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South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Some West End homeowners, worried about the city’s plans for beach-front properties acquired through a federal buyout program, want the city to restrict what it does with the newly public land in their neighborhoods. As part of its agreement to buy 64 hurricane-damaged houses under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, the city asked those property owners to obtain releases from the homeowners...
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South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The Galveston Open Government Project has issued a legal challenge to the city of Galveston, saying the concentration of housing units on the island violates federal law. The group, which has contested the Galveston Housing Authority’s plans to rebuild 569 units destroyed by Hurricane Ike, said public housing units would have to be scattered throughout the county to comply...
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Desicritics (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... well what better chance? Initially I had hoped I could go to Houston, but later settled for just Galveston; something better than nothing, huh? Well, although there wasn't much to do ashore, atleast it was a break. Tuesday morning, we were all set to board the helicopter, but the weather was all set to play spoilsport! Just when we had given up hope of the helo coming, a radio message announced...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
GALVESTON, Texas, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Galveston homeowners whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Ike can now apply for assistance from the city's new Disaster Recovery Housing Program - a voluntary program designed to help repair damage and, when necessary, reconstruct homes. All eligible homeowners are encouraged to apply.
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Defense Industry Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Houston-Galveston Navigation Channel Map (click to enlarge) Weston Solutions in Houston, TX received a $23.2 million firm-fixed-price task order under a multiple award task order contract... [summary]
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
GALVESTON — Astros pitcher Brandon Backe and three others will be tried before a Galveston Municipal Court jury on charges of interfering with a police officer in connection with a wedding celebration stormed by 30 officers last year, a city spokeswoman said today.
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ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Crews respond to explosion, fire at Houston area-plant; no immediate reports of injuries Texas - United States - Metro Areas - Houston-Galveston - Houston
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
The Galveston County District Attorney's Office dropped resisting arrest and other criminal charges against Brandon Backe and three other wedding guests in May, but that left misdemeanor charges of interfering with a police officer.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Astros pitcher Brandon Backe and three others will be tried before a Galveston Municipal Court jury on charges of interfering with a police officer in connection with a wedding celebration stormed by 30 officers last year, a city spokeswoman said today.
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Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... write that “the current legislation should be opposed.” Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, and Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City-- who respectively chair the bishops’ committees on domestic justice, pro-life activities, and migration-- noted: The bill currently before the Senate allows the HHS Secretary to mandate...
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Donna Alward (Free subscription) | yesterday
... In my spare time I enjoy traveling. From Hawaii, to California, to Florida, to the Caribbean, to Galveston, Texas. If there’s a beach, I’m there. I also love spending time with friends and family, especially three adorable grandkids. I love writing romance and sold my first novel, Last Resort: Marriage, to Harlequin American on Friday the 13th, June 2008. How’s that for...
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Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
The chalkboard reads "Baby Pirate College Fund" Not Cinderella. Galveston's next mayor Joe Jaworski on horseshit patrol. The Elissa's mainmast and sails. Some of Jean Lafitte's crew . More here , courtesy our friend Lisa D.
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Ask or Answer. (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... entrepreneur’s and governments to cash in. Every year, going back as long as you wish, The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is to date the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States, In the eastern United States, the Winter of 1982-'83 was the warmest in 25 years, The 1922 Swatow Typhoon was a devastating tropical cyclone that caused thousands of deaths in the Chinese city...
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Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
"Dickens descendant helps Strand festival’s revival" : The London friends of best-selling British author Lucinda Hawksley could not understand why she suddenly decided to travel to what they considered an small, obscure provincial hamlet in Texas. “They looked at me like I was mad,” Hawksley recalled in an interview. Hawksley is making her first trip to Galveston's...
