Texas grows young population reshapes UIL districts
Census data show Texas added about 310000 residents under 14 from 2000 to 2003, the nation’s largest increase. State demographer Steve Murdock notes rapid youth growth pressures on education and high school realignments, with Spring ISD planning a new high school by 2008 as districts redraw lines for future years.
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Port Arthur
Texas
University Interscholastic League
Census Bureau
Steve Murdock
Texas State Data Center
Maine
Murdock
San Antonio
Dallas
McCutchen
Spring Isd
UIL
Pesticides warehouse fire near Houston prompts indoor warnings
PASADENA AP The blaze at a suburban Houston pesticides warehouse began around 5 30 am at the Controlled Solutions site 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston. Firefighters battled flames for hours as residents in El Lago Taylor Lake Village Seabrook and the Pasadena neighborhood of El Jardin were urged to stay indoors. No injuries were reported and the cause was not disclosed.
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Pasadena
Houston
Controlled Solutions
el Lago
Taylor Lake Village
Seabrook
Chris Shannahan
Alan Seamead
Halliburton shares dip as Pentagon audit looms
Investors react cautiously to Halliburton disclosure that a formal Pentagon audit of procurements in Iraq and Kuwait could hit liquidity if refunds or billing are delayed. The Houston firm, amid SEC filing, noted a potential $141 million in overcharges and possible further reviews, with Middle East work accounting for about 3.6 billion of 16 billion 2003 revenue.
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Houston
Wall Street
Halliburton Co
Pentagon
Iraq
Kuwait
New York Stock Exchange
Energy Company
Securities and Exchange Commission
Joe
Agular
Johnson Rice
Halliburton
Middle East
Dick Cheney
Defense Contract Audit Agency
KBR
Kellogg Brown & Root
U.S
Defense Department
SEC
Mejas to be purchased for wildlife refuge
A Central Texas ranch of mesas known as the Yegua Knobs will be managed by a land trust after a national conservation group bought the 302 acre tract with proceeds from an air pollution settlement. Trust for Public Land used $574,000 from the Atlantic Richfield settlement to purchase the Roy Knippa property and transfer it to Pines and Fenties Land Trust for management as Bastrop county's first private wildlife refuge.
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New Braunfels
Bastrop-based Pines and Fenties Land Trust
Bastrop Ust
Bastrop Oree
Knippa
IFO
Ota Tam
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West Texas
Medicare
Ronette
Menom Cde Fintunaride
Eee Ae
Catanae
Big Spring
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