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Harold Simmons

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First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

LP&L Restores Power To All Customers By Sunday Afternoon

100 percent of Lubbock Power & Light's customers have electricity this morning, after last week's storm caused wide spread outages.The storm knocked out power to 19,000 people.It took crews four days, rotating 16 hour shifts, to finally get power restored ... [Published Everything Lubbock - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Lubbock, Texas, Weight Loss, Harold Simmons

First reported Jun 08 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 1 reports

GMC Acadia

Friday Accident Leaves 2 Plains Women Dead

Around 12:45 Friday afternoon a Plains woman driving a 2009 GMC Acadia was heading North bound on FM 769 when she failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of US 82.Her vehicle collided with the back wheels of a semi tractor trailer who was heading ... [Published Everything Lubbock - Jun 08 2013]

Entities: Accident, Lubbock, Texas, Harold Simmons, GMC Acadia

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

West Texas Dump Now Accepting Nuclear Waste

Share on TwitterSean Gallup,The federal government is now depositing low-level radioactive materials in Harold Simmons’ remote waste facility in West Texas. That’s because Simmons says he has grand visions of making the dump accessible to a myriad of ... [Published KISS FM 93.1 - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Waste, Harold Simmons, Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Radioactive Waste

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste

ANDREWS, Texas --Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons' remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal lab in New Mexico - the latest step in Simmons' vision of site that accept all types ... [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Harold Simmons, Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Nuclear Waste

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Judge's rulings challenge US transplant policies

Posted:Updated:Thursday, June 6, 2013 6:08 PM ESTNationalMore>>Education Secretary Arne Duncan would see his authority greatly cut and governors would have final say over their schools under Republican-sponsored legislation.More >>Education ... [Published KWWL - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Harold Simmons, Medgar Evers, Esther Williams

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Harold Simmons' NL Industries Being Sued for Dumping Radioactive Material 70 Years Ago

NL Industries' Sayreville, New Jersey, plant.In the same way that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC once America caught on to the fact that deep-frying things isn't good for you, National Lead -- one of the dozen stocks that comprised the ... [Published Dallas Observer - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: NL Industries Inc, Harold Simmons, Radioactive Material

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 2 reports

Barack Obama

Obama Thinks Your Speech Is Illegitimate

He argued that it wasnt necessarily a top-down endeavorObama wasnt hopping on the phone and telling individual IRS agents to go get the tea partybut one inspired by the climate of fear and aggression that Obama and his allies himself nurtured. It was, ... [Published Newsvine - May 25 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Harold Simmons, Bob Bauer

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Budget stalemate ends in Austin

Breaking a budget impasse with days left in the 2013 session, House and Senate members approved key elements Wednesday of a two-year spending plan that boosts education funding and addresses a looming water shortage.House members voted 130-16 on a proposed ... [Published Individual.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Austin, Lon Burnam, Drawdown, Taxes

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

House approves radioactive waste bill

SAN ANGELO, Texas — AUSTIN — The House passed a bill Wednesday that would increase the yearly amount of radioactive waste allowed to be dumped at a West Texas facility that is owned by a billionaire Republican donor. The increased dumping limit would ... [Published San Angelo Standard-Times - May 23 2013]

Entities: Radioactive Waste, Harold Simmons, Lon Burnam, Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Radiation

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Harold Simmons Calls His Shots in the Texas Legislature Once Again

Waste Control Specialists Harold Simmons, the Dallas billionaire and owner of a West Texas radioactive-waste dump, won yet another tailor-made piece of legislation Tuesday. When all seemed lost, and his bill was hung up on a technicality -- a point of ... [Published Dallas Observer - May 22 2013]

Entities: Harold Simmons, Texas Legislature, Lon Burnam

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Lawmaker resurrects radioactive water bill

A Republican lawmaker has resurrected a radioactive waste bill that would allow a West Texas site to store more hazardous materials.San Angelo Rep. Drew Darby on Tuesday incorporated the measure into another bill governing a radioactive storage site in ... [Published Bryan-College Station Eagle - May 22 2013]

Entities: Harold Simmons, Radioactive Waste, Nuclear Waste

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Harold Simmons Wins Another Favor from the Lege

Every legislative session, Harold Simmons’ radioactive waste dump company comes to the Legislature with a new favor to ask. Every session Rep. Lon Burnam, a Fort Worth Democrat with a peace activist pedigree, puts up a spirited protest. And every session, ... [Published Texas Observer - May 22 2013]

Entities: Harold Simmons, Lon Burnam, Radioactive Waste

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LP&L Restores Power To All Customers By Sunday ... [Published Everything Lubbock - Jun 10 2013]
Friday Accident Leaves 2 Plains Women Dead [Published Everything Lubbock - Jun 08 2013]
West Texas Dump Now Accepting Nuclear Waste [Published KISS FM 93.1 - Jun 07 2013]
Judge's rulings challenge US transplant policies [Published KWWL - Jun 06 2013]
Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - Jun 06 2013]
Harold Simmons' NL Industries Being Sued for Du... [Published Dallas Observer - Jun 06 2013]
Obama Thinks Your Speech Is Illegitimate [Published Newsvine - May 25 2013]
Conservative Groups, Donors Became Targets in 2... [Published Pajamas Media - May 24 2013]
Budget stalemate ends in Austin [Published Individual.com - May 23 2013]
House approves radioactive waste bill [Published San Angelo Standard-Times - May 23 2013]
Bill Allowing Hotter Waste in Texas Passes House [Published The Texas Tribune - May 22 2013]
Harold Simmons Calls His Shots in the Texas Leg... [Published Dallas Observer - May 22 2013]
Lawmaker resurrects radioactive water bill [Published Bryan-College Station Eagle - May 22 2013]
Harold Simmons Wins Another Favor from the Lege [Published Texas Observer - May 22 2013]
Texas radioactive waste bill killed for error [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - May 21 2013]
Why Rosemary Lehmberg Needs to Stay as Travis C... [Published Burnt Orange Report - Apr 23 2013]
Houston millionaire dies [Published Click2Houston.com - Apr 15 2013]
Capital Eye Opener, Jan. 14: Cornyn Hearts Cruz... [Published Capital Eye - Jan 14 2013]
Capital Eye Opener, Jan. 9: Major Super PAC Don... [Published Capital Eye - Jan 09 2013]
2012 Billionaires of the Year [Published Crooks and Liars - Jan 01 2013]
20 Inspiring Rags-To-Riches Stories [Published Clusterstock - Dec 25 2012]
Revealed: Why the Pundits Are Wrong About Big M... [Published naked capitalism - Dec 21 2012]
Money isn't everything [Published Daily and Sunday Review - Nov 10 2012]

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Conservative Groups, Donors Became Targets in 2... [Published Pajamas Media - May 24 2013] On Aug. 21, 2008, the conservative American Issues Project ran an ad highlighting ties between candidate Obama and Bill Ayers, formerly of the Weather Underground. The Obama campaign and supporters were furious, and they pressured TV stations to pull ...
Why Rosemary Lehmberg Needs to Stay as Travis C... [Published Burnt Orange Report - Apr 23 2013] In the debate about whether or not Rosemary Lehmberg should resign, what's really at stake is whether the entire state of Texas can afford to let Rick Perry control the office of Travis County DA. Given Perry's history and the unique faculties of the ...
Capital Eye Opener, Jan. 14: Cornyn Hearts Cruz... [Published Capital Eye - Jan 14 2013] Your daily dose of what's trending in money and politics. THE CORNYN/CRUZ AXIS: In his new leadership role as the No. 2 Senate Republican, Sen. John Cornyn is using his power to bring fellow Texan Sen. Ted Cruz under his wing. Cornyn's alliance ...
Capital Eye Opener, Jan. 9: Major Super PAC Don... [Published Capital Eye - Jan 09 2013] Your morning dose of what's trending in money-and-politics: SIMMONS' TEXAS PAC FINED : Last week, the Texas Ethics Commission fined a PAC owned by Harold Simmons , the Waste Control Specialists -- Texas Solutions PAC (also known as TEXSOL PAC), for ...
2012 Billionaires of the Year [Published Crooks and Liars - Jan 01 2013] Since it's New Year's Eve, I thought we should honor those billionaires who had so much money they knew they could afford to step up and toss it away on wingnuts and Mitt Romney. To their credit, these are the billionaires who put a lot of money ...