Spaceport one step closer to reality
Fort Stockton prepares for launch tests as JP Aerospace signs first contract with Pecos County Spaceport Development Corp for temporary staging at Pecos County Airport. The California firm will pay 76000 for a staging area to launch three balloons and one unmanned rocket to the edge of space on Oct 5 and 6, marking a 3 1/2 year effort to attract aerospace business to the area.
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Fort Stockton
West Texas
Pecos County
JP Aerospace
SDC
Doug May
Texas
Michael Jackson
State Senate
Norman Brock
John Powell
California
Powell
Odessa College cartwheel-a-thon supports children’s hospital
Odessa College hosts a cartwheel-a-thon on Saturday as part of the National Gymnastics Day events to raise funds for the Children’s Miracle Network. OC coach Jean Hollowell says the day showcases gymnastics and encourages kids to help hospitalized children, with demonstrations and various apparatus and floor routines.
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Mieash Tripp
Odessa College
Children’s Miracle Network
Jean Hollowell
Hollowell
FBI raids Heart Place and Heart Center hospitals
FBI agents and Texas Medicaid Fraud Unit officers searched Heart Place Hospital and Heart Center in Midland, seizing documents from about 6:15 a.m. The court order restricted details while officials said the raid could last for some time and involved multiple carloads of records.
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Midland
FBI
Texas Attorney General
Heart Place
Heart Center
Bill Vanderland
Midland Supervisory
Vanderland
Village Circle
PV. Patel
Patel
Wanderland
Texas Supreme Court issues ethics rules for judges
The Texas Supreme Court adopted a new code of ethics for judges and rules governing campaign speech to resolve conflicts with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bans restricting candidate speech on legal or political issues. A commission will review Texas judicial restraints and propose revisions.
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Austin
Texas Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Minnesota
State Supreme Court
Texas
ECISD moves to bolster art programs district wide
ECISD officials led by executive director Charles Nail outline plans to upgrade arts education after last year’s arts audit. The audit, a collaboration with the Texas Alliance for Education and the Arts and the Kennedy Center project, evaluated local schools and prompts district wide improvements.
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ECISD
Ector County Independent School
Charles Nail
Tor
Texas Alliance For Education and the Arts
Kennedy Center For
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