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Anna Asks Voters for $60 Million in Street Bonds That Would Cost $98 Million to Repay
Proposition A would fund Rosamond, Mantua and other road projects. The city's list totals $51.15 million, and the estimated bill tops $98 million.
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More Than 30 Million Americans Have Already Voted. The Early Vote Is Not a Forecast, It Is a Reminder to Show Up.
Tens of millions of Americans voted early ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Here is what the early-vote numbers show, what they do not, and why your vote still matters.
Pentagon Plans for Bases to Run 90 Days Without the Grid. Preparing Is Wise, but Show Taxpayers the Bill.
The Pentagon's FORTRESS initiative aims to keep major U.S. bases running for 90 days if war knocks out the grid and supply chains. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
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Anna Asks Voters for $60 Million in Street Bonds That Would Cost $98 Million to Repay
Proposition A would fund Rosamond, Mantua and other road projects. The city's list totals $51.15 million, and the estimated bill tops $98 million.
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Clocks Fall Back Sunday, Right in the Middle of Texas Deer Crash Season. What the Research Says
Texas logs close to 8,000 reported animal-vehicle crashes a year, most at night on rural roads from October through December. The end of daylight saving time puts more drivers on the road in the dark just as deer are on the move.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Sandhill Cranes Are Coming to Texas for Winter. Here Is Where to Hear Them
About 700,000 sandhill cranes winter in Texas, from the Panhandle to the coast. Here is how to know one, when they peak and where to go, from Muleshoe to Aransas County.
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Texas Children's Hospital Opens a Detransition Clinic Under Its Settlement With the State. Here Is What It Offers
The Houston hospital's clinic, required by a May settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton, offers free care for five years to patients who received gender-transition interventions and want to reverse course.
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Angleton Has 5,700 Water Lines of Unknown Material. Staff Want $230,880 to Find the Lead
Replacing every unknown line could cost $11.5 million. The city wants computer modeling and meter checks to narrow the list first.
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Carbon Monoxide Kills More Than 400 Americans a Year. Check Your Alarms When the Clocks Fall Back.
The CDC says more than 400 Americans die each year from unintentional, non-fire carbon monoxide poisoning. Here are the symptoms and the steps that protect a household.
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Climb for the View on the Trails at Davis Mountains State Park in Fort Davis
Davis Mountains State Park near Fort Davis has trails from a 0.3-mile stroll to a 700-foot climb. Here are TPWD's distances, safety tips and closure dates.
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Space Heaters and Stoves Cause Most Home Heating Fire Deaths. Prudence This Winter Costs Little.
Heating equipment is a leading cause of deadly house fires. NFPA and U.S. Fire Administration figures, and their advice, as the heating season begins.
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Prosper Approves Zoning for $2 Billion Venice-Style District With Up to 4,400 Homes
The Marco would bring a boat-sized lagoon, office towers, hotels and up to 4,400 homes to the tollway and U.S. 380. Incentive deals come next.
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Consumer Confidence Rebounds in October as Gas Prices Ease. One Good Month Is Not a Recovery.
Consumer confidence climbed to 91.7 in October as gas prices eased, the Conference Board said, but worries about food, fuel and inflation remain.
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Trump's Cheaper Beef Import Plan Falls Short as Prices Stay High. A Cattle Market Will Not Bend in 90 Days.
The administration's 90-day plan to import lean beef trimmings at a lower tariff is lagging, economists say much of it would have come anyway, and ranchers oppose it.
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All Saints' Day Is Nov. 1. Born in an Age of Martyrs, It Still Calls Christians to Run the Race.
All Saints' Day falls on Sunday, Nov. 1. Here is how the feast began in the age of Roman persecution and how it came to be observed on Nov. 1.
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Two Catholic Bishops Regret White House Prayer Photo With Trump. Pray for Rulers, but Never Become a Prop.
Two bishops who prayed with President Trump on Oct. 22 say the White House released photos and video without permission and turned the meeting into a political moment.
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Praha's Painted Church Has Drawn the Faithful for Generations
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in tiny Praha is perhaps the best-known of Texas's painted churches. Here is the story of the Bohemian parish and the Swiss painter behind it.
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Churches Will Pray for the Persecuted on Nov. 1 and 8. Thirty Years On, Remember Them as Bound With Them.
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church marks 30 years on Nov. 1 and 8 under the theme "Do You Know Our Suffering?"
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Texas Children's Hospital Opens a Detransition Clinic Under Its Settlement With the State. Here Is What It Offers
The Houston hospital's clinic, required by a May settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton, offers free care for five years to patients who received gender-transition interventions and want to reverse course.
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Pentagon Plans for Bases to Run 90 Days Without the Grid. Preparing Is Wise, but Show Taxpayers the Bill.
The Pentagon's FORTRESS initiative aims to keep major U.S. bases running for 90 days if war knocks out the grid and supply chains. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
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Prosper Approves Zoning for $2 Billion Venice-Style District With Up to 4,400 Homes
The Marco would bring a boat-sized lagoon, office towers, hotels and up to 4,400 homes to the tollway and U.S. 380. Incentive deals come next.
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Past Democratic Primary Voters Edge Republicans in Texas Early Vote. 2.1 Million GOP Regulars Have Not Shown Up Yet
After seven days of early voting, Texans with a Democratic primary history made up 35% of ballots to 33% for Republican primary voters, a first in one analyst's memory. The GOP's answer may lie with 2.1 million regulars who have yet to vote.
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The History of San Augustine, Texas
San Augustine, Texas (ZIP 75972) grew up beside a Spanish mission the Ais people refused to live in. Its founders bought the town site for ninety dollars in 1833 and laid it out in what may have been the first street grid in Texas.
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Consumer Confidence Rebounds in October as Gas Prices Ease. One Good Month Is Not a Recovery.
Consumer confidence climbed to 91.7 in October as gas prices eased, the Conference Board said, but worries about food, fuel and inflation remain.
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University Park Voters Weigh a Tax Increase for Four Officers and Two Firefighters
Proposition A would lift the rate to $0.220055 to fund police, fire, a pension fix and parking technology. A no vote means a lower fallback rate.
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Trump and Talarico Hold Dueling Rallies a Few Miles Apart in Lubbock. Here Is What Each Side Said
Thousands packed the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center for President Trump and Ken Paxton while James Talarico drew an overflow crowd across town. A look at both rallies in the Republican heartland.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Sandhill Cranes Are Coming to Texas for Winter. Here Is Where to Hear Them
About 700,000 sandhill cranes winter in Texas, from the Panhandle to the coast. Here is how to know one, when they peak and where to go, from Muleshoe to Aransas County.
