Telvista to boost Odessa hiring after Plano closure
Telvista will accelerate hiring at its Odessa call center to offset the loss of about 200 of 650 Plano jobs as the firm closes the Plano facility due to high costs. The company will transfer staff to Grapevine or Odessa and expand in Danville, Virginia, and Grapevine.
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Blacksmith Knight Teaches Welding At Kermit High
Frank Buddy Knight, a certified blacksmith and silversmith at Kermit High School, educates industrial technology students in welding and drafting. When not teaching, Knight creates custom spurs, forgings, and sterling silver jewelry, noting none of his pieces bear stamps, making each an original creation.
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Buddy’ Knight
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Marfa
Teacher's hobby spurs his earnings in Marfa and Kermit
Knight, 54, a longtime craftsman and spur maker, began at 14 in Marfa and learned from Elmer Miller in Idaho and Jeremiah Watt in Hobbs. He built a custom metal shop, taught at Van Horn and Kermit, and now crafts spurs and buckles in evenings and summers. His son Bradley also works with metal.
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Nampa
Idaho
Knight
Dunshee
Jeremiah Watt
New Mexico Junior College
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van Horn
Kermit
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Conaway Named Assistant Majority Whip for 109th Congress
US Rep elect Mike Conaway of Midland was named assistant majority whip by House Majority Whip Roy Blunt. The post for the 109th Congress, which starts in January, positions him as a key vote-gatherer and closer to leadership for stronger district representation.
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Missouri
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House of Representatives
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Telvista Deal Promises 500 Odessa Jobs by 2008
In December 2003 Telvista agreed to create 500 new jobs in Odessa by 2008 in return for a $3.8 million grant and loan package from the Odessa Development Corp. The deal leveraged the quarter-cent economic development sales tax to attract Telvista to the city.
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Odessa
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Bush names Bodman energy secretary and problem solver
President Bush selected Samuel W. Bodman as energy secretary and called him a problem solver to tackle high oil prices nuclear waste and a Congress reluctant to back the energy plan. Bodman, 66, has been No 2 at the Commerce Department and recently at the Treasury.
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