Tag: texas
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paul backers make their presence known
from star-telegram: Rep. Ron Paul wasn’t there for most of the first day of the Republican straw poll Friday, but his presence was felt everywhere. In the “Ron Paul” placards people carried throughout downtown. In the T-shirt likeness of him that supporters wore around the Fort Worth Convention Center. In the signs posted in front…
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$80k settlement in anti-bush t-shirt case
from msnbc/ap: A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state…
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former first lady lady bird johnson dies at 94
from houston chronicle: Lady Bird Johnson, a former first lady, a Texas legend, a woman who used the humble wildflower to teach an entire nation to treasure and preserve the environment, died Wednesday. She was 94. In recent years, the widow of Lyndon Baines Johnson was virtually silenced by a stroke. She was nearly blinded…
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texas gov orders anti-cancer vaccine
from ap/reason: Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer… Perry also directed state health authorities to make the vaccine available free to girls 9 to 18 who are uninsured or…
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texas bill would give blind right to hunt
from times online: The blind will be able to go hunting if a Texas Bill becomes law. They would have to be accompanied by a sighted hunter, who would help to guide their shots, and carry proof that they were legally blind. The law will also allow them to use a laser sight — a…