Petition Tag - texas

Do you care about veterans and would like to help many in some small way?

Signing this petition is that WAY you can do just that!
New tests PROVE injury to Persian Gulf Illness Veterans.

A brain scan reported Sep 15 2011 to show brain injury in PGI Vets. A SKY blood test shows chromosome damage in PGI Vets. Yet the CDC which VA follows, has now limited how many symptoms PGI Vets are actually related to PG Illness.

You can go to the website link and see many articles or videos about this subject. Please do! You can show some support and encouragement for PGI Vets that visit that page also! Please do! It is visited by PGI Vets globally.

So with the new tests available, PGI Vets can have their injury rated for compensation and move for treatment research for such injury. Any money now given for research to PGI is only going to be on what symptoms are being recognized as related to PGI.

This is why PGI Vets should have the new tests done. Please sign this petition and share with others to tell the legislature to pass a law for PGI Vets to be tested with the new tests. Thank you for your support! PLEASE share this petition with others!

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Boxer Lee John Canalito "the Italian Stallion" has made a formal challenge to Two-Time Heavyweight Champion George Foreman. All for charity of course!

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The Driver Responsibility Program is governed by Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 708, which established a system to assess surcharges based on certain traffic offenses that have occurred on or after September 1, 2003.

A surcharge is an administrative fee charged to a driver based on the convictions reported to the driving record. There are two criteria that determine if a surcharge will be assessed. Those two criteria are: Point System and Conviction Based surcharges.

Surcharges are in addition to all other reinstatement fees required for other administrative actions and do not replace any administrative suspension, revocation, disqualification or cancellation action that results from these same convictions.

This is so bad that for a few thousand bucks the Texas legislature would ruin everyone's livelihood. This law is making the Texas economy worse. There are so many people driving with a license suspended that there will be a time when no one's license is valid.

Unconstitutional Double Jeopardy! This is outrageous there is no public transportation in all areas. It just goes to show you how you can go just about everywhere and see alcohol advertizments and alcohol everywhere you drive too. I just thinks it is hypocritical to have alcohol available everywhere and have these types of surcharge laws.

How about making a law that you can only drink alcohol at home. Not only for alcohol but if you get a traffic ticket.. you lose your license... you get overcharged!

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Euthanasia, either painlessly putting to death or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma. The term comes from the Greek expression for "good death."

Technological advances in medicine have made it possible to prolong life in patients with no hope of recovery, and the term negative euthanasia has arisen to classify the practice of withholding or withdrawing extraordinary means (e.g., intravenous feeding, respirators, and artificial kidney machines) to preserve life. Accordingly, the term positive euthanasia has come to refer to actions that actively cause death.

The term passive euthanasia is used when certain common methods of treatment, such as antibiotics, drugs, or surgery, are withheld or a large quantity of needed but ultimately lethal pain medication is supplied. By the end of the 20th cent. passive euthanasia was said to be a common practice among U.S. hospitals and physicians. With regard to euthanasia in animals, there are strict rules and guidelines that ensure ethical euthanasia and disposal.

Much debate has arisen in the United States among physicians, religious leaders, lawyers, and the general public over the question of what constitutes actively causing death and what constitutes merely allowing death to occur naturally. The physician is faced with deciding whether measures used to keep patients alive are extraordinary in individual situations, e.g., whether a respirator or artificial kidney machine should be withdrawn from a terminally ill patient.

The Supreme Court's decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health set a precedent for the removal of life-support equipment from terminal cases.

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From:
Concerned Vietnamese American Citizens

To:
The President of University of Texas at Austin
The Director of Center for Asian Studies at UT/Austin
The Director of The Texas Language Center

William Powers Jr.
President
The University of Texas at Austin
Main Building 400 (G3400)
Post Office Box T
Austin, Texas 78713-8920
512-471-1232
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Juan C. González
Vice President for Student Affairs
U.S. Mailing Address
P. O. Box 7699
Austin, Texas 78713-7699

Campus Mail Address
Main Building 121 (G5000)
512-471-1133
512-471-5558 fax
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Don Hale
Vice President for Public Affairs
U.S. Mailing Address
P.O. Box Z
Austin, Texas 78713-8926
Campus Mail Address
Main Building 301 (G3200)
512-475-6869, 471-3151
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Gregory J. Vincent
Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement
U.S. Mailing Address
1 University Station, G1050
Austin, Texas 78712
Campus Mail Address
Main Building 12 (G1050)
512-471-3212
512-475-7385 fax
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President’s Staff
Nancy Brazzil
Deputy to the President
512-471-1232
nab@po.utexas.edu
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Center for Asian Studies
ceas@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Robert M Oppenheim
Coordinator
rmo@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-7279
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The Texas Language Center
Thomas Garza
Director
tjgarza@mail.utexas.edu
Homer Rainey Hall (HRH) 4.196
Email: tlc@austin.utexas.edu
Phone 512-471-6574

Subject: Vietnamese Language Course and Instructors

Dear Sir or Madam:

We, undersigned, are Vietnamese American citizens living in the United States.

1. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, millions of Vietnamese have fled the country because they don’t accept the Communist regime.

2. As refugees, we always embrace our wishes to restore the democracy and freedom to our fellow people in Vietnam.

3. We have tried so hard to keep our identity as Vietnamese against the Communism. Our heritage flag (the Yellow Background and three Red stripes) was recognized by Texas State, Travis County and City of Austin in 2004. It was also recognized by scores of States, counties, and cities all over the nation.

4. There are thousands of Vietnamese American students at the University of Texas, whose parents are refugees from Communist Vietnam. We expect that they will be taught Vietnamese language by instructors from our community.

5. The facts that Mr. Hoang Ngo – from Communist Vietnam with different political background and perspective - has been teaching our children; and the Communist flag displayed on the official website of UT/Austin, we consider these are an offense and challenge to our community.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/tlc/SLI/Vietnamese- Language-Program.php

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Funding for public and higher education was allotted the most money for the 2010-2011 budget, suggesting its importance. So why cut the funding? By significantly reducing funding for education, you will be putting thousands of teachers and faculty (including janitors and bus drivers) out of work.

By decreasing funding, you will be decreasing the amount of educational programs students in both public and higher education receive. More notably, as minority students have continuously been adversely affected by a lack of funding in education (including overpopulated classrooms, a scarcity of decent technology, facilities, after-school programs, and scholarships), decreasing the already insufficient amount will only increase the inadequacies for us.

As a minority college student, I am relying on financial aid to complete my higher learning. Cutting into these funds will not only raise tuition and reduce student services, but it will prevent me from completing my last year of college.

Education is the most important thing you can offer the students of Texas, the future of this great state. Being that all of you needed education to get to where you are today, I am sure you understand how critical it is to our society. Without it, there would be no government officials like you. Your current budget (allotting $75.4 billion, the largest amount, to education) proves that you realize this, but your current actions represent the contrary. Did education all of a sudden lose its value? We all realize economic times are currently very difficult, but should our current economy be the determinant of a successful future?

I see a future of educated Texans with technological, political, artistic, scientific, and business success, increasingly boosting the economy of Texas. But this bright future can only be realized if you, the people we trust, the people we elected, do not turn your backs on us. If you do, you will be essentially hindering the economy of the future. If you do, you will be preventing future lawyers and doctors from graduating, the next government officials from running this state.

We challenge you to instead:
o Balance the $3.2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund with other alternatives to avoid making large cuts in the education budget that will prevent new recipients of Texas Grants (which largely fund the college education of minority students)
o Spend less on underused areas of the budget
o Generate revenue to offset costs
o Instead of allowing public schools to take up electricity during the summer and other holidays, use the buildings for activities and events to generate revenue when school is not in session.
o Increase taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and other non-necessities.

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Trooper Carlos Warren was shot and killed when he interrupted an abduction in progress at a rural highway rest area on Highway 71 near Del Valle, Texas. He was shot in the neck.

The suspect fled the scene but was later stopped in San Antonio, Texas, for not wearing his seatbelt. He opened fire on the officer who stopped him and was wounded by the officer's return fire. He was convicted of Trooper Warren's murder and sentenced to prison. He is eligible for parole in 2008.

Trooper Warren had served with the Texas Highway Patrol for 12.5 years, and was assigned to Region 6. He is survived by his parents, two daughters, and three brothers.

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Εχουν λυσσάξει πια με τη Μακεδονία !
στο Αμερικάνικο site http://www.topix.com/forum/world/mac...AAFN23PMGMJ147
έχουν αναρτήσει δημοσκόπηση για το αν είναι η Μακεδονία Ελληνική...
Να φτιάξουμε κι εμείς μια δημοσκόπηση για το αν είναι Αμερικάνικο το TEXAS ;
ή μήπως αν τολμήσει να το κάνει αυτό κάποιος θα στείλουν αεροπλανοφόρα και θα ισοπεδώσουν τη χώρα "για να πατάξουν την τρομοκρατία;"

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Klein Oak Choir's head director has resigned unexpectedly from the staff of Klein Oak. We believe that he has been asked to quit from Klein Oak by a filed complaint against him. He has been an amazing director and he has deeply impacted everyone of us.

If he was to leave this choir program our choir would lose everything Dr. Morris has tried so hard to achieve. Our choir is one of the best in the state of Texas and deserves only the best, Dr. Terry Morris.

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On July 9, 2009 both the Brown County Appraisal District and the Appraisal Review Board were given facts supporting the premises that the properties of Brown County Texas are not being appraised accurately or fairly according to their market value.

The most valuable properties in Brown County are being appraised WELL below their market value, while other, moderately priced properties are being appraised at the very top of their market value. This is not legal under the Texas Property Tax Code and needs to be corrected.

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Father's rights in the state of Texas is in need of serious reform! Father's are financially raped while only getting to see their children less than 10% of the time each week. A father is paying $800 a month based on what he USED to make. Visitation is a joke. 3 hours every other week equals 1.7% of the time. Even on the 1st, 3rd and 5th weekends it only goes up to 6.5% of the time.

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The Palo Duro canyon is the second largest canyon in the world, second only to the Grand Canyon. It was home to the Comanche Indians. The mackinzie raid, one of the last great battles with the indians happened here. It is important habitat for all types of wildlife.

It is the least developed and most unique places in our area. There are several better alternative routes for this transmission line.

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It has come to the attention of the band parents that the band is over budget for operation and transportation costs this year. While the Medina Valleyy HS Football team has enjoyed an exemplary year and has excelled through the playoffs, success comes with a price.

The band enjoys their role of showing support and helping boost the spirit of the fans and football team during the games but is showing a negative transportation budget due to the extra travel involved during the playoffs.

The football team trains long an hard to be a success and their training shows during the games. The band also spends many hours working and training for success.

In addition to supporting the football team, the band also works to prepare for and travels to contests, competitions and concerts throughout the area. The band members give their all to fulfil their potential and meet the obligations and challenges ahead of them throughout the year. They will not be successful in these endeavors without the financial assistance needed for travel to these various events.

As parents who pay school taxes for the district it is our concern that some organizations receive a healthier budget than others. While it is understandable that the football team would have a larger budget as money is needed for uniforms, pads, coaches, trainers, etc, the band also needs some assistance as they travel with the football team during the playoff games.

While most expenses can be budgeted for prior to the school year, no one knows how well the football team will play during the playoffs, and often times, those extra games and travel expenses cannot be accounted for during the annual budget meetings. As the band continues to support the football team through the playoffs, additional funding is required to cover the expenses already incurred and cover future costs competitions, parades, concerts, and other band activities.

The MVHS band parents are requesting your assistance in obtaining the necessary funding for the band's travel expenses.

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Over eleven hundred semiconductor workers, engineers, and support staff were laid off when the silicon manufacturing plant, STMicroelectronics closed its site in Carrollton,TX and went overseas in this past year.

The last several dozen people in the company put together several state and federal grant and loan applications to convert this silicon manufacturing site to a silicon solar manufacturing company (G2V website: www.G2vtech.com ) complete with solar education, and certificate and degree programs, to not only retrain and hire back all 1100 people, but provide new Green Economy employable skills and education for other laid off workers and young people in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

The state grant was essential for the initial cost of the project - to buy the plant and set up the retraining with local colleges, and to apply for the Federal low interest loans. A group of thirty or forty scientist and engineers have been working on this business plan for the past 4 months.

In spite of a positive initial response from the TX state government, it seems that the state grant is not coming through. We requested 30 - 40 million dollars. There is enough money in the state budget allocation for the State Enterprise Development Fund to support this project, however the funding is basically at the discretion of TX Governor Perry (although the lieutenant governor and secretary of state also must sign their approval, if Governor Perry agrees, the other approvals are virtually assured.) As of now it seems that the application for the grant has been shelved indefinitely.

It should be noted that the cost of one year of state unemployment benefits for those laid off workers would be roughly equal to the grant in question to pay for the solar manufacturing facility - costing the state of TX and it's taxpayers nothing for this great benefit.

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Facing economic woes, the USPS is considering closing the East Station Post Office at 1914 East 6th Street to save money.

The East Station has long served the culturally and ethnically diverse residents of East Austin’s many historic neighborhoods. The East Station is the only post office east of I-35, providing postal services to Austin’s historically underserved residents and many East Austin businesses.

The East Station not only has the largest service area in Austin, but notably serves a unique customer base that includes many of East Austin’s working poor, elderly, and Spanish-speaking residents who rely daily on the convenient and local services provided by the East Station. Closing this post office will create an undue burden for many residents of the East Side, therefore we oppose its closure.

Please visit http://saveourstation.eastaustinite.com for additional details.

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“We” as the people and leaders in whence “We” have come from and inherited from our forefathers 233 years ago following the Declaration of Independence, and 222 years ago after ratification of our Constitution. Fifty States govern America, not by Federal force, and the government “United States” is a body guided by these states.

In light of this fact it puts what our forefathers intended in to a larger and broader perspective. It means “We” are the United States of America, NOT this IS the United States of America. Our forefathers wanted unification and rule by many, NOT unification by rule of one. The executive branch has decided to much without the approval of Congress.

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Bring Miley Cyrus/HannahMontana to Dallas, Texas.

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BCJ HOLDS, L.L.C. (Allen Edwin Homes) has applied to the Charter Township of Texas Planning Commission for approval of a Planned Unit Development (PUD). This proposal includes a request for rezoning (currently zoned R-2) due to substantial reductions in lot size. The reduction in lot size is due to their proposed 38.3 acres of preserved open space, including a perimeter trail that may provide beneficial neighborhood transition zones, and help retain access to open space recreation that Bay Ridge families currently enjoy in the undeveloped lot/field. Without the rezoning, the development would not include preserved open space, and would include a 216-lot subdivision (Comparison Plan), as opposed to a 237-lot subdivision (Preliminary Concept Development Plan). The Concept Plan, which includes the preserved open space, also calls for retaining the Bay Ridge Road and Bentley Drive cul-de-sacs.

However, the Township, County Road Commission, and Fire Department may or may not approve the retention of the two cul-de-sacs, in part based on Section 16-82(a)(1)b of the Zoning Ordinance under Subdivision Control, which requires that “the arrangement of streets shall provide for a continuation of existing streets from adjoining areas in the new subdivision.”

This Preserve Bay Ridge Neighborhood petition seeks approval from the Charter Township of Texas Planning Commission not to extend Bay Ridge Road and Bentley Drive into the new Concept Plan development, and to upgrade the existing cul-de-sacs as per recommendations provided by Thomas C. Wheat in his April 13, 2009 memorandum to the Planning Commission. This request is based on three important factors:

1. Concern that extending Bay Ridge Road and Bentley Drive as through-streets would degrade the quality of life, and decrease the safety of residents and children in the Bay Ridge neighborhood by increasing the speed and frequency of traffic to and from the new Rudgate Trails development.

2. Despite the lot size variance for the Concept Plan, we believe that integrating open space, or “green infrastructure,” in subdivision developments provides substantial quality of life and environmental benefits, including, but not limited to access to recreation lands; natural storm water runoff filtration and retention; wildlife habitat; and scenic beauty.

3. An adequate transition zone would help preserve the character and identity of the respective neighborhoods.

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On October 1st, 2006 the Texas Legislature voted in a presumptive tax for used motor vehicles Purchased and or registered in Texas. (Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 6, § 3, eff. Oct. 1,
2006.)

For example, this means that if you buy a vehicle for $1000, but the State says 80% of the value of this vehicle is $3000 (presumptive value), you will pay 6.25% of of $3000, as opposed to 6.25% of what you actually paid, which is $1000.

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Why support the same old politicians? Why not support a regular Texan?

For real change, vote Tommy Lee.

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Texas Death Row Inmate, Larry Swearingen #999361 Gets Execution Date on January 27, 2009.

An INNOCENT MAN on death row in Texas.

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Texas was once its own country free to make its own choices. Many Texans have lost sight of this and are unaware that it is a viable option for us to do again. Neither the US Constitution or the Texas Constitution states that secession is in any way illegal.

Texas as well as every other state has the right to chose whether they want to chose to stay in the United States. The framers of the Constitution saw the states as just a coalition of the states coming together to form a nation and system of security. These securities have been violated time and time again with the ever increasing powers of the national government as it continually saps the liberties from the common citizens in every state.

It is time for the people to stand together and form once again the Republic of Texas to ensure that all of our liberties are protected and can never be encroached upon again.

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In Texas, most home remodeling contractors and their employees are not screened, tested, or certified before offering services to homeowners.

This has led to countless situations where a contractor, either by inexperience, incompetence, disregard, negligence, or even bad faith has left a homeowner with an incomplete or badly finished home remodeling project.

And while a contractor can place a lien against a homeowners home in case of non-payment for his services, the homeowner has relatively few resources against a bad contractor.

In view of this situation, we hereby request that the Texas Legislature allow the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations to initiate the testing and licensing of those contractor who want to perform work in a homestead.

Such licensing could follow the same model already used in the few licensed trades such as plumbing, electrician, A/C technicians, etc.

At very least proper competency should be established and a background check performed.

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Harris County Texas has No Loud Noise/Music Ordinances.

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-Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)- 84% nursing homes did not meet federal standards governing quality of care. 94% did not meet minimum staffing levels.

-currently 1.5 million nursing home residents and in 2050 projected to quadruple to 6.6 million.

-last recorded in July 2008 (still growing) 201,628 prison inmates
-U.S General Accounting Office- proved nursing homes fail to meet federal health standards.

- hundreds of nursing home residents are victimized by: Negligent care, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or exploitation.

-Federal Law for nursing homes: "provide services and activities to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident."

-In Texas, prison spending rose 346% and higher education spending rose 47%

-NAACP Washington Bureau

-studies show people receiving a higher ed. are more likely to achieve than to commit a crime or felony.

-Government spending taxes on convenient stores and cable TV for prisoners.

-Government officials use governments' extra money to remodel their own homes and etc.

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**This petition is a feasibility research tool for my proposed business concept.**

As a non-invasive diagnostic tool, thermal images can detect subtle ‘heat’ anomalies which are sensitive indicators of early inflammatory change in soft tissues and circulatory discrepancies.

Thermographs can detect the onset of inflammatory reaction in joints and tendons up to two weeks prior to clinical appearance of lameness, and enable the practitioner to instantly visualize neurovascular changes and musculoskeletal abnormalities. Imagine the possibilities of this diagnostic tool when applied to artificially inseminated deer. Thermal images will enable you to detect a successful AI and monitor it’s progress. As well as, inspect the reproductive organs PRIOR to AI.

Thermography is a well-documented,(since the 1960’s in veterinary discipline), powerful, non-invasive diagnostic modality that can help the client and their veterinarian detect, confirm, and document a problem BEFORE the onset of complications and a more serous injury. Before thermography, veterinarians could rely only on observation or palpation to locate a problem, but with thermography, an abnormality can be defined as a thermographic or infrared anomaly that identifies stress before the onset of damage.

These subtle thermal abnormalities revel: fevers, infestations, circulatory problems, bacterial & viral sickness and musculoskeletal injuries.

In summary, the use of thermography in the equine, other athletic animals and farming is not new to veterinary medicine. However, we are just beginning to understand the potential applications and benefits that it offers when used to evaluate, treat, monitor and rehabilitate the deer breeding and large game ranchers. This niche in industry is void of competition, which enables me the perfect opportunity. My business concept is to provide these services, on-site, for deer breeders, ranchers, wildlife insurance underwriters and live stock auctioneers. Then, refer my client, with images and report, to a Veterinarian as needed.

*Seed investors welcome

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A sucessful coach/teacher/friend is being reassigned from her head softball coaching. She has won the dictrict's division title for atleast 6 years in a row but up until recently, she lost a game to a great pitcher, and now she can't coach anymore.

The Clyde School Board won't tell us, students and parents, what's going on. All we know is she can't coach anymore. We need her badly. I, myself, will be a freshman next year and I was looking forward to play for her.

This year she was also our basketball's head coach and let me tell you what, she made us in the best shape of our lives. I have never done better before. Since I am a kid, I can't do that much but that is why I need your help.

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The Backyard has been an important venue for live music in Austin for many years. It has been voted "Best Open Air Venue" by the Austin Chronicle and "Best Place To Hear Live Music" by Citysearch.

Artists from Willie Nelson to David Bowie have graced its stage. Closing The Backard would be closing one of Austin's most important music venues, and certainly, would not be "keeping austin weird."

Although it has been said a new Backyard would be built, it would not retain the history of the old one.

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The tip of the iceberg. This story just broke today and as it develops more news is coming out that many of these people, who claim they didn't "mean" to vote in both Republican and Democratic primaries, actually did and are delegates for -- you guessed it -- Obama (who, no surprise, won in Harris County). I will post more information as I find it. This is from the Houston Chronicle.

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The law should simply state you can not pay cash, receive gift cards, or gift certificates, it should not say what points a person can take out and what or how much they can redeem with their point cards. It's not gambling it is for Amusement.

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