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...Hunt, who was appointed to the Texas Water Development Board by then Gov. George W. Bush and reappointed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry, has urged his fellow board members of the Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Association to press political leaders for more study, but to no avail. More changes are ahead for the state's rural areas. Plans have been approved to develop Competitive Renewable Energy Zones that will cluster new and upgraded transmission lines near wind farms, a $10 billion cost that will be passed on to ratepayers...
...with three minutes remaining. Cornell defenseman Steph Ulrich scored on a slow floating shot to the upper right corner—one Crimson sophomore goalie Christina Martin probably should have saved. As time ran down, the Big Red pulled its goalie in favor of extra offense, but to no avail. Sophomore forward Sarah Wilson stole the puck and skated back down the left side of the rink, putting it in the empty goal for the last score of the day. Harvard had scored the game’s first goal in the second period on a power play...
...toll on the G.O.P. In Pennsylvania, 20-year House veteran Curt Weldon fell to the square-jawed Admiral and Clinton administration official, Joe Sestak. Also in Pennsylvania, political newcomer Christopher Carney downed four-term incumbent Don Sherwood, who pleaded with voters to forgive his marital infidelity, apparently to no avail. In Ohio, the Democrat Zack Space pummeled Joy Padgett, the hand-picked replacement of Rep. Bob Ney, who resigned amid an investigation of his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
...While the two higher-security prisons there have walled yards, the entire campus is separated from the community by only a single barbed-wire cow fence. State representative Buffie McFadyen, a two-term Democrat whose district includes the prisons in Fremont County, has pressed members of Congress, to no avail, to appropriate funds to build a solid wall around the complex, along with a central guard tower to better protect the center from outside attack. The Bureau of Prisons has already failed four times to squeeze money into its budget to upgrade security. McFadyen has also campaigned to remedy what...
...summer, Schwarzenegger pulled ahead of Angelides and hasn't trailed since. Along the way, he has benefited from the perquisites of incumbency, sharing the spotlight with world leaders such as Tony Blair and scoring a seat on the couch at The Tonight Show that left Democrats demanding, to no avail, equal time. And with a $38.8 million campaign war chest enriched by contributions from Democrats Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg, the Governor financed a television ad campaign touting what he calls his forward-looking agenda...