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NPT Tuesday Brief: Snow! And Stormwater! And ... Language?
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News
The snow blew over
by NPT Staff
 Images from the brief snow flurry and wonderful cloudy, rainy day Tuesday. Any guesses as to when the next one hits?
Posted on December 9, 2008 • read more »
Politics
Pickett: It's down to Solomons and Craddick
by Ben Wright
 The speaker candidacy of Rep. Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton (a good friend and the Austin roommate of El Paso’s District 79 Rep. Joe Pickett) is gaining momentum, after his open letter to House parliamentarian Terry Keel calling on him to quit his post on Friday.
Posted on December 9, 2008 • read more »
Opinion
Common ground and the English-only movement
by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca
 The United States is not what it was 200 years ago. It will not be in 200 years what it is now. It does not belong to the English, the Italians, the Irish, the Africans, the Hispanics. It belongs to all of us who are American citizens at this moment in time. Our American patrimony cannot be bought, nor can it be sold.
Posted on December 8, 2008 • read more »
The great Texas tax shift
by state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh
 In Texas today, the American dream is distant. If we do not change course, for the first time in our history, the Texas generation of tomorrow will be less prosperous than the generation of today. At the heart of our future is a tax system created by and for the wealthiest Texans.
Posted on December 9, 2008 • read more »
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