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• Texas county appeals to stop border fence

  - 2008-12-11

  EL PASO, Texas -- A county in Texas filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court this week in the latest bid to stop construction of hundreds of miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. In asking the court to review a lawsuit previously dismissed by a federal...

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• Skinny suspect breaks out of Texas county jail

  - 2008-07-20

  HEMPSTEAD, Texas AP -- A man charged with murder escaped from jail early Saturday by climbing through an air-conditioner vent, authorities said. The vent was less than a foot wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing weight since arriving at the Waller County Jail in...

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• Texas county doesn't want raid costs

  - 2008-07-01

  The tiny county that has been the eye of the storm over the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch says it could go bankrupt if the state of Texas doesn't indemnify it against millions of dollars in bills. Schleicher County recently approved a resolution declaring it...

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• Texas County and District Retirement System Taps IBM Software to Go Paperless

  - 2007-12-05

  Wireless News 12-05-2007 Texas County and District Retirement System Taps IBM Software to Go Paperless WIRELESS NEWS-December 5, 2007-Texas County and District Retirement System Taps IBM Software to Go Paperless C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Texas County...

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• Texas County and District Retirement System Goes Paperless Via IBM Software

  - 2007-11-26

  Wireless News 11-26-2007 Texas County and District Retirement System Goes Paperless Via IBM Software WIRELESS NEWS-November 26, 2007-Texas County and District Retirement System Goes Paperless Via IBM Software C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Texas County and District...

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• Texas County and District Retirement System Goes Paperless With IBM Software

  - 2007-11-16

  Texas County and District Retirement System TCDRS has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to bring millions of records online with a new enterprise content management system which will provide pension fund members and customer service representatives with real-time access to pension and retirement information.

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• New school district dissolved by Oklahoma CareerTech Board

  - 2007-09-24

  The third time wasn't the charm for educators in northwestern Oklahoma who officially gave up on an attempt to open a technology school district. The Oklahoma Board of Career and Technology Education voted unanimously on Thursday to eliminate a technology school district in Texas County after dissent from voters in...

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• Blazing a new trail for mental health consumers: community leaders in a rapidly growing Texas county work together to promote better care for people with mental illnesses

  - 2007-08-01

  One afternoon each month, the conference room at Bluebonnet Trails Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center in Williamson County, Texas, slowly fills with a diverse group of community leaders and decision makers from a wide array of agencies and organizations. They represent a variety of perspectives, including community mental...

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• Texas County students rely on free and reduced-price school meals

  - 2007-06-01

  EL PASO, Texas--In El Paso County, more than 100,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches. According to Adel Balesh, the director of nutrition services for the Canutillo Independent School District, "The vast majority of our students are of low-income families, and the meals we provide do...

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• Subsurface Drip Irrigation Versus Center-Pivot Sprinkler for Applying Swine Effluent to Corn

  - 2006-12-01

  A risk-averse irrigated corn producer would be better off choosing the more expensive subsurface drip irrigation SDI over center-pivot sprinkler CPS, given limited aquifer life and swine effluent and urea fertilization. A stochastic optimization using EPIC data maximized expected utility of 100 years' worth of net revenues for a quarter...

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