State Capital Highlights and Legal Wrap in Texas
Former Texas Agriculture Department aides Jim Hightower era found guilty of conspiracy and bribery linked to misused public funds. Moeller McRae and Quicksall face prison terms up to four years. sentencing set for November 19. Subpoena seeks grand juror in Hutchison case. tax, school funding, and federal grant issues also loom over Texas politics.
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Austin
Texas Agriculture Department
Agriculture Commission
Jim Hightower
Agriculture
Mike Moeller
Peter Thomas McRae
Billie Quicksall
Hightower
Moeller
McRae
Quicksall
Bob Boyd
Russell Koontz
Agriculture Department
Boyd
Koontz
Dallas Morning News
U.S
Dan Mills
Mills
William Allison
Melvin G. Wrenn
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Hutchison
Dick DeGuerin
Houston
Wrenn
Travis
DeGuerin
Travis County
Ronnie Earle
Texas
Texas Association of School Cards
Billy Walker
TASB
Walker
McCown
Association
Policy changes at village library hit long- lost books and fees
Village Library board on October 12 announced a moratorium on fines due to the heavy work of computerizing collections. Readers are urged to search for and return lost books to join a new database. New limits: paperback 10, audiobooks 3, videos 2. Replacement costs, barcodes, and identification rules updated. surveys welcome.
Woodcreek Golf Association names member member winners
The Woodcreek Men's Golf Association held its annual two man member member event October 19 17 with 42 teams. Day one and day two results across three flights and three modified formats established overall winners Opp Wyatt Robinett Kudla Carson Hazelrigg Warren Chandler McCarley Rachel Thomson Kudla Kowalski Oden and others.
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Woodcreek Men's Golf Association
Opp
Wyatt
Bidwell
Hightower
McDowell
Bush
Menard
Clark
Warren
Chandler
Wade
Balinger
Carson
Hazelrigg
McCarley
Rachel
Robinett
Kudla
Thomson Sr. & Jr
Haynes
Opp and Wyatt
Herod
Emfinger
Rayburn
Chetham
Kowalski
Oden
Beck
Thomson Sr. and Jr
McCarley & Rachel
Jordan & Rouse
Kowalski & Oden
Local woman in NATO exercise shines as Warner daughter joins Dynamic Guard '93
Air Force Senior Amn Judy M. Wagner, daughter of Ethlyn and Louie Wagner of Wimberley, served in the war headquarters of Exercise Dynamic Guard '93. An information specialist with the Sixth Allied Tactical Air Force in western Turkey, she helped coordinate a three week multinational drill including air, land, amphibious and naval forces from seven NATO nations. Wagner, a 1981 Jack C. Hays High School graduate in Buda, has been stationed there since December 1992.
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Air Force
Amn
Judy M. Wagner
Ethlyn
Louie Wagner
War
Wagner
Sixth Allied Tactical Air Force
Turkey
NATO
Jack C. Hays High School
Buda
Letters From North America on a National Holiday Agency
The piece parodies a Washington Federal Holiday Agency offering holiday suggestions by phone. It ridicules budgeting, staff sizes, and the rise of consumer tied holidays like Sweetest Day and Bosses Day, noting lasting questions about who creates holidays and the commerce behind them.
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Peary Perry
Federal
Washington
Pentagon
Federal Holiday Agency
FHA
I Remember When Painting With Words Editor Note
Reader letter notes a typographical error in a past piece and proposes precise edits to change two uses of Jack Frost to when frost appears in paragraphs two and three. The writer recalls winter travels with Marsha Johnson across Texas and into New Mexico, apologizes, and credits The Great I Am and Marsha for safety and scenes seen.
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The
View
Mother Nature
Jack Frost
Texas
New Mexico
Marsha Johnson
Marsha
Ma Nature
Jack
Frost
Chicken Chew Thanks You from Deer Creek Nursing Center
A Deer Creek Nursing Center event thank you note praises staff and volunteers for the annual Chicken Chew. Special thanks go to James Bates for the sign Jeff Hardwick for the pit and to Dave and Bruce Calkins for the large pit behind CCC La Warre Bushman for a large tent and to attendees who bought tickets. Lucille Caffey extends gratitude and jokes about punctuality.
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Deer Creek Nursing Center
James Bates
Jeff Hardwick
Dave
Bruce Calkins
CCC
la Warre Bushman
Lucille Caffey
Deer Creek
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New York University
Robert Berne
University
Erne
U.S. Census Bureau
John Sharp
Martin Frost
Dallas
U.S. Housing and Urban Development
Henry Cisneros
U.S. Senate
San Antonio
Wimberley View
Jack Mynier
Mary Saunders
Janelle Delaney Starr
Linda Allen Lourie Bono Harrell King
DB Bearden
Stone Park
Suite
Wimberley
Hays County
Wimberley View, Inc
Cornerstone Park
Suite A
P.O. Box
North America
V.W
Thur
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