Perry Won’t Veto Virus Vaccinations Bill
A veto almost certainly would have been
overridden by Texas legislators, who have questioned the vaccine’s
safety, efficacy and cost and complained that the governor’s mandate
would intrude on families’ lives. Lawmakers also were outraged that he
didn’t consult with them before issuing the order.
Source: Breitbart, May 8, 2007
Texas House: We won’t force vaccine on schoolgirls
The House of Representatives in Texas has
approved by a 6-1 margin legislation that would rescind Gov. Rick
Perry’s executive order requiring all schoolgirls to be vaccinated
against a sexual transmitted disease.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 14, 2007
Government red-light runners cost $8,000 in Houston fines
Houston’s new red-light cameras nabbed more than 100 government and
school vehicles since the enforcement program began last fall, resulting
in about $8,000 in fines, police records show.
Source: Houston Chronicle (online), March 3, 2007
Required STD shots worry some parents
Some conservatives and parents’ rights groups worry that
requiring girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted
virus that causes cervical cancer would condone premarital sex and
interfere with the way they raise their children.
Source: MSNBC News (online), February 5, 2007
The principal of an elementary school instructed his
students to stand during the recitation of a pledge to the Mexican flag
during a diversity assembly recently, and he’s been trying to backtrack
ever since.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 22, 2006
Today, the City Council [of
Farmers Branch] will discuss possible ways to do that, including
prohibiting landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants, penalizing
businesses that employ them, making English the city’s official language
and ceasing publication of any documents in Spanish, and eliminating
subsidies for illegal immigrants in the city’s youth programs.
Source: The Dallas Morning News (online), August 24, 2006
The ruling from the Fifth Court of Appeals said the
display of a Bible on public ground in Houston to honor the founder of a
mission has to go, not because it was unconstitutional itself, but
because it became unconstitutional when a Christian group rallied around
it.
Source: WorldNetDaily, August 17, 2006
Alarmed by rising gun crime in Dallas, named the most
dangerous city in America by the FBI, and by shootings nationwide by
police of offenders carrying toy weapons, councillors have advanced a
plan to ban replica firearms.
Source: Guardian Unlimited (online), August 14, 2006
An ill woman in Houston could die within days because a
hospital ethics committee has voted to take her off life support – this
despite the fact the 54-year-old is not in a coma, is not brain dead and
wants to go on living, her family says.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 25, 2006
Police are investigating the strip search of 10 students at Mainland Preparatory Academy.
Source: Galveston County The Daily News (online), January 8, 2005
Now a school district has banned the colors red and green from a
"Winter Break Party," requiring parents to bring only white plates and
napkins.
WorldNetDaily, December 15, 2004
A pilot program for fingerprinting welfare recipients is
expected to begin in November (1995, 1996). Persons renewing their
drivers licenses are already being fingerprinted.
Source: Houston Chronicle Interactive, August 8, 1996, October 8, 1995
"A computer database is being filled with the DNA
information of some criminals. Authorities hope for it to one day be an
important crime-fighting tool both on state and national levels."
Source: Houston Chronicle Interactive, July 14, 1997
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