Big Bend park staff limit camping amid spring break rush
Rangers at Big Bend National Park began turning away campers from northern states and colleges due to new camping area limits. The four main campgrounds fill, prompting bans on back country camping and directing visitors to motels or private campgrounds. Spring break dates for local districts and colleges contribute to the surge, with students from UT and Texas A&M among arrivals. Canadian and American snowbirds join the influx as ecological concerns trigger the tighter rules.
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BIG Bend National Park Park Rangers
National Park Service
Robert Huggins
Ector County
Odessa College
University of Texas
Permian Basin
Texas
Huggins
Big Bend
Texas A&m University
Mauro reviews oil and gas leases for Texas schools
Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro orders a review of 16 000 state leases to raise funds for public schools by renegotiating terms with oil firms. He cites potential gains for the state and notes alignment with his largest donor Clinton Manges, while acknowledging some leases are dated and in need of change.
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Austin
Garry Mauro
Texas
Mauro
Dallas Morning News
Manges
Hospitals Won’t Aid Baby Indigence Cost Rise
Indigent care costs rise at Medical Center Hospital as 10 to 20 percent of the pediatric population lacks insurance. Dr William Furst notes a strong link between poverty and ill health in children. At Women’s and Children’s Hospital forty percent of neonatal unit births and ICU infants come from indigent families, shifting costs to the hospitals.
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William Furst
Medical Center Hospital
Furst
Medical Center
Women's and Children’s Hospital
Andrew Radoszewski
OPEC Slashes Price and Production in London Pact
OPEC agreed to a $5 per barrel price cut and a production ceiling of 17.5 million barrels per day after daylong talks in London. Venezuelan, Saudi and other ministers backed the plan but withheld individual quotas, aiming to avert a price war and stabilize markets amid weak refiners and already low spot prices.
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London
Qatar Oil
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Abdul Ast bin Khalifa al Thani
Iid
al Thani
Rioting erupts in Liberty City during open-air party
About 500 youths clashed with police in Miami’s Liberty City for four hours after officers shut down a noisy street party. Three injured and 31 arrested as windows were smashed, trash torched, a gas station ransacked, and sporadic gunfire reported in the predominantly black neighborhood.
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Miami
Liberty City
African Square Park
Juan Santos
Santos
Tampa
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Dorothy Whitman
Granada
Minn
Whitmans
South Texas
Clinton Manges
Jim Mattox
Duval County
Elizabeth Simpson
Grenda Stallings
Medical Center Nursery
Organization of
Petrolean
Jakarta
Indonesia
Humberto Calderon Berti
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Saudi Arabia
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