In Texas raising the spirits of the people may actually mean passing perverse legislation. I am sure bullets will stop any flood on campus. Anything goes in Texas. I wish it was not so, but, dangerous living is the rule of the day.
June 1, 2015
By Creede Newton
...This brought the number (click here) of recovered bodies in Hays County, the district that houses Wimberley, San Marcos (another hard-hit city), and part of the Texas capital, Austin, to eight. There are still six people last seen in Wimberley listed as missing.
“It’s just so difficult for us, because this is a small community,” Susan Myers, a 61-year-old resident of Wimberley, told The Daily Beast while coordinating relief efforts at the Cypress Creek Church. “We’re all neighbors.”
The grisly discoveries came a week after the Blanco River that borders Wimberley rapidly rose to more than 40 feet, taking the community by surprise and levying destruction as a large weather system developed across Central and Southern Texas.
According to a statement issued by Hays County, preliminary estimates place the county-wide cost at $32.7 million. More than 1,200 homes are damaged, and 209 have been destroyed. Hays County expects these numbers to increase.
“I was here for the floods in 1998, and that was horrible. But it was nothing compared to this one,” Myers said....
If the Texas Republican lawmakers share nothing else in common, at least they all subscribe to "The Church of the Gun."
June 1, 2015
By Jessica Glenza
Texas lawmakers (click here) have approved a bill that allows license holders to carry concealed firearms in most college and university buildings in the state.
The governor is expected to allow the bill to become law. The approval comes after fierce opposition from college and university leaders and from outnumbered Texas Democrats.
The regulation will allow concealed-carry permit holders, or CHL licensees, in the state to carry loaded firearms on university and college campuses. Schools may create gun-free zones, but establishing such provisions is complex at best.
Many Democrats and advocacy groups have fought so-called “campus carry” legislation for years in the Texas legislature. At least one group, the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, was established solely to lobby against such laws....
June 1, 2015
By Creede Newton
...This brought the number (click here) of recovered bodies in Hays County, the district that houses Wimberley, San Marcos (another hard-hit city), and part of the Texas capital, Austin, to eight. There are still six people last seen in Wimberley listed as missing.
“It’s just so difficult for us, because this is a small community,” Susan Myers, a 61-year-old resident of Wimberley, told The Daily Beast while coordinating relief efforts at the Cypress Creek Church. “We’re all neighbors.”
The grisly discoveries came a week after the Blanco River that borders Wimberley rapidly rose to more than 40 feet, taking the community by surprise and levying destruction as a large weather system developed across Central and Southern Texas.
According to a statement issued by Hays County, preliminary estimates place the county-wide cost at $32.7 million. More than 1,200 homes are damaged, and 209 have been destroyed. Hays County expects these numbers to increase.
“I was here for the floods in 1998, and that was horrible. But it was nothing compared to this one,” Myers said....
If the Texas Republican lawmakers share nothing else in common, at least they all subscribe to "The Church of the Gun."
June 1, 2015
By Jessica Glenza
Texas lawmakers (click here) have approved a bill that allows license holders to carry concealed firearms in most college and university buildings in the state.
The governor is expected to allow the bill to become law. The approval comes after fierce opposition from college and university leaders and from outnumbered Texas Democrats.
The regulation will allow concealed-carry permit holders, or CHL licensees, in the state to carry loaded firearms on university and college campuses. Schools may create gun-free zones, but establishing such provisions is complex at best.
Many Democrats and advocacy groups have fought so-called “campus carry” legislation for years in the Texas legislature. At least one group, the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, was established solely to lobby against such laws....
