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TexasTowelie's JournalCNN to hold Rio Grande Valley town hall with Beto O'Rourke
CNN will hold a town hall with Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke on Oct. 18 in the Rio Grande Valley, four days before early voting begins.
The town hall will be 60 minutes long, and final details on location, time and audience are being finalized. This will come two days after O’Rourke and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz complete their third debate. That third debate will be at a studio in San Antonio on Oct. 16. The topics will be domestic and foreign policy, and the format will include podiums, at least one moderator and a 120-person audience.
The second debate will be in Dallas on Sept. 30 and the first debate will be on Friday in Dallas. Between now and October’s CNN visit, O’Rourke will be in South Texas on Sunday with Julian and Joaquin Castro.
Those could be O’Rourke’s final two trips to the Valley before Election Day, which various polls have as a single-digit race. Because of the tight race for a state that’s reliably red, national media has been traveling to the state regularly.
Read more: https://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_a007337c-bc43-11e8-b194-b716c22aaf8d.html
Note: This article was published in the McAllen Monitor prior to the debate on Friday evening.
Texas company recalls 690 pounds of ready-to-eat beef jerky
EL CAMPO — A South Texas company has recalled nearly 700 pounds (317.52 kilograms) of beef jerky after regulators say a consumer reporting finding hard metal in a product.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant in El Campo recalled about 690 pounds of ready-to-eat teriyaki beef jerky.
The 4-ounce (113.4-gram) items were produced Aug. 9 for Texas retailers. The plastic pouches say "Buc-ee's Hill Country brand teriyaki beef jerky, made in Texas from solid strips of beef, ready to eat."
The label says best by 8-9-2019, lot code 220-272 and "EST. 48213" inside the USDA inspection mark.
Read more: https://www.themonitor.com/news/state/article_8b8b0c9e-bdc3-11e8-9750-9fa6f84c3255.html
El Campo is 14 miles away from where I live. Thank goodness I haven't been to Buc-ee's lately.
Beto-Cruz debate: O'Rourke's 'true to form' quip to Ted Cruz inspires Amazon t-shirt
It was the debate quip heard round the Texas-centric Twitterverse Friday night.
“True to form” seemed to trend online the moment it shot out of U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s mouth and across the auditorium at SMU.
The retort eclipsed Sen. Ted Cruz’s attempt to offer up something admirable about his opponent that began with praise for O’Rourke’s passion but ended with Cruz comparing his challenger to Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Here’s what happened during the Texas Senate debate
Moderators of the debate said they wanted to end on a positive note.
They asked each candidate to say something they admired about their opponent. O'Rourke spoke first.
Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2018/09/22/beto-cruz-debate-beto-orourke-true-form-quip-ted-cruz-inspires-amazon-t-shirt-trends-twitter/1391563002/
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Jewish editor jailed for not appearing in court on subpoena dated for Yom Kippur
GEORGE WEST — William J. Gibbs Jr., editor of The Progress newspaper, spent a couple of hours in the Live Oak County Jail Friday after not appearing in court on an order summoning him to take the stand on a major Jewish holiday.
He was ordered to be arrested on a writ of attachment issued by District Judge Janna Whatley when he was unable to attend a hearing on the change of venue matter in a capital murder case.
Initially Gibbs was to have testified at the hearing in Whatley’s court on Wednesday.
However, he informed the office of District Clerk Melanie Matkin, defense attorney Michele Ochoa and Assistant District Attorney Tiffany McWilliams that he would be unable to attend the hearing that day because it was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Read more: https://www.mysoutex.com/beeville_bee_picayune/news/jewish-editor-jailed-for-not-appearing-in-court-on-subpoena/article_784d8064-bde9-11e8-a776-7f539fb78882.html
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
Jewish editor jailed for not appearing in court on subpoena dated for Yom Kippur
GEORGE WEST — William J. Gibbs Jr., editor of The Progress newspaper, spent a couple of hours in the Live Oak County Jail Friday after not appearing in court on an order summoning him to take the stand on a major Jewish holiday.
He was ordered to be arrested on a writ of attachment issued by District Judge Janna Whatley when he was unable to attend a hearing on the change of venue matter in a capital murder case.
Initially Gibbs was to have testified at the hearing in Whatley’s court on Wednesday.
However, he informed the office of District Clerk Melanie Matkin, defense attorney Michele Ochoa and Assistant District Attorney Tiffany McWilliams that he would be unable to attend the hearing that day because it was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Read more: https://www.mysoutex.com/beeville_bee_picayune/news/jewish-editor-jailed-for-not-appearing-in-court-on-subpoena/article_784d8064-bde9-11e8-a776-7f539fb78882.html
Cross-posted in the Jewish Group.
7.6 percent decline puts University of Montana enrollment at lowest in 25 years
The University of Montana saw a 7.6 percent drop in enrollment from last fall to this fall, according to its latest census enrollment report.
It marks the eighth consecutive year of decline for the university, and the first time enrollment has dropped below 11,000 since 1993 — even as enrollment at the system's other flagship, Montana State University, is projected to increase beyond its enrollment of 16,703 last fall.
UM has seen a 28.5 percent drop in enrollment over the past seven years, and had anticipated a 5 percent drop in enrollment this fall. But the university’s latest census shows a steeper decline, from 11,865 students in Fall 2017 to 10,962 this fall.
That count includes the University’s Missoula and Bitterroot Colleges and its central Mountain Campus.
Read more: https://missoulian.com/news/local/percent-decline-puts-university-of-montana-enrollment-at-lowest-in/article_93a1bd25-cca0-5906-b18f-aae294fbfe51.html
Lawsuit: Longtime trainer at Eastern Montana HS groomed, sexually abused as many as 100 boys
During his 28 years working as an athletic trainer for the Custer County District High School in Miles City, James “Doc” Jensen groomed and sexually abused as many as 100 boys, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
The suit, filed in Custer County District Court in Miles City, names Jensen as a defendant, along with the Miles City Unified School District, the high school, and John Does A-Z representing as yet unnamed school and athletic officials who may have known of Jensen’s alleged sexual abuses and failed to stop him.
“This was a structured, sophisticated system of ritual sexual abuse,” said Miles City attorney Daniel Rice, who filed the suit with his partner Bryant Martin and Billings attorney John Heenan.
At least 18 victims already have been identified, and “that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Heenan said.
GRAPHIC WARNING: The description of the activities involved may make some uneasy. Those details are at the link: https://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/lawsuit-longtime-trainer-at-eastern-montana-high-school-groomed-sexually/article_1044418d-8461-50e5-b74c-98e19977c91e.html
Montana Magazine Folding After Publishing Nearly 50 years
HELENA — Montana Magazine is folding after nearly 50 years of publishing stories and images of the state’s people, geography, history and culture.
The magazine’s general manager, Matt Gibson, wrote to subscribers Tuesday saying, “the dynamics of the publishing business have changed and the magazine has reached the end of its distinguished run.”
He thanked loyal readers and said they would be refunded the balance for their unfulfilled subscriptions.
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Lee Enterprises also shut down the Missoula Independent newspaper this month, less than 18 months after purchasing the paper from Gibson.
Read more: https://flatheadbeacon.com/2018/09/19/montana-magazine-folding-publishing-nearly-50-years/
Wyoming educators, lawmakers remain at odds over school funding
Wyoming lawmakers are working on a fast timetable to implement sweeping, cost-saving changes to how school districts receive state money.
Critics, however, have argued the state shouldn’t be so hasty. The changes could potentially have long-lasting, negative impacts on young students, educators say.
The issue began several years ago. As revenues declined, the Wyoming Legislature recognized that, after years of reconstructing and expanding school buildings across the state, there was little money left to fund the continued, robust construction of new schools. It was around this time that the state, recognizing its limited choices, decided to work toward something new.
“We couldn’t afford to build all these new schools,” said Tom Walters, chairman of the Legislature’s Select Committee on School Facilities. “So we decided we wanted to move more toward asset preservation.”
Read more: https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-educators-lawmakers-remain-at-odds-over-school-funding/article_b20a5572-aabb-52e0-a1dd-72c6adfced17.html
Wyoming lawmakers to talk corporate taxes ... again
If at first you don’t succeed, learn a little bit more about the subject and, maybe, try again later.
That’s what the Wyoming Legislature’s Revenue Committee plans to do on Thursday when it revisits the topic of instituting a state corporate income tax, a political non-starter with lawmakers over the past several years. Thursday’s meeting will be a continuation of a discussion that began last year around the prospect of taxing larger corporations or box stores that pay very little in taxes, according to committee chairman Sen. Ray Peterson.
Wyoming has long been noted for its lack of both a statewide corporate income tax and a personal income tax, two distinctions that have made Wyoming a perennial top state to do business, according to a pollster often cited by the Wyoming Business Council. Out of six states in the union without a corporate tax, Wyoming is joined by South Dakota as the only ones without a corporate income or gross receipts tax: essentially a sales tax for companies that provide services, rather than sell goods.
As things are, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank, has consistently ranked Wyoming first in the nation in its annual State Business Tax Climate Index.
Read more: https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-lawmakers-to-talk-corporate-taxes-again/article_6c3d0fdd-ce95-51a1-a854-4a151c7ef1a6.html
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