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...apple of temptation came to Williamson County, Texas, last week, but the county commission didn't bite. Earlier this year Apple Computer, the California-based high-tech firm, proposed to build an $80 million office complex near the town of Round Rock. The five-member county commission was delighted. The project would bring as many as 1,450 new jobs, with a potential contribution to the local economy of $300 million by the year 2000. Then the commission learned that Apple extends health benefits to the live-in partners of unmarried employees, whether straight or gay. Jobs or no jobs...
...letter from Hays supporting the abatements. But over the weekend he was lobbied by conservative Christians. "If I had voted yes," Hays said later on a radio show, "I would have had to walk into my church with people saying, 'There is the man who brought homosexuality to Williamson County...
Notwithstanding whether homosexuality might be there already, Williamson County is an area in flux. Farms and ranches are making way for industrial parks and the expanding suburbs of nearby Austin, the state capital and the closest thing Texas has to a hotbed of liberalism. Business has been so good in Williamson County that unemployment among its 139,500 residents is 3.5%, about half the state average. "The county is growing like crazy," says Cathy Gilstrap, a Round Rock accountant. "There are those who want the growth, but they don't want any change...
...WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS...
...local zoning board or a state-level bureaucracy knows that such bodies are hardly Institutions (with a capital `I') worthy of respect, so much as institutions (as in "mental') for those with pathologically underdeveloped intellects and overdeveloped egos. How are folks like the cloven-hooved aspiring-deacons of the Williamson County Commission supposed to hold their own against the likes of Apple and its army of Ivy-league lawyer/consultant mercenaries? It's as though Homer Simpson were to take on Gary Kasparov in a chess match. Or to adopt a closer analogy, like the Undergraduate Council attempting to negotiate with...