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Lake Jackson, TX 77566
Recent News About The Local
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AUSTIN - A court would likely conclude that the common-law incompatibility doctrine does not bar a Nueces County commissioner from simultaneously serving as the general manager of the South Texas Water Authority, states an opinion released by Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday.
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Whom do you blame when monthly utility charges go up – for electricity, gas, phone, cable, etc.? The companies providing the services, right?
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AUSTIN - Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that the attorney general cannot prosecute election cases unilaterally – a decision AG Ken Paxton thinks “could be devastating for future elections in Texas.”
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Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.
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HOUSTON — Two Texas A&M students allege they suffered severe burns after an industrial cleaner was poured on them at a fraternity pledging event.
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We knew there was little scientific support for healthy people wearing surgical masks in public, and we doubted the necessity and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, but now we know that social distancing is counterproductive and potentially dangerous.
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The news over the past few years has offered little to cheer about, but a recent story reporting an unprecedented 43 percent decline in membership in the Boy Scouts of America from 2019 to 2020—from 1.97 million Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts to 1.12 million—was especially dispiriting.
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HOUSTON – It’s not a nepotism issue for Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee’s father-in-law to keep providing collection services for the county, according to an opinion issued by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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HOUSTON – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Saira S. Siddiqui, an associate in the firm’s Houston office, has been named to the board for the South Asian Bar Association of Houston (SABA Houston) as the Vice President of Community Outreach, a press release states. Her term began June 12.
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AUSTIN – Today, the Senate Committee on Businesses and Commerce heard SB 1013 by Senator Dawn Buckingham, which would give Texans the opportunity to vote for seven-day spirits sales through local option elections, a press release states.
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What effect will the recent influx of immigrants have on our court system?
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New business licenses/assumed names issued in Jefferson County, April 15-20, 2010
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New business licenses/assumed names issued in Jefferson County, Dec. 4-10, 2008
