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Federal Budget Cuts May Kill LISD Pre-K
The Lufkin News reports Lufkin School District officials are worrying out loud about the federal funding the district stands to lose when the Federal Budget Control Act goes into effect in January.
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Perrys Show Off Restored Governor’s Mansion
Has it really been four years? It was in 2008 that an arsonist set fire to the historic Texas Governors Mansion across the street from the State Capitol in Austin, but that's history now. The Austin American-Statesman reports the mansion is ready to be the Governor's home again.
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ Gets a Release Date
Steven Spielberg‘s highly-anticipated Abraham Lincoln biopic, ‘Lincoln,’ finally has a release date… four score and seven years from now.
And by that we mean this November. Sorry, we’re really terrible at math.
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Corrigan Searches for New City Manager
The Corrigan Times reports the Corrigan City Council has launched a search for a new City Manager.
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Election 2012 — President Obama Has the Support of Smartphone Users
Many national polls show President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, essentially tied in the upcoming race for the White House. But according to a new survey, there’s at least one segment of the population Obama has mostly locked up: smartphone users.
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NAACP Requires Photo ID to Cover Holder
Here's a national news story that is just dripping with irony, but you won't find it in any mainstream news source.
You have to go to an alternative source outside the mainstream to learn that the NAACP and the Justice Department required local and national news reporters to show two kinds of photo ID's just to get in and cover Attorney General Eric Holder's speech at the NAACP national convention in Houston earlier this week.
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Political Extremists May Sound Mad, But They’re Actually Happier Than Moderates
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Rick Perry Says NO Medicaid Expansion in Texas
If there were any doubts that Governor Rick Perry wants Texas to have nothing to do with President Obama's Health Care overhaul, the Austin American-Statesman reports Perry has cleared the air on that once and for all.