Harmony in a Texas monastery of forty nuns
A 75 acre Dominican monastery in Lufkin Texas houses 40 women ages 20 to 85 practicing cloistered life. Daily prayers form the heart of activity as sisters perform sewing yard work and crafts while visitors are allowed only in the chapel. The order accepts new nuns from six weeks to five years of training, with about three new sisters joining annually.
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Lufkin
Texas
The
Pines
Mary Agnes
Mary William
Mary Gabriel
Texas Textbook Bets Bring Big Payoffs for Publishers
In Austin, the State Textbook Committee and State Board of Education votes drive multi million dollar sales for publishers. Life science adoptions include Holt Life Science and Exploring Living Things with protests from Americans United and Baytown readers over evolution coverage and missing creationist materials. NOW members object to diagrams showing female but not male reproductive organs, highlighting tensions over gendered content.
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Austin
Texas
State
State Board of Education
Edith Smith
Laidlaw
Board of Education
Holt
Holt Life Science
Silver
Webster McGraw-Hill
Merrill
Separation of Church and State
Monty Kester
Baytown
National Organization For Women (Now
Laidan
Attorneys challenge Texas free education law
Three attorneys challenge the 1975 Texas rule barring free public education for illegal alien children. They warn the policy creates a subculture of poverty, harming border families and provoking local education inequities. The hearings before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission cited Houston and Tyler district cases and argued the law forces undocumented parental migrants into poverty while denying U.S. citizen children education.
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San Antonio
Texas
Edinburg
David Hashmall
Texas Advisory Committee
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Alfredo Saenz
Linda Hanten
Rio Grande
Saenz
Mexico
Houston Independent School District
Houston
Hanten
Tyler Independent
Hashmall
Rio Grande Valley
U.S
Charles F. Hart
el Paso
Doctor Testifies Hospice Needed For Terminally Ill In Texas
An Orange doctor testifies that the medical field ignores terminally ill patients while focusing on those who can be saved. The hearing considers Southeast Texas Hospice Inc to establish Texas first hospice serving five counties with at home care and 24 hour support. Critics worry about duplicating home health services, while proponents highlight dignified end of life care and constant access to care.
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Austin
Texas
Gloria Castro-Zappla
Southeast Texas Hospice, Inc
Texas’ First
Orange
Jefferson
Hardin
Newton
Jasper
Texas Health Facilities Commission
Southeast Texas Hospice
Castro-Zappia
Connie Langton
Beaumont
William Kemp
Ms. Langton
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Gumout Care Cleaner
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