striadax.blogg.se - Writeitnow april 2016

If you haven’t already voted, here’s a guide to learn where to go and what voter identification to bring with you. A record-number of voters - more than 2.1 million - turned out in the first week of early voting, and numbers have continued to climb, the Texas Tribune reports.

It’s the last day of early voting in Texas, folks.

Watch Facebook live video from Thursday's meeting: American Indians and others have protested the project for months because it could contaminate their water supply, and they've also said the pipeline route would disrupt ancestral lands. Protesters and police are still clashing near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation where the 1,172-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline would cut through to carry oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois.

Warren was appointed to the commission by Gov. Members of the state Sierra Club and the Society of Native Nations attended Thursday's commission meeting. In addition to being CEO of Energy Transfer Partners - the Dallas-based company behind the Dakota Access and Trans-Pecos pipelines - Warren serves as a commissioner for Texas parks and wildlife.

Five stories that have North Texas talking: It’s the last day to vote early in Texas Dallas author Ben Fountain gets a film adaptation for “Billy Lynn” the Texas Book Festival is taking over the Capitol and more.Ībout 100 people gathered in Austin Thursday to demand Kelcy Warren’s resignation from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, The Associated Press reports.