All 31 state Senate seats up for election next year
Secretary of State John Hannah said all 31 state Senate seats will be on the ballot next year amid a lawsuit over Senate district boundaries. The 1992 districts, later challenged by Democrats, prompted a panel to order a new plan affecting 1994 elections. The memo notes confusion from ongoing litigation and outlines recent partisan actions shaping future elections.
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Senate
John Hannah
Hannah
Treasury
Travis County
Kay Bailey Hutchison
David Criss
Treasury Department
Steve McCleery
Criss
Hutchison
U.S. Senate
Grand Jury
Amy Johnson
Richards
Johnson
Texas
John Sharp
Sharp
Lionel “Skip” Meno
Texas Education Agency
TU Electric Co
Public Utility Commission
TU Electric
Public
Luis Wilmot
Viewpoint on Weekend Hardware Store Mania and Caveman Urges
A humorous essay analyzes weekend shoppers at Mega Hardware Mart who turn simple pickups into imagined tractors, driven by impulse and stockpiled tools. The narrator muses on cordless staplers, consumer urges, and shared obsessions, joking about male bravado and preparedness culture.
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Peary Perry
Mega-Hardware Mart
Wembleton
Village Library expands hours and book arrivals
The Village Library now opens Saturdays 9 am to 2 pm. New best sellers include Pleading Guilty, The Scorpio Illusions, Gai Jin, and Cruel and Unusual. Other new fiction features A Case of Need, The Holy Thief, Star Wars The Last Command, and The Ten Thousand. The Fifties is in non fiction.
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Scott Turow
Robert Ludlum
James Clavell
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Crichton
Ellis Peters
Timothy Zahn
Harold Coyle
David Halberstam
Texas Readers' Club
Fire department rescues Browns as mobile home burns
Dear Editor the Wimberley fire department answered a 911 call around 430 this morning July 18 on Mt Sharp Road and prevented the fire from reaching the Browns home and their daughter’s home. Gene Brown notes a 1983 fire destroyed their home and all possessions but thanks the firefighters for stopping this morning’s spread.
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Wimberley
Browns
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Don Henderson
Houston
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Jim Turner
Crockett
Bullock
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Claire Konioth
Richardson
Andrews
Klondike
Allison
Borden County
Ann Richards
Robert Seerden
Corpus Christi
13Th Court of Appeals
Joseph Kelly
Victoria
24Th District Court
Seerden
Paul Nye
Kelly
Clarence Stevenson
Jack Mynner
Mary Saunders
Janelle Delaney Starr
Louie Bono Harrell King
DB Bearden
Stone Park
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Wimberley View
Hays County
Wimber View, Inc
Cornerstone Park
Suite A
P.C. Box
Spcntial
North America
Mary Tarrant
Stephen Quiller
Arthur Guptill
Robert Zappiotti
Joe Singer
Peter Wildbur
Yasuburo Kawayama
Joanna Carrington
Rudy DeReyna
the Village Library
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Baum
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Brown
Gene Brown Family
Atte
Sudden Images
Caring Institute
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Capitol Hill
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Washington
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Eastman Kodak Company
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