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- Communities bug out over cuts to mosquito control
(AP)
AP - Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.
- exhibits [El Paso Times, Texas]
(El Paso Times (TX) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jul. 2--East SIDE and Lower Valley Art Windows of El Paso Airport Gallery -- Inside El Paso International Airport, 6701 Convair. www.elpasotexas.gov/mcad; 541-4481. Bob Adams Art Studio -- 1900 Solano.
- More US banks seized
Six banks in Illinois and one in Texas were seized by regulators as the deepening financial crisis pushed the toll of failed US lenders this year to 52, the most since 1992. Twelve banks have failed this year in Illinois, the most of any State. The seven
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Introduction
Texas became the United States twenty-eigth state on December 29, 1845. The capital is Austin. The state's largest city is Houston, home to NASA control. The name Texas comes from the word "tejas", meaning "friends and allies". Notable in Texas state history is that from 1836 to 1845 Texas was an independent nation. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson were both born in the Lone Star State. Today Texas claims 7.4% of the total area of the United States with 261,914 square miles, making it the second largest state. Still, Texas is less than half the size of the largest state, Alaska.
State web site www.state.tx.us
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Reuters - Several Mexican clients of Stanford Financial Group have sued insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd , contending it was a willing participant in a $7 billion fraud at the Texas-based investment company.
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