Big Spring health hearings set for elderly and disabled
A Texas legislative panel will hold a public hearing on health care for the elderly and disabled May 26 in Big Spring at 9 a.m. in the Dora Roberts Building, Howard County Junior College. Panel members include Senators Brooks Harris Meier and Rep Ezzell Florence, with DHR staff reviewing home and nursing home care options and funding.
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Big Spring
Dora Roberts
Howard County Junior College
Midland
Odessa
Abilene
Texas
Texas Department of Human Resources
DHR
Chet Brooks
Pasadena
Brooks
O.H
Ike) Harris
Dallas
Bill Meier
Euless
Mike Ezzell
Snyder
Buck Florence
Hughes Springs
Emmett Greif
M.D
Merle Springer
Lloyd Sterling
Supreme Court Upholds Texas Harassment Law in Debt Calls
The Supreme Court refused to review a Houston debt collection case, letting stand a Texas law that criminalizes repeated telephone calls to coerce payment. Collection Consultants Inc and Stella Thornton were convicted for harassing a customer over a $32.73 gasoline bill. Thornton kept contacting Ervin Grice despite disputes, declaring she would continue the calls.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Houston Collection Agency
Collection Consultants Inc
Stella Thorton
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Supreme Court Review
the Collection Agency
Thornton
Ervin O. Grice
Houston
Sigmar
Grice
Ms. Thornton
Survey shows farmers access to credit varies by lender
A March Agriculture Department survey across 12 hard hit states finds most farmers can still borrow from banks and PCAs, but marginal operators face credit and repayment problems. About 6 percent of bank borrowers were refused, up from 4 percent, with refinancings into real estate rising to 7 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department of Banks and Production Credit Associations
Pcas
Supreme Court rules courts may intervene in illegal private picketing
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 for Sears in a Chula Vista case, allowing state and federal courts to intervene in labor disputes involving illegal picketing on private property. The decision limits exclusive NLRA jurisdiction, upholding trespass or local law violations as grounds for court action.
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Tervene
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chula Vista
Calif
California Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
San Diego
Ruling set aside on alien workers for probation jobs
The Supreme Court instructed a Los Angeles federal panel to restudy a 1977 ruling that California aliens could not be probation officers. The 3 judge panel will reexamine the law in light of a March ruling allowing states to bar resident aliens from state police work. The suit by Chavez-Salido Bohorquez and Ybarra argued citizenship requirements violated equal protection.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Los Angeles
California
High Court
Jose Chavez-Salido
Ricardo Bohorquez
Pedro Ybarra
Los Angeles County
U.S
Chavez-Salido
Bohorquez
Ybarra
Los Angeles Housing Authority
Warren E. Burger
New Jersey
Derailment in Nacogdoches Evacuations Lifted, Residents Return
About 3,500 people were evacuated after a Southern Pacific freight train derailed in Nacogdoches Texas. Eleven of the sixteen cars burned after three explosions as two nursing homes were cleared and residents returned by morning. No injuries to crew. fumes area under watch with a two mile radius.
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Nacogdoches
Texas
East
Southern Pacific
Joe Bart
Rusty Sanders
Fire Department
Joe Owens
Police Department
Owens
Sanders
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State Department of Highways and Public Transportation
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Bob) Bickley
Robert Hinojos
State Legislative Unit
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Associated Press
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Big Bend
Emma Tarango
Esperansa Tarango
Jo Ann Graham
Raymond Rich
Lamar Elementary
Robert Hinojes
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