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With some Republicans still grumbling over a 2007 gubernatorial veto, several Texas GOP lawmakers have once again taken up the cause of changing current eminent domain practices.
State budget cuts are causing a correctional facility to close in one small Kansas town and taking 33 jobs and unpaid labor with it.
The grand project that would sell electricity generated by Texas Panhandle winds to the state's urban centers is one step closer to reality. The private firms Cross Texas Transmission and Sharyland Utilities will build lines in the southeastern and south central Panhandle.
Weddings can be a major expense, but is the economic downturn affecting wedding planning?
The Obama administration seems ready for the Environmental Protection Agency to allow states to toughen new-vehicle emissions standards. In Texas, Representative Mark Strama (D-Austin) and Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) are sponsoring bills similar to ones that fell flat in 2007. But in this year's session, the mood- both in Austin and D.C.- is different.
The Kansas Senate gave preliminary approval to a budget compromise
yesterday. It favors targeted cuts rather than across the board cuts.
Public school funding would be reduced by about three quarters of one
percent. A report on how cuts could affect K12 education.
In the Texas Panhandle, the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District may allow four counties- Dallam, Hartley, Moore and Sherman- to deplete the Ogallala Aquifer at a slightly higher rate than other Texas counties in the region.
Under its constitution, the state of Kansas cannot run a budget deficit, which it is facing for the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has submitted budget recommendations to the state legislature.
From today's public forum in Dumas to the coming weeks' action in Austin, the system for managing groundwater use in Texas continues to change.
The recession is leading to a lot of speculation on what it will affect next. How is farm credit doing in our area?
As Joe Straus assumes the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the shadow of Tom Craddick's legacy in that role lingers. Amarillo State Representative John Smithee and Texas Observer editor Dave Mann reflect on Craddick and the scope of the House Speaker's influence.
Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado has been selected to be the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. This past weekend Colorado Governor Bill Ritter picked Salazar's replacement for the Senate.
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