Francisca L. Spencer, 97
Source: Acushnet Community News
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 21:44:02 -0700 | political-news
Spencer, age 97, of San Antonio, died Thursday, May 16, 2013. She is survived by her daughters, Denise Spencer, and Eunice Labery; sons, Lucien Spencer and Sean C. Spencer and wife, Elizabeth; grandchildren, Amanda Rice and husband, Anthony Carr, Rebecca...
Legislating in Texas is not all fun and glory
Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 09:21:00 -0700 | political-news
Tell us In 10 days, the 2013 regular session of the Texas Legislature will be history. Some of the most important work of the session is yet to be done. Complex end-of-session deadlines will mix with sleepless nights, but most...
US still pushing to raise money for Expo pavilion
Source: Taiwan News
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-16 10:45:39 -0700 | political-news
After months of struggling to win support from recession-stricken U.S. businesses for a U.S. pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo next year, organizers say they have raised about two-thirds of the $61 million they need.
Jacques Barzun's grandson pens open letter to him in Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Source: HNN
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 07:24:06 -0700 | political-news
Charles Barzun is an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia. Dear Grandfather, Not long after your death on October 25 of last year, friends and relatives wondered whether I might write something about you. They knew that...
2013 San Diego Grand Internationals
Source: Asian Journal
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 12:57:34 -0700 | political-news
Martial Arts Competition held at the San Diego Concourse Golden Hall Saturday, April 27, 2013...Master Thomas Georgian, there were nine martial arts systems competing against each other during the whole day event: Wushu, Taiji, San Sao, Kung-Fu, Kenpo, Hawaiian/Polynesian, Knife...
For elderly in Makati, voting can be tedious but ‘worth it'
Source: Inquirer.net
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-12 19:55:56 -0700 | political-news
Philippines With several flights of stairs between them and their polling precincts, some elderly Makati citizens and their companions could not help but be rankled by the voting process in San Antonio village on Monday...But for some, like 60-year-old Virgilio...
1 vote — the only vote — decides school board race
Source: SF Gate
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-12 09:31:30 -0700 | political-news
Texas (AP) A school board election for a South Texas district has been decided by one vote...The San Antonio Express-News reports ( http://bit.ly/123sgkp ) Christina Mercado has won her race as District 1 representative on the Lytle School District by...
Utah now among top 10 states for immigration prosecutions
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 10:44:55 -0700 | political-news
Utah ranks 10th in immigration prosecutions with 135 cases filed in U.S...The Southern District of Texas in Houston topped the list with 17,022 prosecutions, while the Western District of Texas in San Antonio ranked second with 13,379 prosecutions...Those three courts...
Info sought for missing woman
Source: Pacific Daily News
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 10:29:38 -0700 | political-news
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call police at 475-8615. The Guam Police Department is asking for the public's help to find a woman who went missing Wednesday night...Wednesday at the Golden Motel along Chalan San Antonio...
Blowup between House, Senate leaders stalls Texas budget talks
Source: The Dallas Morning News
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 22:44:27 -0700 | political-news
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands A blow up between the House and Senate's chief budget negotiators has prompted a cooling off period. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, has suspended budget talks, perhaps for as long...
Gun control forces struggle to keep issue alive
Source: SF Gate
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 12:43:26 -0700 | political-news
Kelly Ayotte , Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive the rejected effort to expand background checks to more firearms buyers. With Congress back from a weeklong recess, the bottom...
Texas Senate OKs testing standards overhaul
Source: SF Gate
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 17:03:45 -0700 | political-news
Texas (AP) The Texas Senate on Monday unanimously approved its version of a major high school curriculum overhaul, reducing the number of standardized tests students must pass to graduate from a nation-leading 15 to five while allowing some to earn...
Bud Kennedy: Cinco de Mayo celebrates Texans, Tejanos — and freedom
Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-04 23:50:49 -0700 | political-news
The hero of Mexico's symbolic 1862 Battle of Puebla was a third-generation Texan from a family that was already in San Antonio during the American Revolution...Ignacio Zaragoza's army included hundreds of Tejanos and Americans, including his cousin and Texas Revolution...
Texas Monthly: Revisiting L.B.J.'s Austin, One Address at a Time
Source: The New York Times
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-04 17:53:28 -0700 | political-news
Texas Monthly Revisiting L.B.J.'s Austin, One Address at a Time Neal Douglass/LBJ Library Representative Lyndon B. Johnson, kneeling, at the new Santa Rita Housing Project in 1939. Published: May 4, 2013 Long before Austin became a bustling hub of live...
2 American Airlines passengers fought during flight; 1 arrested when plane landed at D/FW
Source: The Dallas Morning News
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 18:12:43 -0700 | political-news
Two passengers got into a fight aboard an American Airlines jet Tuesday, with one of them allegedly intoxicated and subsequently arrested when the airplane arrived at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Police took the first man hit, Scott Warren Prascher, 33,...
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