Welp. Texas is about to be off the chain! Add their political climate to the mix
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“I don’t think anybody was prepared for this,” Martinez-Garcia told The Texas Tribune. “More people attend First Friday than vote.”
A city cutting its nose off to spite it's face.......
Median household income in the city is $60K
If you attract 20K people consistently from within and across TX every 1st Friday.......
That's a lot of money going into local businesses......
the population is estimated between 260-270K...... so just under 10% of your cities population
And that $30K was a portion of the tax money received from local hotels...... hotels that were being occupied by people going to FF.......
they never asked if the drag event was associated with FF, they assumed it was and never gave them an opportunity to provide evidence that it wasn't......
These new fucks are stupid Especially the Mayor. "It's a slippery slope" smh
Instead of, "let's not give our executives so many millions upon milkions in bonuses this quarter/year", "we have insurance for that" or something...... nah, let's fuck the customers over
Still can't believe it is motherfuckers out here getting bullied by a nigga in a wheelchair.
Hell froze over in Texas – the state will connect to the US grid for the first time via a fed grant
The DOE announces $1.5B for four transmission projects – including connecting the Texas grid to the Southeast grids for the first time ever.
electrek.co
That's DALLAS all day long.
Fight me. Some of y'all niggas cool but a lotta y'all COUNTRY AS FUCK
Pleasant Grove can keep it.
...If I can't use taxpayer money for a couple of handy's every now and then, then I don't want to live in this country!!!
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/stat...wastewater-into-south-texas-wetlands-36790995
Texas News
Texas regulators late last week approved billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX to discharge wastewater from its South Texas launch site to nearby wetlands, the Express-News reports.
On a 3-0 vote, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) denied requests from environmental groups and area residents to halt the permit. The regulators panel ruled that opponents offered no “new factual information or an error" that could alter its decision, the daily reports.
The permit allows SpaceX to release up to 358,000 gallons of water into wetlands around its facility in Boca Chica during rocket tests and launches. Environmentalists argue the discharge would violate the federal Clean Water Act.
No public comment was allowed at TCEQ's hearing, which took place Thursday.
In a written statement submitted ahead of the vote, environmental engineer Eric Roesch argued that SpaceX filed a flawed permit request and TCEQ mischaracterized the nature of the wastewater so that it appeared less environmentally damaging, according to the Express-News.
“Considering the numerous technical flaws in SpaceX’s permit application and the baffling shortcuts enabled by TCEQ, I am proactively requesting a contested hearing on this permit issuance,” he wrote. “The agency can and must do better.”
The state's ruling comes amid growing frustration from residents and environmentalists about SpaceX's environmental record in the Rio Grande Valley.
In September, SpaceX agreed to pay roughly $150,000 in penalties over a spill of 36,000 gallons of liquid oxygen into wetlands adjacent its launch area, the EPA said.
Some of the same groups that petitioned the TCEQ have also sued the Federal Aviation Administration to demand it put the brakes on SpaceX's South Texas activity. Their petition argues the agency failed to conduct environmental reviews of the company's test launch last April.
Additionally, the groups sued the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for signing off on a deal that would have turned over 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX in exchange for 477 acres adjacent to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, according to the Texas Tribune.
SpaceX scrapped that land deal late last year, the Tribune reports.
Texas News
State regulators approve Elon Musk's SpaceX to release wastewater into South Texas wetlands
Texas regulators late last week approved billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX to discharge wastewater from its South Texas launch site to nearby wetlands, the Express-News reports.
On a 3-0 vote, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) denied requests from environmental groups and area residents to halt the permit. The regulators panel ruled that opponents offered no “new factual information or an error" that could alter its decision, the daily reports.
The permit allows SpaceX to release up to 358,000 gallons of water into wetlands around its facility in Boca Chica during rocket tests and launches. Environmentalists argue the discharge would violate the federal Clean Water Act.
No public comment was allowed at TCEQ's hearing, which took place Thursday.
In a written statement submitted ahead of the vote, environmental engineer Eric Roesch argued that SpaceX filed a flawed permit request and TCEQ mischaracterized the nature of the wastewater so that it appeared less environmentally damaging, according to the Express-News.
“Considering the numerous technical flaws in SpaceX’s permit application and the baffling shortcuts enabled by TCEQ, I am proactively requesting a contested hearing on this permit issuance,” he wrote. “The agency can and must do better.”
The state's ruling comes amid growing frustration from residents and environmentalists about SpaceX's environmental record in the Rio Grande Valley.
In September, SpaceX agreed to pay roughly $150,000 in penalties over a spill of 36,000 gallons of liquid oxygen into wetlands adjacent its launch area, the EPA said.
Some of the same groups that petitioned the TCEQ have also sued the Federal Aviation Administration to demand it put the brakes on SpaceX's South Texas activity. Their petition argues the agency failed to conduct environmental reviews of the company's test launch last April.
Additionally, the groups sued the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for signing off on a deal that would have turned over 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX in exchange for 477 acres adjacent to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, according to the Texas Tribune.
SpaceX scrapped that land deal late last year, the Tribune reports.
So pretty much everything?
Fuck is you telling me for? They have engineers down there. Let them mine for agua in their AR-15s.
Just a boldface shakedown.
When the black folks were setting up schools in Mississippi during the CW, they insisted on keeping the state out of negro education. The larger issue is, what do we do about accreditation?
That's the thing with the states now in control and also facing severe budgeting issues/ aka shortfalls..... they may outsource accreditation or similar services to local businesses for extra revenue. In that case we'd just need to set up our own accreditation service/business for our schools
You do understand the minute you go independent, you're not going to be able to like and subscribe to their #Ice channel right? That's it!
I am going to employ all the flat butt lovers to try out rubbing their genitals against the wall when they're feeling nostalgic. When they find out Jesus isn't white, they're going to be shattered. I hope white Jesus has mercy on our souls.
Molefi said 1000 years and I agree with him. Make it 2000 and I will break dance for every minute of those millennia.