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• Thoughts on Sunday Night

  I'm sitting here on a chilly Sunday night in November in my darkened living room with a roaring fire in our fireplace. I know it's probably not really cold enough yet, but I knew it would cheer up my oldest son, who is really, really bored.
  
  Ron, the Bearded' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  

• Local Happenings and Announcements - Lewisville Area

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  H1N1 Influenza Vaccinations Available
  The Denton County Health Department is now reporting it has sufficient doses on hand to begin offering the H1N1 vaccine to members of the following groups:
  
  - Pregnant [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:10pm EST
  

• President Obama’s Afghanistan Decision.

  Front-paged by WhosPlayin.
  Eight more years and 34,000 troops the Huffington post reported today on President
  Obama’s Afghanistan Decision. For the last year, our president has been talking about an exit strategy from Afghanistan. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  

• Town Tells Pipeline Firms "Shut it Down"

  DISH TX Calls For Five Natural Gas Compression Stations to Halt Operations
  
  Based on results of recent air study, local officials in the town of DISH, TX has asked operators for a safety stand down
  
  DISH, TX -- The results of a DISH, [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

• Thoughts on Tuesday Night

  It's the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving, and I am off work tomorrow. Just sitting here in my bedroom while my kids run around out in the living room and make all sorts of noise. I think they were riding their razor scooter and running over Legos earlier. Our poor dog [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:22pm EST
  

• Send Citizen Sarah to Copenhagen!

  
  This December, the UN is holding a Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark where the world's leaders will decide whether there will be any framework at all on limiting carbon emissions.
  
  The Huffington Post is sending one lucky citizen journalist to Copenhagen in what they are calling the' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:58pm EST
  

• Texas Blog Roundup - Week ending 11/22/09

  The Texas Progressive Alliance as Thanksgiving week begins brings you this week's highlights from the blogs.
  
  The Texas Cloverleaf clues you in on why you can't breathe in Denton County-- gas drillers!
  
  WCNews at Eye On Williamson has some Thoughts on Straus' Interim Charges - [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:34pm EST
  

• The National Debt

  People who know me will tell you that in tough times I tend to look to the history of our Founding Fathers and history of our great country for answers.
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:40pm EST
  

• The National Debt

  People who know me will tell you that in tough times I tend to look to the history of our Founding Fathers and history of our great country for answers.
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:37pm EST
  

• LHS Field House to Cost $4.8 Million - Sprinklers a Definite Maybe

  The new athletic field house slated for Lewisville High School may or may not include a fire sprinkler retro-fit for the main classroom building, but will cost a total of $4.8 million, according to documents obtained from Lewisville ISD today.
  
  On November 12th, WhosPlayin requested backup information for [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  

• Hello to AM 1360 Listeners

  I got the opportunity to join in on the Jack Bishop show this morning to discuss the role of blogs as news outlets, and our tiff with Lewisville ISD and their anti-blogger policy.
  
  Jack and the gang were great to hang out with, which was [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:06am EST
  

• H. R. 3590

  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—111th Cong., 1st Sess.
  H. R. 3590
  
  Spending most of the last two days reading 2074 pages of House Resolution ~ 3590
  
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  

• Health Care Measure Passes Key Senate Hurdle

  Yea! The Senate will debate and pass this, then the conference committees will have to hammer out the differences between the House and Senate versions, then each chamber will vote again, then the President will sign.
  
  
  
  I think I hear some insurance company executives hopes for continued [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:35pm EST
  

• Local Happenings and Announcements - Lewisville

  From submitted reports - email ses@whosplayin.com with your items
  
  Holiday Yard of the Month nominations sought
  
  Keep Lewisville Beautiful is looking for Holiday Yard of the Month nominations. Nominees should be identified by address only. The person’s name and phone number making the nomination is optional. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  

• Thoughts on Friday Night

  Friday night - what a week! Here are my random thoughts tonight:
  
  LISD Salary Schedules
  Want to know what your public servants at Lewisville ISD earn? LISD has a Salary Schedule posted. But if you're looking at that $18 million shortfall and wondering if there is any' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

• Lewisville Parks Planning Meeting

  On Wednesday night, Lewisville Parks held a public meeting to discuss future directions for the city's park system. About 30 people attended the hour and a half meeting.
  
  

  Lewisville Parks Master Plan Public Meeting - Segment 1 of 3 [...]

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:20am EST
  

• Closed-Door Health Care

  As an American citizen, I need to be part of this very important decision on our health care. This is my health care, this is your health care, and this is all of our health care. This is not Congress health care package.
  
  If we are part of the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:30pm EST
  

• Board Approves Sprinklers for Lewisville High School, Power Line Relocation for Flower Mound

  Wow, what an interesting LISD Board meeting tonight. Lewisville had to fight to get LISD to do the right thing and agree to fire sprinklers for Lewisville High School, while Flower Mound apparently decided that it would only allow the same improvements to the Flower Mound HS [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  

• Texas Blog Roundup - Week ending 11/15/09

  The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week's highlights from the blogs.
  
  TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday the Wise County Messenger picked [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:55am EST
  

• Lewisville Interactive Crime Map

  Channel 8 - WFAA has a pretty cool interactive crime map for Lewisville. Check it out...
  
  (hat tip to JF for finding that) [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:50pm EST
  

• Local Happenings and Announcements - Lewisville

  From submitted reports - email ses@whosplayin.com with your items
  
  Holiday Yard of the Month nominations sought
  
  Keep Lewisville Beautiful is looking for Holiday Yard of the Month nominations. Nominees should be identified by address only. The person’s name and phone number making the nomination is optional. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:10pm EST
  

• Lewisville ISD Trustees May Approve Fire Sprinklers for LHS

  
  Lewisville ISD's Board of Trustees will hold their monthly public meeting Monday night, November 16th in the Board Room of the William T. Bolin Administrative Center, 1565 W. Main St., Lewisville, at 7 p.m.
  
  Download the Agenda
  
  One item of interest to us was' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:22pm EST
  

• Interview with Neil Durrance, Candidate for U.S. House - District 26

  
  
  
  
  Democratic Candidate for U.S. Congress, Neil Durrance will be speaking in Lewisville this coming Sunday, November 15th 11:30 AM at Abuelo’s restaurant – 2520 Stemmons Freeway. The public is invited. Food and drinks will not be provided [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:10pm EST
  

• Thoughts on the Eve of Veterans’ Day – 2009

  Today is the 234th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. November 10th, 1775 – a date drilled into my head by a bunch of screaming sergeants many years ago. At the age of 17, with the consent of my parents, I signed up for the USMC reserves, going [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:50pm EST
  

• Where-to-Go and What-to-Kiss Czar

  Submitted for your viewing pleasure.
  Thanks R.F. for posting this on fb for me to pass on to our readers here.
  
  http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/c ... t-obamas-new-where-go-and
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:20pm EST
  

• Texas Blog Roundup - Week ending 11/08/09

  The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a happy Election Day last week, and is already looking forward to the next one. Here are this week's highlights.
  
  TXsharon continues to report from a backyard in the Barnett Shale. Despite all the local and national press on drilling related toxins, [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:00am EST
  

• Local Happenings and Announcements - Lewisville

  From submitted reports - email ses@whosplayin.com with your items
  
  Lewisville High School Newspaper wins five national awards
  The Lewisville High School "Farmers' Harvest" newspaper staff recently received five national Gold Circle awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA). The Gold Circle is one of the' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:10am EST
  

• Thoughts on Videotaping Public Meetings - with Video

  Here lately in the Lewisville Area, we have had a couple of requests for governmental bodies to video record their meetings.
  
  Several citizens, including myself, T.J. Gilmore, and David Fogle have spoken to the Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees requesting that they begin to video-record their [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:10pm EST
  

• LISD Board Retreat Agenda

  We just now got a copy of the LISD Board Retreat agenda. We've been asking for it since Wednesday, though it should have been posted on the district's website, according to state law. So, over my lunch hour, I burned some gas to get over there and get a' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

• Thoughts on Thursday Night

  There are numerous reason why I write this blog. Today I had some opportunity to think about them. One of the reasons for it is my own therapeutic need to download my thoughts. I think while I sit here waiting for video to process, I'll do just that.
  
  Railroad' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:43pm EST
  

• Photos from Lewisville's Railroad Park Ribbon Cuttong

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• LISD Board of Trustees Violating Open Meeting Laws?

  We've just learned that the Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees is planning to meet for a Board Retreat on Thursday and Friday, though they have failed to properly post the notice of the meeting on the public website at LISD.net. (As of about 3PM today. Will post screenshots later if' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:30pm EST
  

• Thoughts on Tuesday Night

  I am so, so tired right now, but have a lot of stuff to get off my chest.
  
  Work
  My job continues to frustrate me. I am currently involved in making what should be a minor tweak to a very important chokepoint in my company's product. Unfortunately the programmers [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:26pm EST
  

• Texas Blog Roundup - Week ending 11/1/09

  The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you to get out and vote on Tuesday. Here are this week's highlights.
  
  Aruba Petroleum is drilling a Barnett Shale gas well in the backyard of Tim and Christine. Their property was taken, it's value diminished, they were threatened and now Aruba Petroleum [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:51am EST