State Capital Highlights: Morales pushes amendment route for casino gambling
The Texas attorney general ruled that a constitutional amendment is required for legalizing casino gambling, meaning a two-thirds Senate vote and voter approval. House support tightens with 100 votes, not a simple majority. Other items cover the TEA zero tolerance proposal, Haley’s resignation from the Senate, and Texas job gains.
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Austin
Texas
Dan Morales
Morales
John Montford
D-Lubbock
Senate Finance Committee
Lloyd Criss
la Marque
The
Texas Riverboat Association
Criss
Austin American Statesman
Tom Panken
Texas Republican Party
Don Wittig
Houston
Rob “Mattress Mac” McKingvale
Viewpoint Library Reaches for Support in Wimberley
The Village Library thanks the Wimberley community for donations including two vacuum cleaners from Dr. Luan Brunson and Ann Clancey and a telephone from Dan Dickson. Subscriptions and magazines totaling hundreds of dollars fuel book purchases while the library seeks an answering machine and ongoing periodical donations. A lengthy reminiscence from C. Wimberley reflects on Cedar post markets, land use, and environmental policy foes, contrasting prior rural life with current regulatory pressure.
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Wimberley
Luan Brunson
Ann Clancey
Dan Dickson
Architectural Digest
Consumers’ Digest
Golf Digest
New York Times
Newsweek
PC Magazine
PC Novice
Reader's Digest
Texas Monthly
Texas Parks and Wildlife
U. S. News & World Report
Wimberley View
Austin American Statesman
Consumer Reports
National Geographic
Ranger Rick
San Marcos Record
Scientific American
Sesame Street Magazine
Seventeen
Sierra
Texas Gardener
Texas Highways
USA Today
Volunteer Fire Ants Seek Film Footage From Moundstock Show
The Wimberley Volunteer Fire Ants thank participants and helpers of Moundstock show. They ask everyone who shot footage to contact them to copy edit and compile a short film for a public showing, with copies given to contributors.
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Wimberley
Ray
Linda Shro
Snake
Josh Sterling
Charlie Davis
Wimberley Carousel Woodworks
Judy Billings
Bill Knight
Mark Cleaver
Mike
Scott
Channel 24 News
Lance
Carla
Cawley's
Junction
Fire Ants
Sierra Club Sparks Debate Over Cedar Brakes Leadership
To the Editor the Sierra Club faces sharp criticism for advising Hill Country ranchers, likening the club to pomp and suggesting it disrespects local dignity. The letter recalls FDR era think tanks, arguing outsiders misread Cedar Brake needs and culture.
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Sierra Club
Stalin
Sierra
Intelligentsia Tribunal
Cedar Brakes
Texas Hill Country
FDR
White House
Cedar Brake
Austin
Take Back Texas Protest at State Capitol Draws 4000 Strong
More than four thousand property owners converged on the Texas Capitol Saturday to protest federal Endangered Species Act interpretations. TAKE BACK TEXAS INC. members rode in pickups, on horseback, and in buses, marching from Palmer Auditorium to the south Capitol entrance with banners denouncing Clinton Gore Babbitt and the U S Fish and Wildlife Service. Speakers from Uvalde Hondo Buda Alpine Austin and San Antonio urged opposition and voiced calls to defend private land rights amid the dispute over federal land use and environmental policy.
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Texas Capitol
Suzanne Gasparotto
Texas Department of Public Safety
Take Back Texas Inc
Texas
Palmer Auditorium
Congress Avenue
Capitol
Bill Clinton
al Gore
Bruce Babbitt
U.S
Fish and Wildlife Service
Clinton
Hays County
Marshall Kuykendall
Rodger Zimmerman
Rutherfords
Rubus
Ray Lang
Dripping Springs
Danny McFadin
Uvalde
Hazel Graf
Hondo
Buda
Take Back Texas
Ralph Merriweather
Alpine
Trans-Texas Heritage Association
Robert Brandes
Austin
David Langford
San Antonio
Lee Texas
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Texas Education Agency
Dallas Morning News
Bill Ratliff
Mount Pleasant
Ratliff
Senate Education Committee
Haley
Bill Haley
D-Center
Texas Motor Transportation Association
Democratic Party
East Texas
Angelina
Nacogdoches
Cherokee
Hardin
Henderson
Jasper
Newton
Polk, Sabine
San Augustine
San Jacinto
Tyler
Smith and Montgomery
House
Senate
Texas Assessment
TEA
Arizona State University
Mary Saunders
Jack Maynier
Michael Averitt Starr
Linda Allen
Louie Bond
Harrrell Kine
DB Bearden
Jim Gore
Stone Park
Suite
Compuserve.Com
Haye
Wimberley View, Inc
Cornerstone Park
Suite A
P.O. Box
Arge
Other
Magazin
Janet Acord
Mary Powell
J. F. Bourke
Bill Rice
John White
Janie Brechtbill
Ed Brausieck
Jack Mynieres
Lbj
Lyndon
TVA
Buchanan Dam
Cedar Post
Marble Falls
OPA
Scrap Iron
Burnet
Buffalo Range
Ludlow Griscom
Connie Hagar
Kleberg County
Usda Soil Conservation Team
Buffalo
Kelly Field
California
Environmental Sierra
Esquire
Good Ole
U.S. of A
Feds
C. W. Wimberley
Llano County
Cedar-Post
Mtas
el Paso
RCAC
Sherenin, Pees Rerapaanter
Vane Maes
Axas Departmant
Wimberley Postal Advisory Committee
Reba Smith
Frank Austin
Jack L
Helen Campbell
Gor Anes
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