A passage that was allegedly read aloud by a juror: "And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." Case...