Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Saturday 13th July, 2013
The Corpus Christi Municipal Band performs in concert at 8:30 p.m. July 14 at Heritage Park, 1581 N. Chaparral St. The concert is free and open to the public. Now celebrating their 62nd concert season, the Corpus Christi Municipal Band will perform light classics, Broadway standards and music from the movies. Master of Ceremonies David Irving, Del Mar College Jazz Band director, and Conductor ...
Texas Republicans pass abortion bill Democrats vow to challenge
The Globe and Mail - Saturday 13th July, 2013
State Senators, from left, Sylvia R. Garcia, D-Houston, Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, Royce West, D-Dallas, Kirk Watson, D-Austin, and John Whitmire, D-Houston, greet abortion rights advocates to show they voted against HB2, which the Senate approved late Friday night, July 12, 2013. Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the ...
Judge to mull if airlines owe WTC owners over 911
San Diego Union-Tribune - Saturday 13th July, 2013
FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, American Airlines Flight 175 closes in on World Trade Center Tower 2 in New York, just before impact. On Monday, July 15, 2013, a lawsuit commences in New York City that will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in damages for their liability in the ...
LGBT group finds acceptance at evangelical college
The Miami Herald - Saturday 13th July, 2013
When people get more education, they become more productive and help strengthen the entire U.S. economy. So it is discouraging to see that students from wealthy families are increasingly more likely to graduate from college than are those from poor families. This perpetuates inequality from one generation to the next and limits the economic benefits that could come if a wider swath of the ...
Texas Legislature Passes Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks
CNS News - Saturday 13th July, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republicans in the Texas Legislature have passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the ...
Texas Senate Republicans Approve Strict New Limits on Abortions
Slatest - Saturday 13th July, 2013
MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and ...
2nd guilty plea in mail fraud at Lubbock hospital
Associated Press - Saturday 13th July, 2013
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A San Antonio man has pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge in connection with a scheme that cost University Medical Center in Lubbock almost ...
Texas thinks of women as second-class citizens ? if it thinks were citizens at all
The Guardian - Saturday 13th July, 2013
Some Democrats see the abortion row played out in Austin's statehouse as a turning point for Texas liberals. But with the bill now passed by the senate, others warn that life will get even ...
Restrictive Texas abortion bill expected to be challenged in court
Middle East Times - Saturday 13th July, 2013
A hotly contested bill passed by the Texas Senate that contains some of the nation's most restrictive abortion rules will be challenged in court, opponents say. The bill was approved 19-11 along party lines Friday after a debate that drew thousands of supporters and opponents to the capitol, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported Saturday. ...
State of Texas Now a Danger Zone For Women
Common Dreams - Saturday 13th July, 2013
The Texas Senate pushed through a severe anti-abortion bill Friday evening, bringing one of the country's most severe attacks on reproductive rights within inches of being signed into law.The bill advanced despite thousands of pro-choice advocates who filled the capitol Friday to oppose the bill. "Thousands upon thousands of people screamed their faces off for hours and hours filling ...
Metta World Peace nixes NBA for China Arena Football JUL 13
General Sources - Saturday 13th July, 2013
09:40 AM ET 07.13 | Metta World Peace says he wants to continue his playing career in China or try his hand at coaching, and if those don't work there is always Arena Football. The one thing World Peace claims he doesn't want to do is play in the NBA, which would end the idea of the player formerly known ...
Baron Davis I was abducted by aliens JUL 13
General Sources - Saturday 13th July, 2013
Baron Davis says he was "actually abducted by aliens." The basket-case baller told the hosts of "The Champs Podcast" that he crossed into his own personal twilight zone while driving "like two weeks ago. I was, um, on my way from Vegas here to L.A.," he said on the episode that aired Thursday. Davis described being transferred into a "steel thing" inside ...
Texas Senate passes controversial abortion bill
McClatchy - Saturday 13th July, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas - After more than eight hours of debate, the plan to enact some of the nation's most restrictive abortion regulations was approved 19-11 by the Texas Senate late Friday. This issue - which will restrict abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and put in place regulations so strict that only a handful of abortion clinics, including one in Fort Worth, likely will remain - ...
Tampon Gate Texas Senate issues ban on feminine hygiene products
Global Post - Saturday 13th July, 2013
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals activist Jen Huls stands dressed as a tampon outside of Columbia University during a protest October 19, 2004 in New York. (Chris Hondros/AFP/Getty ...
Abortion Rights Activists Plan Challnge To Texas Measure
NPR - Saturday 13th July, 2013
Opponents -- dressed in blue -- and supporters -- wearing orange -- of abortion rights rally in the State Capitol rotunda Friday before the vote on a set of sweeping abortion ...
House GOP passes farm subsidies --- without food stamps
Washington Examiner - Saturday 13th July, 2013
farm bill that was arguably less conservative than the one they voted down in June. What happened? How did the GOP leadership whip rank-and-file members into line, including almost all conservative members? And why did leadership do it? Here's the story, as told by House GOP leadership aides, individual members, and the conservative activists who tried and failed to reform the farm bill: ...
Corpus Christi City Council moves forward with plan to scrap two replica Columbus ships to save third
Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Saturday 13th July, 2013
Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Valerie Britton (left) and Gloria Britton check the replica Columbus ship of the Ni?a, which was docked in the Lawrence Street T-Head on Thursday. The City Council on Tuesday took the first vote needed to let the Columbus Sailing Association remove parts from the Pinta and Santa Maria for repairs to the Ni?a. Saving two of the three ships would ...
Texas abortion law passes despite protests
Channel News Asia - Saturday 13th July, 2013
The Texas senate late Friday approved a bill setting some of the strictest limits on abortion in the United States, just weeks after a filibuster by opposition Democrats dramatically thwarted the ...
Texas passes one of toughest anti-abortion laws in US
Guardian - Saturday 13th July, 2013
abortion bills, but opponents are set to challenge the legisation in federal court.More than a thousand pro-choice and anti-abortion demonstrators packed the state capitol in Austin late on Friday night as senators voted on legislation that has made Texas the focus of nationwide abortion-rights activism.The senate passed House Bill 2 by 19 votes to 11 just before midnight local time. Texas ...
UPDATE 2-Texas passes abortion restriction bill governor certain to sign
Reuters - Saturday 13th July, 2013
Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:56am EDT * Bill bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy * Republican Governor Rick Perry certain to sign * Political battle stirred national debate, filibuster (Adds details on the bill, protests) By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas, July 13 (Reuters) - Texas' Republican-controlled Senate has voted to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, ending a ...
KFC founders suit auctioned for over 20000 dollars in Texas
SINA - Saturday 13th July, 2013
The trademark white suit worn by KFC founder Harland Sanders was sold for 21,510 U.S. dollars at an auction in the U.S. State of Texas Saturday, local media reported. The suit was bought by the president and chief executive of KFC Japan Masao Watanabe, who was one of hundreds of in-person, telephone and online bidders vying for the item, local TV ABC13 reported. Watanabe said he had planned to ...
Texas at the forefront of national push on fetal pain legislation
Deseret News - Saturday 13th July, 2013
Hundreds wait in line to enter the Senate gallery at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, Friday, July 12, 2013. The Texas Senate leader, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, has scheduled a vote for Friday on the same restrictions on when, where and how women may obtain abortions in Texas that failed to become law after a Democratic filibuster and raucous protesters were able to run out the clock on ...
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