Christmas came early for the Mansfield High School football team — and the players returned the favor.
Gazing at our current economic challenges, there appear to be plenty of reasons to cry out like the captain of the ship in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 19th century poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." As he looked about his becalmed vessel, all he could see was "Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry on Nov. 24 urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to pass a proposed framework that would toughen regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
With the arrival of the holiday shopping season, millions of Texans are expected to purchase prepaid gift cards for friends and family across the state. Easily mailed to far-away loved ones and increasingly easy to purchase, gift cards undoubtedly simplify shopping at a very busy time of year, so they are more popular than ever. According to the National Retail Federation, shoppers nationwide spent an estimated $26.3 billion on gift cards at retailers last holiday season.
My apologies regarding the title of this letter, but I simply couldn’t think of a better title as the holiday season approaches. As a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission, I hear from residents regularly that Mansfield is growing too quickly. We need to slow it down for fear we’ll turn into another indistinguishable Metroplex suburb.
AUSTIN - In the space of three months last summer, the Texas coast suffered punishing blows from three hurricanes: Dolly, Gustav and Ike.
When we moved to Mansfield from South Arlington in the summer of 2000, I suddenly developed a case of hometown fever.
Over the course of the past several weeks, there have been numerous measures aimed at reviving the nation’s struggling economy. Most of these actions are still ongoing, and their success level will not be known for quite some time (although signs of modest progress are around). While several of them have been historic and even unprecedented, at least one has followed the same tack often taken when faced with economic difficulties – lowering interest rates!
AUSTIN — Lawmakers filed more than 500 bills Nov. 10-14 in advance of the 81st session of the Texas Legislature, which convenes Jan. 13.
DALLAS—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made the following statement regarding news reports that the Federal Reserve is refusing to make public critical information surrounding roughly $2 trillion in emergency loans from American taxpayers to troubled financial institutions.
