Lunch Tomorrow

Too bad we didn't read this sooner. Seems everybody thinks the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a joke.

Host: Kit J.

Where: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

When: Wednesday at 12:00 p.m.

What: This is to be an informational and persuasive demonstration at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to demand that they stop their policy of secrecy regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). They still refuse to print anything about this bill in the hope that our ignorance will spell its passage; but we won't let that happen. Join us to protest this law and our media that refuses to publicize it. If this proposed treaty becomes law it could mean the end of so much we have fought for over the years.

Can you join us in Fort Worth on Wednesday?

It's back to Austin for the first frackquake hearing

Come to the state capitol on May 12 at 1pm 

Earthquakes across the country have been directly tied to fracking and fracking wastewater injection. And the frackquakes are happening right here in Texas.

In January, we took a bus load of concerned citizens from the Azle area to Austin to demand action. We listed our demands and got the attention of national media. A committee was formed to address our concerns.

 Now, the Subcommittee on Seismic Activity is having its first hearing.

AGENDA:
The committee has decided to hear invited testimony only, but it is important for concerned citizens to be present and make their presence felt. Demonstrating high levels of interest on this topic is the only way to keep things moving politically and is why so many in the media and government paid attention last time.

WHERE & WHEN:
Texas State Capitol Building
1100 Congress Ave
 Room E2 O36 Austin, TX

The meeting starts at 1pm.

Hope you can make it,
Sharon Wilson, Earthworks Texas Organizer

Keller Politics

Read the letter.

Then pay attention.

You can learn a lot from business owners and citizens.

You can lose a lot too.

Incoming from Haltom City

If you need another reason to vote for Trae Fowler, see the election violation below....

DOUBLE TAX ALERT

Obama proposes lifting ban on tolling interstates!

Sec. of Transportation Anthony Foxx unveils Obama's highway bill

Obama highway bill would lift Hutchison's ban on tolling existing interstates

Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ensured Texans were protected against tolls on existing interstates when she imposed a ban in 2007 after TxDOT sent a report to congress asking to do so.

Transportation Commission Chairman Ted Houghton has already floated the idea that TxDOT wants to turn I-35 in Austin into a tollway and turn SH 130 into the freeway (as a way of bailing out that failing toll road).

So TxDOT is salivating over the idea of getting a green light on slapping tolls on our existing interstates. The unlimited, unfettered ability to levy tax at the whim of an un-elected board ought to send shivers down your spine!

TURF along with Texans for Toll-free Highways (formerly known as the San Antonio Toll Party) will fight this proposal with every breath. A new group on the national level has finally come together to fight this, too, called Alliance for Toll-free Interstates. But we need your help!

TAKE ACTION!
Please contact Sen. Ted Cruz and respectfully ask him help us keep the Hutchison ban on tolling existing interstates. We need his help to stop this double taxation of Texans!

Question for Arlington

Do Mayor Cluck and His Council Need to Go?

YOU are invited

Transportation Town Hall on May 12th. This meeting will be a time to hear your questions, concerns, and ideas regarding transportation. Also, there will be a panel of six experts from the State and County providing presentations on transportation in HEB.

Where: Birdville Center for Technology & Advanced Learning, 7020 Mid-Cities Blvd, North Richland Hills, TX 76180.

When: May 12, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Who: This event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend

The Panelists for the event will be: 
Judge Glen Whitley of Tarrant County
Commissioner Gary Fickes
Brian Barth of TxDOT
Pete Havel of North Texas Toll Association
Vic Suhm of Tarrant Regional Coalition
Robert Hinkle of North Tarrant Express

The best article on Tarrant County Earthquakes comes from....Dallas

Earthquakes and the Texas Miracle.

Mind you it didn't mention the activist meeting where the new concerned citizens group was formed and got those people on an Austin bound bus, nor did it investigate why the Reno Mayor tried to cancel a meeting with candidates from all over the state 24 hours in advance, but in this quality news drought area, we'll take what we can get.
 
In the nearly 35 years since she’d anchored her dinner bell on these 11 and a half acres, she’d never felt an earthquake until November 6, 2013. She could look back 150 years, and the historical record would bear no evidence of seismic activity in the area until now. Yet in the last month, there had been more than 20 quakes.

In Reno, residents were advised to boil their water when a 10-inch main broke in two places and 40,000 gallons emptied into the earth. In Azle schools, the children practiced taking cover beneath their desks, just in case the big one struck and the roof collapsed. Whatever novelty the earthquakes held at first had been dissipated by claims home insurance wouldn’t cover and the sound of thunder in a cloudless sky.

Data Shows High Chemical Levels In Denton Air - CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

A California lab showed benzene readings at 6.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air. That is two points higher than the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s limits for long-term exposure risks.

A TCEQ monitoring network that the city refers visitors to on its website does not have equipment in that immediate neighborhood

Arlington's freeways a thing of the past?

360 Tollway Project to convert free lanes to toll lanes in DFW.