Category: TEXAS
New Police Drone Can Read License Plates From 1,200 Feet
(Kris Gutiérrez) The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is weeks away from launching an unmanned aerial asset to help deputies fight crime. The ShadowHawk helicopter is six-feet long, weighs fifty pounds and fits in the back of an SUV. “We can put it over a fire, put it over ahazmat spill, put it over a house [...]
Big Spring, Texas To Recycle Urine In The Face Of Massive Drought
(Dean Praetorius) The thought of drinking your own urine might be disgusting to some people, but one Texas town thinks it might be the best option in the face of one of the state’s worst droughts ever. Big Spring, Texas, home to the Colorado River Municipal Water District, will be experimenting with reprocessing wastewater produced [...]
University of Texas Takes Delivery Of $1 Billion In Physical Gold
(Zero Hedge) Tipping points are funny: for years, decades, even centuries, the conditions for an event to occur may be ripe yet nothing happens. Then, in an instant, a shift occurs, whether its is due a change in conventional wisdom, due to an exogenous event or due to something completely inexplicable. That event, colloquially called [...]
Ron Paul: I’m Considering A Senate Run In 2012
(Sahil Kapur) Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul said Wednesday he’s considering a 2012 run for his state’s open seat in the US Senate. “It’s certainly crossed my mind,” Paul toldThe Hill after a poll found him to be a strong contender for the seat, to be vacated by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who announced her retirement [...]
Permit Needed To Feed Homeless In Houston
(Chron.Com) Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food tohomeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said. That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their “Feed a Friend” effort [...]
