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In the News (Sat 14 Nov 09)

  
  Impact Texas.
Impact had been a 20 acre poultry farm owned by a family named Perkins.
Impact wrote a chapter of it’s own in the history of dry-wet politics in Texas.
A long lime resident of the "greater Impact area" named Jack Sharp has purchased a ten acre track from Mr Perkins which includes the main street, and the buildings on either side of Impact Drive.
www.texasescapes.com /TexasTowns/Impact-Texas.htm   (329 words)

  
 Impact of a Smoking Ban on Restaurant and Bar Revenues --- El Paso, Texas, 2002
To assess whether the El Paso smoking ban affected restaurant and bar revenues, the Texas Department of Health (TDH) and CDC analyzed sales tax and mixed-beverage tax data during the 12 years preceding and 1 year after the smoking ban was implemented.
To study the impact of the El Paso smoking ban on all sectors of the local restaurant and bar industry, TDH and CDC obtained quarterly sales tax reports and monthly mixed-beverage tax receipts from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Assessment of the impact of a 100% smoke-free ordinance on restaurant sales---West Lake Hills, Texas, 1992--1994.
www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5307a2.htm   (1492 words)

  
  Handbook of Texas Online:
Impact, north of Abilene, voted incorporation in 1960 as the only wet town in dry Taylor County.
The population of Impact in 1970 was sixty-one.
The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/II/hni5.html   (199 words)

  
 Federation for American Immigration Reform: Immigration Impact: Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
About 4.8 million people in Texas are “immigrant stock” (the Census Bureau term for immigrants and their children), or about 27 percent of the state’s population, which is above the national average of 20 percent.
Texas traffic is growing so quickly that even if public transit use were to double, the gain would be canceled out by population growth in as little as three months, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Texas lost a total of 1.2 million agricultural acres to development between 1992 and 1997,almost double the rate of loss during the previous ten years.
www.fairus.org /site/PageServer?pagename=research_research79e6   (2073 words)

  
 e-Texas Recommendations
While the impact of any one mandate may be imperceptible, the cumulative impact of dozens can significantly affect costs, and most states now have between 30 and 40 mandates.
Recent testimony before an interim Texas legislative committee on mandates revealed that actuaries usually do not estimate the cost of individual mandates in advance, unless they are expected to significantly increase costs.
In Texas, the Baylor study, referenced in Exhibit 1, estimated that mandates add slightly more than 17 percent to the cost of premiums and that wages for employees with traditional insurance coverage are 3 percent lower than they would be without mandates.
www.window.state.tx.us /etexas2001/recommend/ch08/hhs05.html   (1918 words)

  
 IMPACT - Texas Population   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The 1990 population data were obtained from the Texas Department of Health Bureau of State Health Data and Policy Analysis and were analyzed by the Texas Cancer Data Center.
Hispanics represented 25.5 percent of the 1990 population of Texas.
Among the older segment of the Texas population, cancer awareness programs encouraging healthy habits and early detection practices should be emphasized.
www.tcc.state.tx.us /impact/popchar.html   (257 words)

  
 Medical Malpractice - Impact of Texas Liability Limits
You asked for the impact of the medical malpractice liability limits imposed by Texas HB 4 (2003 Regular Session) on: (1) the number of companies writing the insurance in Texas, (2) Texas medical malpractice insurance rates, and (3) the number of physicians practicing in Texas.
Texas insureds purchasing malpractice insurance from an admitted insurer are protected by the state’s Guaranty Fund in the event the insurer becomes insolvent.
Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) is the largest writer of medical malpractice insurance in Texas with $ 189,000,000 in written premiums.
www.cga.ct.gov /2004/rpt/2004-R-0918.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Videos | Shop Texas Parks and Wildlife
Texas: The State of Water is an hour-long program that examines in-depth the present state of water resources in our fast growing state.
Many Texas caves contain critical habitat for endangered species, serve as repositories for ground water supplies and house spectacular formations that are tens of thousands of years old.
Texas is recognized the world over as home to some of the most impressive Indian Pictographs in North America.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /business/shop/videos   (745 words)

  
 THE SMALLEST TOWN IN TEXAS?
A letter, from the Chamber of Commerce of another Texas community allegedly called "Impact, Texas" has been sent to the Register, claiming that their town is the smallest in the Lone Star state...not our own.
Perkins flatly denied that Impact was the smallest town in Texas.
Round Top, Texas is a one-of-a-kind town because of the special people who spent their lives forging it into a secure home for their children.
www.rtis.com /reg/roundtop/smalltex.htm   (1495 words)

  
 Texas Impact | people of faith working for justice
Representatives of Texas Impact and Methodist Healthcare Ministries (MHM) today said faith communities remain completely united in their support for restoration of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and encouraged lawmakers to reach a swift compromise on a key eligibility provision that is stalling consideration of CHIP reform legislation.
Texas Impact released a statement today commending Senator Florence Shapiro of Plano for hosting Imam Dr. Yusuf Kavakci to offer the opening prayer in the Texas Senate on April 4.
Texas Interfaith Power and Light (TXIPL) is a nonprofit religious education organization that helps congregations of all faiths in Texas take action to reduce global warming and air pollution through energy conservation and renewable energy strategies.
www.texasimpact.com   (1383 words)

  
 MD-2 Texas Lions - MERL/Impact Team Archive Page
Be an active part of the Impact Team and let your Governor know that you are interested in taking a working role in the development of a new club in or near your own community.
Each District Governor was asked to appoint an Impact Team Leader for their district to work with the members of the MERLO team to coordinate their efforts and to focus on New Club Extension.
The workshop is designed to elicit open discussion from all in attendance and to provide training materials that can be taken back to the respective districts to train locally and to prepare the local districts for the development needed to achieve the individual goals they set for the extension of New Clubs.
www.texaslions.org /merlarchive.html   (1650 words)

  
 The Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church
Through issues, education, advocacy training and grassroots organizing, Texas IMPACT gives you the information and skills you need to be an effective voice for freedom, justice and economic opportunity for all people.
Texas IMPACT holds historic positions on many social policy issues that reflect consensus positions of mainstream religious traditions.
Texas IMPACT and the community of faith spoke up loudly for restoring the program and some progress was made.
www.nwtxconf.org /page_print.asp?PKValue=777   (735 words)

  
 CHIP Action Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Texas leads the nation in uninsured children-we are so out of step with the norm that our drastic uninsured rates skew the statistics for the entire U.S. About 12 percent of American children were uninsured for at least part of 2002, compared to more than 22 percent of Texas children.
The following summary is taken from the executive summary of "Children’s Medicaid and SCHIP in Texas: Tracking the Impact of Budget Cuts" by Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Public Policy Priorities and Molly O’Malley of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
According to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, there are more than $900 million available in the state treasury that could be used to restore CHIP and other social service cuts.
www.texasimpact.com /Pages/chip_home.htm   (1119 words)

  
 Urge Your Legislator to Stop the Coal Rush! | Texas Impact
Texas already leads the nation in global warming emissions—the emissions from just the proposed new coal plants would more than offset all the global warming emissions reductions California recently adopted.
Texas air is already so polluted that more than half of Texans live in areas where the air fails to meet federal minimum health-based standards.
Texas has more renewable energy potential than any other state in the country—Texas’ renewable energy sources could provide enough power to meet 40 percent of US demand if they were developed.
texasimpact.org /stopthecoalrush   (880 words)

  
 Impact, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Impact is a town in Taylor County, Texas, United States.
Impact is located at 32°30′2″N, 99°44′41″W (32.500573, -99.744790)
The Town of Impact is served by the Abilene Independent School District.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Impact,_Texas   (359 words)

  
 Texas Frontal Impact Collision Lawsuit News and Resources - Find Texas Trial Lawyers and Attorneys with Experience in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lucero was the driver and Garcia was a passenger in a westbound 1988 Cadillac that collided with a 1998 Chevrolet pickup traveling east in the westbound lanes according to the...
A NSON Texas A car driven by an 18-year-old careened around a curve and plowed head-on into a van killing her and four people in the other vehicle including three children.
PT Five killed in head-on collision in Texas THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANSON Texas A car driven by an 18-year-old careened around a curve and plowed head-on into a van killing her...
texas.injuryboard.com /view.cfm/Topic=71   (215 words)

  
 Trans-Texas Highway Threatens Texas’ Inshore Fisheries
Interstate 69 Texas, a key component of the project, will cut a quarter-mile-wide swath of asphalt, rails and utility lines across the grasslands of the western coastal plain.
Many of these anglers are attracted to Texas’ shallow water which supports world-class redfish and seatrout fisheries, as well as a recovering tarpon fishery.
Texas’ bays and estuaries, according to McKinney, provide for an industry worth at least $2.5 billion each year.
www.shallowwaterangler.com /conservation/050818   (679 words)

  
 AOPA Online - Large Presidential TFR to impact Texas pilots
The TFR impacts 14 public-use airports and an additional 22 private airports.
Flight training, pattern practice, and practice instrument approaches are not authorized, creating an impact on flight schools and FBOs throughout the region.
AOPA has been told that flight service stations throughout the Southwest region have been given guidance on how to assist pilots who are unable to contact other ATC facilities on the ground, including information on who they may contact for squawk codes prior to departure.
www.aopa.org /whatsnew/newsitems/2002/02-3-149x.html   (338 words)

  
 More wild hogs can adversely impact Texas habitat
One thing is for certain, as Texas' undomesticated hog numbers pass the one million mark, their popularity as a sporting animal is increasing as is their impact on the surrounding environment.
The animal's preferred habitat is similar to that of a white-tailed deer, and due to their expansive diet, in lean years they have a marked advantage on many native species in terms of food sources.
However, a recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department study in the Uvalde area involving the examination of hog stomach contents yielded very little proof that would support the contention that the animals are substantially affecting quail populations through predation.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/100597/014-7983.htm   (842 words)

  
 Impact Texas Process Servers - ServeNow.com
Service of process is the delivery of these Texas legal documents such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, orders to show cause, writs and other court documents.
The Impact Texas process servers on ServeNow.com offer a number of services related to civil procedure and service of process aside from just legal document delivery in Impact.
Impact Process Servers make daily trips to County Courts, Texas County Clerks, Impact Municipal Courts, Impact Criminal Courts, Texas Supreme Courts and Texas Courts of Appeals.
www.serve-now.com /process-server/Texas/Impact   (416 words)

  
 Trans-Texas Corridor: FAQs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Construction cannot begin until the federally required environmental studies are completed.
The two-phase process is similar for both TTC elements under consideration: Oklahoma to Mexico/Gulf Coast (TTC-35) and Northeast Texas to Mexico (I-69/TTC).
The first phase, which began in early 2004, involves study areas 20-100 miles wide that will be narrowed down during the process.
www.keeptexasmoving.com /faqs/when_begin.aspx   (450 words)

  
 Faith Working for Justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
to be a voice of religious social concern to the Texas Legislature.
Texas Impact staff will present three workshops at "Always the Body of Christ … Living the Faith Day by Day,” the Annual Equipping the Saints Event sponsored by the Congregations of the Victoria Conference, ELCA, Saturday, March 4.
Equipping the Saints is an invitation to exploring the depths of Christian faith, encouraging personal and spiritual growth, and applying the Scriptures to today’s issues.
www.texasimpact.com /Pages/events.html   (211 words)

  
 ACTIONS and DECISIONS; 77TH Texas Legislature –
In 1997 the Texas House had forced the Senate to accept a provision in SB1 that established that any water right acquired for the purpose of transferring water out of one river basin to another would be junior to that of any other water right in the basin of origin.
While compact waste from Texas, Maine, and Vermont is expected to be approximately 2.7 million cubic feet over the 35-year lifespan of the compact, estimates on the volume for DOE waste reach into the hundreds of millions of cubic feet over the next ten years.
Thanks to HB 1927, Texas is the first state in the nation to ban the installation or reinstallation of asbestos in public buildings.
texas.sierraclub.org /TexasLegislature/EIS/eis_entire.html   (18399 words)

  
 University of Texas at Austin Has Annual Economic Impact of $7.4 billion on State Economy, Study Finds
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin’s annual economic impact on the state of Texas is $7.4 billion, according to a new study conducted by the university’s Bureau of Business Research.
The university’s greatest impact, however, may be as an economic stimulator, thanks to its large research enterprise.
Discoveries made at UT Austin help stimulate the Texas economy when companies are created to commercialize the discoveries or when they are licensed to existing companies.
www.mccombs.utexas.edu /news/pressreleases/econ-impact.asp   (1053 words)

  
 National 4-H Shooting Sports Foundation
This project is designed to determine the impact that Texas 4-H shooting sports has on its youth and the State of Texas using research from a study done 1991 and another study done in 2002.
This study uses existing data from two surveys that were completed in 1991 and 2002 at Texas 4-H shooting sports state competition(s).
6.) The state of Texas is spending close to $55,000 per year to keep one juvenile delinquent housed in a correctional facility when it cost $4,000 a year to participate in 4-H shooting sports.
www.4-hshootingsports.org /Impact.html   (293 words)

  
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A new study of the economic impact of the University of Texas System's 15 institutions on the state of Texas shows a multi-billion dollar return on the state's investment in higher education.
The combined employment impact of all 15 institutions on their host regions was 215,500 jobs.
During the next six years, UT institutions are projected to spend an estimated $5 billion on construction projects, and with additional expenditures resulting from those purchased, the combined impact of that construction will be $7.7 billion.
www.utsystem.edu /news/2005/EcoImpact-Study03-09-05.htm   (706 words)

  
 Texas Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Texas Impact is signed up to work from 7 to 9 p.m.
She also had Impact's only hit (a very nice bunt) in the first Riptide game.
was the only Impact player to stay perfect defensively all weekend, and had two hits while pitching five outstanding innings (with no walks) in the championship game Sunday afternoon.
eteamz.active.com /texasimpact/index.cfm   (680 words)

  
 Morther can't blow away impact of Texas teens
ABILENE--Even a West Texas blue norther didn't put a chill on the enthusiasm and endeavors of more than 600 Acteens at the IMPACT conference at Hardin-Simmons University the first weekend in March.
Row, in her first year to direct the conference as a staffer of Texas WMU, is a veteran of such events.
She attended IMPACT for the past eight years as parti-cipant, group leader, consultant and now staff member responsible for planning the event.
www.baptiststandard.com /2002/3_18/print/impact.html   (472 words)

  
 Wired 11.02: Deep Impact
Unfortunately for Texas, funding for the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider was canceled in 1993, and hundreds of people like Teplitz suddenly found a collider-shaped hole in their careers.
The behavior of the bits of universe that astronomers can see - the spinning of galaxies, for example - convinces them that there must be a lot of stuff out there they can't see, invisible remnants of creation that outweigh all the visible stars and galaxies.
Since the demise of the Texas collider, attempts to identify this "dark matter," or at least to observe its effects, have become something of a boom industry.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.02/matter.html   (1103 words)

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