Vista Ridge is heading to the land of high school football with a road trip to Texas. A game against a Florida team last season left a hole in the Wolves' schedule, so they scoured neighboring states for a match. Texas' Borger High School was more than willing to fill in, going so far as to pay for the charter bus to carry the Wolves the 371 miles to Borger, Texas, about an hour from Amarillo.
Boaters, water sport enthusiasts and anglers can look forward to a good year with New Mexico's biggest reservoirs expected to keep filling as the winter snowpack melts in April and May. The reservoir levels also are critical for irrigators in Southern New Mexico, city water planners along the Rio Grande and the state engineer, who must ensure Rio Grande and Pecos River water make it to neighboring Texas and Mexico.
costly cluster WASHINGTON -- A record 10 weather disasters in the U.S. have each caused at least $1 billion in damage: - Hurricane Irene, Aug. 20-29. - Upper Midwest flooding, much of the summer. - Mississippi River flooding, spring and summer. - Drought and heat wave continues in Texas, Oklahoma and neighboring states. - Tornadoes hit the Midwest and Southeast on May 22-27. The toll: 177 dead, more than $7 billion in losses. - Tornadoes in the Ohio Valley, Southeast and Midwest on April. 25-30, devastating the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Tornadoes hit from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania on April 14-16. - Outbreak of 59 tornadoes in Midwest and Northeast April 8-11. - Outbreak of 46 tornadoes in Central and Southern states April 4-5. - Blizzard stretching from late January until aft...
At the peak of this year's swine flu emergency, resorts popular with foreigners saw hotel occupancy rates plummet to near bottom. Last spring, Cancun experienced occupancy rates of 21.3 percent, while Puerto Vallarta recorded a low number of 29.2 percent. Popular with Mexican national tourists, Acapulco's hotel occupancy rate nose-dived to 16.7 percent. Scores of cruise ships canceled ports-of-call to Cozumel Island and other destinations. If the pandemic behaves at current levels, I'd calculate that it wouldn't be such an abrupt decrease," [Ernesto Rodriguez Chavez] said. "We could face a bigger reduction if this phenomenon acquires bigger dimensions. The city government of Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz is planning on practically gating-off part of the old Avenida Juarez tourist district a...
... and virtually attaching it to neighboring El Paso, Texas. The plan involves using barriers, ...
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) recently issued its first recommendations from Ciudad Juarez complaints presented in 2008. The first case involved 22 state police officers who were detained, while the second one concerned three residents of a subdivision who alleged they were robbed and treated badly by soldiers. In both instance, the CNDH recommended that victims be compensated for damages, that legal investigations be initiated, that administrative sanctions be levied against responsible parties, and that a memo be sent to military personnel reminding them to respect human rights. The CNDH's recommendations can be accepted or rejected by recipient institutions. In Ciudad Juarez, soldiers are everywhere. Accompanying transit officers, who are notorious for skimming bribes f...
... walkers entering Ciudad Juarez from neighboring El Paso, Texas, are subject to searches by Mexican...
AUSTIN, Texas, May 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, Texas moved one step closer to stemming the flow of money to our neighboring states when House Joint Resolution (HJR) 111 passed out of committee. HJR 111 will allow Texans to vote on placing slot machines at licensed racetracks and federally-recognized Indian reservations in Texas. Right now, Texas dollars are helping to fund schools in Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. We have an opportunity to keep a huge chunk of that money here," said State Representative and Speaker Pro-Tempore Beverly Woolley. "We can generate revenue, create more than 77,000 jobs and spur economic growth all without expanding the footprint of gambling in the state and without raising taxes.
Mike Mason doesn't have to remind federal executives in the Houston area that emergency planning is critical. Nature takes care of that. The Veterans Affairs Department's medical facility in the region, for instance, used its plan four years ago in the aftermath of tropical storm Allison. Floods incapacitated neighboring hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, an 800-acre cluster of patient care, educational and research facilities, requiring the VA facility to accept extra patients. The VA isn't alone. All seven federal agencies with Houston area field offices employing more than 1,000 people have relied on continuity of operations plans in emergencies, says Mason, director of the Houston Federal Executive Board. But even though contingency planning is old hat for the area's managers, t...
As damage estimates from Hurricane Katrina approach astronomical proportions, some local commercial property owners are gearing up for some possible effects the storm may have on their properties. With early estimates of the storm's damage near $26 billion, there is apprehension as to what effect it may have on commercial and residential property insurance rates already on the rise since the terrorist attacks in 2001, compounded by property mold issues in neighboring Texas and the three major tornadoes that have hit the Oklahoma City area over the past six years.
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of San Antonio has awarded i2, the leading provider of intelligence and investigation software, a contract to deliver and implement COPLINK to facilitate information sharing between all participating justice and law enforcement agencies in the Southwest Texas Regional Fusion Center (SWTRFC), as well as with neighboring fusion centers in Houston, Austin, El Paso and Dallas. As part of the largest law enforcement information sharing initiative in Texas, SWTRFC joins more than 50 percent of fusion centers across the U.S. that rely on i2 to help prevent and disrupt terrorist and criminal activity. The most widely deployed tactical lead generation tool in the U.S., COPLINK enhances information sharing within and between local, regional, tribal, s...
When I told a meeting of planners what I envisioned, the feeling in the room was, so how do we pull this off? What will the theme be? That was easy-turn all the regional stereotypes inside out, find the writers writing the real thing, not falling back on coming-of-age stories or the poetry of the isolated soul's finding the whole world hostile to one's visions. We really wanted to get past the nostalgia for the open plains, grandpa's ranch, the last Indian weeping under a mesquite bush, the last wild buffalo roaming the desolate hills. Enough already. The Southwest is not just the tomb of the gallant Anglo settler; it's alive and thriving under an emerging Latino majority, and the growing voices of African-American poets and Asian voices along the coast. And pushing the Southwest out of...
... student poets from across Texas and neighboring states. In all, we brought together 120 performers...
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