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What’s amazing is that Keith has accomplished this growth through good management, with no tax increases and no bond issue — a truly amazing feat
- GoSanAngelo
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I am very pleased with Dean’s decision to join me here in San Angelo
- GoSanAngelo
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The deep sea is the least-explored environment on earth.
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Senate moderates frustrate other Democrats on bill
...Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman .Lieberman and three Democratic moderates — Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska , Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas — agreed to advance debate on the bill despite having reservations about the legislation.... |more
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Senate votes to debate health care overhaul
...care system.After days of indecision, the two final Democratic holdouts - Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana - voted with the rest of the 60 members of their caucus to support a procedural motion to begin debate. Though strictly... |more
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Senate vote under way on 1st test of health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has begun voting on whether to move ahead on a sweeping health care bill.The roll call began with many of the 100 members seated in their chairs and rising to vote. Such formal voting is common with Supreme Court |more
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Health care bill faces a crucial Senate vote
...conditions or drop coverage when someone gets sick.The two holdouts are Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana . A third centrist, Ben Nelson of Nebraska , announced Friday that he'd be supporting his party on the test vote, while... |more
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La. businessman indicted in alleged Ponzi scheme
...ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors — mostly elderly people — out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tickets and a house.A... |more
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Business News, 11/23
...also installed at the meeting. Among them was Lance S. Lacy of San Angelo. Lacy will oversee Region X, which covers Texas and Louisiana. Brooke Hunt, a Realtor from Flower Mound, is the new vice president and liaison to committees. Keith Butler, CEO of Lillian... 18 m ago |more
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Blogging Conservative Granny: How About a Little Inaction from Congress?
...United States purchased more than 800,000 square miles of territory from France for $15 million in an exchange we know as “The Louisiana Purchase.” Last week, in what is being referred to as the New Louisiana Purchase, the leader of the Senate bought a single... 10:26 PM |more
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Bizarre Creatures Inhabit Deep Oceans
...of the deep sea that we assumed were homogenous are actually quite complex," said Robert S. Carney, an oceanographer at Louisiana State University and a lead researcher on the deep seas. Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black... 10:14 PM |more
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36 teams participate in junior league football tournament
...and Sunday 36 junior league football teams participated in an exhibition tournament on the campuses of the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Ouachita Parish Junior High School. Chris Pealer, executive director of the YMCA of Northeast Louisiana which organized... 9:54 PM |more
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Washington Watch for Nov. 23, 2009
Who is the representative from Louisiana’s 26th Congressional District? That’s what members of the state’s delegation in Washington, D.C., last week were asking after The White House put out stimulus data on where the money was spent. Louisiana has |more
