STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
Lyndell Williams outlines political maneuvering as state leaders debate attorney general prospects and campaign finance. David Herndon to be general counsel replacing Dean. Strake vows to spend as needed to defeat Hobby while Democrats seek a consensus candidate via a mini convention among Briscoe Peyton McKnight Bob Armstrong Mark White and Hill. Redistricting Board faces Oct 29 deadline with a first vote Oct 25 to resolve maps or hand to courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strake
David Herndon
Dean
Hobby
Bob Slagle
Slagle
Briscoe
Peyton Mc-Knight
Bob Armstrong
Mark White
Hill
Armstrong
McKnight
Clements
Senate redistricting plans and Capitol device debate
Hobby has completed a senate plan that avoids incumbents. House Speaker Clayton has multiple map options but no final version. Comptroller Bullock’s staff also have no final plan and Bullock returns Oct 23 to vote on the issue after alcoholism treatment in California. A pen register device draws civil liberties concern at the Capitol as the Legislature considers it in January 1983.
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Hobby
Senate
House
Bill Clayton
Bob Bullock
Bullock
California
Macho Bullock
Capitol
Texas to allow legal bingo in 1982 with licenses
State Comptroller Bob Bullock's office said legal bingo in Texas would not be possible before January 16, 1982. Local option elections can authorize bingo with licenses, a two percent gross receipts tax, and limits of three games per week and 500 dollars per game.
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Bob Bullock
Texas
George Garland
Comptrollers Office
Garland
Comptroller Office
Justice of the Peace
Comptroller’s Office
Solar and Thermal Energy Faces Troubled Future in U.S. Funding
Texas energy officials told the Solar Advisory Committee that federal funding for solar and thermal projects could drop to a third of the 1981 level, with DOE reduced to a sub-cabinet status and a shift toward funding only research. The report notes optimism about active and passive solar designs, central solar receivers, and 14 repowering designs, while outlining public information transfer plans and legislative updates on two passed bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solar Advisory Committee
Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Co
Gerald W. Braun
Solar Thermal Technology
U.S. Department of Energy
Braun
DOE
Texas Railroad Commission
Mack Wallace
Texas
Carol Tombari
Tenrac
John Carlson
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Lyndell Williams
Grandfalls Royalty School
Green
State Comptroller
Property Tax Board
Tecor
Shasta
Furre
Ramin
Siseihe
Peyton
Midgen Wee Inds
G& Wine
Cuces Oe
East Texas Finest
Washington Bartlett
Pork & Beans van Camp’s
Bumpkins
Rome
S Supreme Sizzlin
Hall
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