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Consumers angry about utility rate hike plan
May 11, 2011Consumers are urging state lawmakers to vote against a bill that would eliminate the long-standing utility rate review process.
Read moreObama puts immigration reform back on table
May 11, 2011El Paso Mayor John Cook praised the president's speech as "right on," and added that a comprehensive approach beyond just enforcement makes most sense.
Read moreAt American Islamic banquet, warning about “surveillance society”
May 10, 2011"We now live in a surveillance society," civil liberties attorney Chip Pitts charged, "and the dangerous thing is that [it is being] taken for granted, like water is for fish."
Read moreMississippi flood leaves hundreds homeless in Memphis
May 10, 2011Hundreds of families, most of whom did not have flood insurance, have been added to the already swelling numbers of homeless in Memphis and other parts of Shelby County.
Read moreNew legislation weaponizes Texas classrooms
May 10, 2011The Texas Senate approved, in a 19 to 12 vote, a bill to allow the carrying of concealed handguns on public college campuses.
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