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Record number of hungry knocking on CISC’s doors
Angelina County’s largest food bank has reached its limit and for the first time has had to turn people away.
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EDITORIAL: Democratic Primary
Was Sen. Barack Obama’s stunning performance Tuesday in North Carolina and Indiana enough to convince Sen. Hillary Clinton that she cannot win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination?
Apparently not. Clinton and her supporters continue to say they will fight all the way to the August convention and on to the White House. That bravado flies in the face of the delegate math that strongly favors Obama. And those numbers grow stronger as more superdelegates, who will decide the nominee, commit to Obama.
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Carthage alcohol vote gains support from Lufkin
LONGVIEW — A second Lufkin business has contributed money in support of alcohol sales in Carthage.
Brookshire Brothers joined Polk Oil Co. with its $14,083 contribution April 25 to the Carthage Citizens for Better Business, according to campaign committee reports filed Thursday with the Panola County Elections Office. Full story.
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EDITORIAL: Bad Harvest
Congress is prepared to pass a bill that would drive up food prices for consumers, harm the environment, worsen the global food crisis, upset trade agreements and cost taxpayers a ton of money.
It’s a five-year farm bill costing upwards of $280 billion.
The bill now in a House-Senate conference committee either needs to be drastically reduced or scrapped. If passed, it deserves a veto.
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City not trashing recycling program
More than 1,000 residents had opted in to Lufkin’s new voluntary recycling program as of Thursday afternoon, a city official said.
Last month the recycling center announced changes in its recycling program. Under the new program, only those residents who choose to recycle will be provided with the blue recycling carts.
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Electric idea: Huntington man takes gas prices out of the equation by powering his Chevy pickup with batteries
Mack Darnell, a retired Texas Forest Service employee, wasted no time after he retired in 2004. He began working morning to evening on woodworking, painting and other projects.
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EDITORIAL: Brady’s Bill
Some people want to make the Big Thicket more of a big deal. We think it’s a grand idea.
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Lufkin police investigate death reports at dialysis facility
Lufkin police investigators were called out to DaVita Lufkin Dialysis Center Monday to help investigate “an unusual spike in deaths and life-threatening complications to patients undergoing dialysis,” said a LPD spokesman.
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Dog stayed with boy until he was rescued
The two sisters screamed the little boy’s name as they walked through the woods. Both were near hysterics early Sunday morning. After ten hours of searching the women began to lose hope of ever finding the 6-year-old boy.
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Report: Clemens had relationship with Mindy McCready
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported. Full story.
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Congressman introduces bill to expand the Big Thicket
Congressman Kevin Brady, of The Woodlands, introduced a bill over the weekend, H.R. 5891, to expand the Big Thicket National Preserve by as much as 100,000 acres, doubling the area of the preserve and allowing more public recreational use and additional protection. The bill especially targets land that will connect the nine land units and six water corridors of the current preserve, according to a release from the Texas Conservation Alliance. Full story.
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Rebates start landing in bank accounts: How will we spend?
Tax rebates have begun dropping into bank accounts, but in this economy, gas and groceries may trump a high-end TV, a fancy dress or a new sofa — making the checks less of an economic jump-start than the government hoped for.
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EDITORIAL: Texas roads
“It is an abdication of responsibility.”
That’s what Gov. Rick Perry thinks of the possibility that the Texas Legislature might again stand in the way of his efforts to privatize the construction of toll roads across Texas.
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Local drivers, businesses say they are feeling effects of gas at $3.50 a gallon and diesel at $4
Local drivers are reeling from $3.50-a-gallon unleaded gasoline and $4-a-gallon diesel.
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EDITORIAL: Hidden Costs
In the well-meaning rush to produce alternative fuels as a way to reduce oil imports, Congress went overboard subsidizing ethanol made from corn.
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EDITORIAL: Benefit Rodeo
This year’s Angelina Benefit Rodeo could be one of the best yet.
The annual event begins at 7 tonight at the George H. Henderson Jr. Exposition Center, and a lot of things are working in the rodeo’s favor this year: The weather looks like it’s going to cooperate — it’ll be a little warm, if anything — and the rodeo has a record number of cowboys and cowgirls entering the competition. And instead of a dog-and-pony show, the specialty act this year is a freestyle motocross exhibition team that will come close to scraping the ceiling of the expo center.
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Zavalla school superintendent resigns her post
The Zavalla school board voted Tuesday night to accept the resignations of Superintendent Kathy Ray and board member Carryl Carrell.
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EDITORIAL: Shield Laws
When Sen. John McCain said last week that he would vote for federal legislation to protect journalists’ confidential sources, it was a welcome sign of support for a stalled proposal.
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Rock of the Ages: Workers remove historic rock wall on U.S. 59; part of it will be moved to City Hall
Dust was sent shooting into the air over U.S. Highway 59 as construction workers tore down the remnants of a Lufkin landmark. Amid the upheaval, members of the Texas Forest Service were dodging heavy machinery trying to capture the final images of the historical feature.
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Sweet sorrow: Lufkin’s April Didrikson and her customers will soon be parting ways as she heads for adventures in New York, Paris and closes her popular bakery
Sweet sorrow: Lufkin’s April Didrikson and her customers will soon be parting ways as she heads for adventures in New York, Paris and closes her popular bakery. Full story
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Nation’s economic woes hit some local companies harder than others
Many larger industries and businesses remain strong, but smaller businesses have taken a hit from the economic problems affecting the rest of the country, according to some local small business owners.
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Interesting article - FYI both options failed by huge margins. The sales tax revenue was one angle that was stressed during the race here but Carthage sales tax revenue has increased every year for the past 5 years without alcohol. Voters decided it. That’s
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