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Bill Clinton
United States
Rush Limbaugh
Clinton
White House
George W. Bush
Bush
John Ashcroft
Ted Kennedy
Hillary Clinton
Senate
Ken Brodnax
Olan
Freedom.com
County attorneys leaving posts
Ector County Attorney Tracey Bright says turnover in the office is high with three of six assistants having left in a year. Waterman moved to the city attorney’s office then departed. Clifton will leave next week for the same office at a higher wage. Bright plans to seek higher salaries at the Commissioners Court meeting Monday to retain qualified lawyers. Waterman’s $50,938.80 salary contrasted with the city’s $50,000 and Clifton’s $42,452.38, who will move to Odessa at $55,000.
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Ector County Attorney's Office
Ector County
Tracey Bright
Bright
Warren Waterman
County Attorney's Office
City Attorney’s Office
Waterman
Catherine Clifton
Cathy Linch
Andrews County Attorney’s Office
Commissioners Court
Williamson County
Joel Roberts
Clifton
Roberts
Odessa
Ramirez bootmakers keep Odessa craft alive since 1947
Efrain Ramirez and his son Gene run a long standing Odessa bootmaking shop that began in 1947. Though custom boots are rarer, the family emphasizes repair work and leather craft including coats, handbags, luggage, saddles, dyeing, and even bookbinding. Joe Ramirez started in Ozona in 1926 and moved to Odessa during the oil boom two decades later.
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Efrain Ramirez
Joe Ramirez
Odessa
Gene
North Hancock
Ramirez
Joe
Army captain's daughter teaches Midland students about Holocaust
Jo Miller, daughter of U S Army Captain Michel Levy who helped liberate Mauthausen, spoke to sixth graders at Reagan Elementary in Midland. She shared his wartime memories, Holocaust facts, and photos to inspire awareness of World War II atrocities.
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Jo Miller
Michel Levy
Levy
George Patton
Mauthausen
Austria
Miriam Goodrich
Miller
Midland
Michele Allen
Reagan Elementary School
Adolf Hitler
Reagan Elementary
U.S. Army
Doctor couple to open $1.1 million Odessa clinic
Obstetrics gynecology specialist Pill Raja and his wife Usha Kurra plan a new 6500 square foot single story medical office at Tom Green Avenue and Fourth Street. The project, valued at 663,5000, is contracted to Hawkins Construction and aims to open in early August.
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Tom Green Avenue
Fourth Street
Pill Raja
Usha Kurra
Raja
Fifth Street
Adams Avenue
Sheila Everage
Hawkins Construction
Odessa
Flushing Hospital Medical Center
New York
India
lawmakers urged to help ease gas cost in Texas
In Austin, state officials urged lawmakers to cut severance taxes on natural gas, offer rebates on utility taxes, and create incentives to boost gas production. Williams cited $488 million yearly severance taxes and $220 million in utility taxes as targets for relief while pushing utilities to buy gas cheaper and producers to dig new wells.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Michael Williams
Commission
Williams
House Energy Resources Committee
Ron Lewis
House Energy Committee
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