Opponents challenge Texas GOP redistricting map in trial
In Austin a three judge panel hears challengers claim the Republican drawn map dilutes minority voting power under the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. State attorneys argue the plan boosts minority clout and Republican representation. testimony spans a week with appeals likely.
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GOP
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U.S. Supreme Court
Anthony Griffin
Griffin
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Dallas
Sheila Jackson-Lee
Houston
Jackson-Lee
Grifin
Mexico
Dallas- Fort Worth
Martin Frost
Nina Perales
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
American Gi Forum
Smaili
Peraies
League of United Latin American Citizens
Texas Naacp
TxDOT Santa DUI campaign rolls out holiday warnings
Texas Department of Transportation launches a holiday drunk driving campaign with Santa themed slogans. TV radio billboards and decals will air in English and Spanish across the state. The campaign features a cartoony Santa and the line He sees you when you're drinking. He knows when you're 08.
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Austin
Texas Department of Transportation
Santa Claus
Santa
Carlos Lopez
Txdot
Third bombing at U.S. base in Iraq wounds and kills
In Ramadi near Baghdad, a furniture truck bomb at Champion Base fatally wounded three Iraqis and injured 14 others. US forces reported one soldier killed and 14 wounded, with 11 treated and returned to duty. The attack follows two prior incidents this week near U.S. troops.
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Baghdad
Iraq
82Nd Airborne Division
Rasheed Hotel
Defense
Paul Wolfowitz
Champion Base
Ramadi
Bush defends Iraq reconstruction contracts policy
President Bush defends freezing opponents of the Iraq war from bidding on 18.6 billion in U.S. funded reconstruction contracts. Administration officials remain strategically vague on allowing foreign bidders if debt forgiveness is offered, with Russia insisting on no debt write offs.
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Iraq
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U.S
Baghdad
Russia
United Nations
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Dick Cheney
Houston
Kellogg, Rown & Root
Defense
Halliburton
Wendy Hall
United States
France
Germany
Canada
High school graduation rates highest in West and Midwest
Census data show Wyoming 90.2 percent and Utah 90.1 percent of adults 25 plus with high school diplomas. Minnesota Alaska Nebraska follow with 89 percent plus. Mississippi records the lowest at 75 percent, with Kentucky Louisiana Texas West Virginia among next lowest.
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Midwest
Wyoming
Utah
Minnesota
Alaska
Nebraska
Mark Mather
Population Reference Bureau
Mather
California
Texas
Alabama
Mark Drabenstott
Center For the Study of Rural America
Kansas City
Mississippi
Kentucky
Louisiana
West Virginia
Appalachia
Flu outbreak stretches across all states with deaths rising
Nation faces a severe flu season as 24 states report widespread transmission, 20 children die, and emergency rooms fill. Officials rush 100 000 doses of vaccine to curb shortages while 160 000 adult and 150 000 child doses are slated for shipment to states by January.
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Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
California
Health and Human Services
Tommy Thompson
Aventis
EPA Cleanups Set Billions Spent in 2003
Washington reports the EPA forced polluters to spend 2.9 billion on new controls and cleanups in 2003, about 25 percent less than 2002, amid claims the Bush administration slowed enforcement while EPA inspectors rose. EPA enforcement chief Suarez countered with higher inspections and noted 3.9 billion in orders for new controls and cleanups, with a 1.2 billion pollution settlement already recorded in the year starting Oct. 1.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Bush
Clinton
S. Jr. Suarez
EPA
The
Associated Press
Finley’s Polar Column Revels in Quirks and Cuisine
Jim Finley outlines personal tastes and fantasies from a Baytown context. He lists a perfect meal of salad, lobster, steak, and potatoes with Blue Bell, cites meeting Mrs. Claus, and recalls a date at a film called Summer of ’42. He notes Galveston as a favorite place outside Baytown and the North Pole.
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Pope John XXII
Baytown
North Pole
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