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Ka-ching: Rick Perry's plan for Texa$ universities
There are three things Rick Perry would like to do to the great public universities of Texas, but he can only remember two of them. That’s a joke. You may remember that during a 2012 presidential debate, he started to list three departments of...
Tags: Lobbying, NPR, Education, Teachers, Students
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Republican senators boycott vote on EPA nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday on President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, drawing accusations of obstructionism from Democrats. Republicans on the Senate...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Barbara Boxer, Standards, Environmental Politics
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At NRA convention, both sides of gun debate
HOUSTON — On the morning of the first day of the National Rifle Assn. convention, before the doors opened, scores of visitors lined up outside the convention center, part of what organizers expect will be a record crowd. Among them was Tilman...
Tags: Gun Control, Joe Biden, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America, Johnsburg
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NRA convention gets underway; Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent on tap
HOUSTON -- The National Rifle Assn.’s annual convention begins in earnest Friday in Houston, with leaders who have spent the year defending the group in the wake of mass shootings emboldened by the recent defeat of federal gun control legislation...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Parties and Movements, National Rifle Association of America
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Letters: Narrowing the NRA
Re "Both sides of debate at NRA convention," May 4 When the National Rifle Assn. backed improved background checks on gun buyers in the 1990s, the organization truly was nonpartisan. Time and money have changed that. Witness the lineup of speakers...
Tags: Government, Susan Collins, Mark Kirk, Republican Party, Ted Cruz
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Fertilizer plant blast stuns, shatters Texas town
WEST, Texas — Alicia McCowan had just finished her shift at the Sonic drive-in when the blast erupted nearby, leveling buildings in a wide circle. Above, a mushroom cloud bloomed against a yellow-pink sky. She knew the source — the West...
Tags: Radio Industry, Fertilizer, Plant Openings, Chemical Industry, Walmart
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Republicans turn back effort to change party rules
As members of the Republican National Committee met in Hollywood to debate how to reverse their party's recent losses in presidential campaigns, they narrowly defeated an effort by a Virginia committeeman to undo all the changes to party rules made during...
Tags: Barack Obama, Voting, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Parties and Movements
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In Texas, mourning those on front lines of blast
WEST, Texas — Residents here know the code of sirens, the language of a small-town Texas fire department. As the big fire trucks lumber along, one blast means they're heading to a small blaze; two means a fire drill or meeting. Then things get...
Tags: Fertilizer, Vehicles, Chemical Industry, Services and Shopping, Petroleum Industry
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Rain hampers search for survivors of Texas explosion [Update]
Even as as President Obama pledged federal assistance to the devastated community, morning rainfall was hampering search and rescue efforts Thursday at the site of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, which killed as many as 15 people and...
Tags: Plant Openings, Chemical Industry, Fertilizer, White House, Barack Obama
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Texas explosion: Gov. Perry describes 'absolute devastation'
WEST, Texas -- Authorities here said Friday that the death toll from the fertilizer plant explosion Wednesday night stood at at least 14 people, but they were optimistic that the number of those unaccounted for -- placed at about 60 earlier in the day...
Tags: Regional Authority, Justice System, Government, Emergency Incidents, Politics
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Bob Perry dies at 80; Houston real estate magnate who supported GOP candidates
Bob Perry, a Houston real estate magnate who shunned the limelight while generously bankrolling Republican Party candidates and becoming a force in a new era of lavish spending in American politics, has died. He was 80. Perry died in his sleep...
Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Sheldon Adelson, Scott Walker, George W. Bush
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Utah, Virginia governors visit California to woo businesses
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were in California this week on a whirlwind tour to woo Golden State businesses to expand or relocate to their states. At the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa on Thursday, both state...
Tags: Regional Authority, Bob McDonnell, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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