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Vidacare Corp. eyes expansion and acquisition opportunities
Vidacare CEO Mark Mellin says his company is headed on a growth trajectory. Vidacare Corp. has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. While a host of other startups in the bioscience space have come and gone since 2001, this San Antonio company has positioned itself as a the preeminent player in the intraosseous arena. Vidacare is expanding domestically and internationally sales ...
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Software maker Datical raises $1M financing
From left, Robert Reeves, Daniel Nelson and Pete Pickerill are the founders of Datical Inc. Software maker Datical Inc. completed a $1 million financing. The Austin-based company collected the capital from 10 investors, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Datical, which was founded in 2012, develops database management software. It was launched by ...
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GVTC Foundation raises record amount at its annual golf tournament
The GVTC Foundation raised a record$110,344 for area non-profit agencies during its annual Charitable Golf Classic. The GVTC Foundations 2013 GVTC Charitable Golf Classic raised $110,344 for area non-profit agencies, besting last years record by $1,000. The foundation affiliated with Hill Country telecommunications provider GVTC Communications Inc. will use the funds to support nonprofit ...
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Life after 40 Under 40 Joe Tauscher on why metrics matter
Joe Tauscher I was fortunate to be honored by the Dallas Business Journal in 2006 when I was 28 and was the president of Checkpast, an employment screening services firm selling to large Fortune 1000 companies including Toys R US, Ross Dress for Less, Williams and Sonoma, ADT, Simplex Grinnell, Brinks, and State Farm. I sold the business the last day of 2009. My mission at the time, was to prove ...
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Lawmakers reach consensus on campus construction bonds
An agreement has been reached on allocating an additional $175 million for debt service to accommodate a major round of construction projects on numerous public university campuses across Texas. The Senate gave final approval to the measure House Bill 1025, authored by State Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie on Wednesday evening. The House had previously proposed $200 million in additional ...
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Gone fishin Dallas firm buys sells trophy sporting ranches
The ranches owned by Sporting Ranch Capital Management offer hunting, fishing and great views. Jay Ellis' business is all about the wide open spaces. It's about hunting for elk or mule deer and it's about fishing for trout. It's also about making money. Ellis heads Dallas-based Sporting Ranch Capital Management LP, which has nearly completed its first $30 million investment fund ...
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Solar Impulse airplane is setting solar-powered flight record in Texas
Solar Impulse plane landed in Dallas on Thursday, breaking the distance record for a solar-powered flight on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across ...
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Ammonium nitrate chemical behind texas explosion is all over the United States
Smoke rises in the distance about half a mile from the West Fertilizer Company, April 18, 2013 in West, Texas. A massive explosion at the fertilizer company injured more than 200 people and left damaged buildings for blocks in every direction. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty ...
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Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before assassination
DALLAS--Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling ...
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Texas approves $867600 in trail funding for San Antonio area projects
Texas Parks and Wildlife officials are pumping new money into the development of new state parks. Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission officials awarded $5.7 million in federal grants to fund the development of 33 recreational trail projects across the state. Of that total, $867,600 will go toward four projects in the San Antonio area. The Schertz Seguin Local Government Corp. in Guadalupe County ...
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Houston man charged in threats against synagogues
Prosecutors say bomb threats were called in to two Houston synagogues on April 30. The caller left voice mails with Congregation Beth Israel and Congregation Or Ami (or uh-MEE') saying both would be bombed on May ...
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Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- High school students in Virginia have finished building NASA a spinning chair that astronauts in Texas will use to practice being ...
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Deputy shot by Colo. suspect to return to work
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A North Texas sheriff's deputy has been cleared to return to work, two months after he was shot by a paroled inmate suspected of slaying Colorado's prison ...
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Video government meetings allowed under bill
AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences. The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public officials to use ...
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VIDEO Texas has 8 of the fastest growing US cities
HOUSTON (AP) — New estimates show Texas has eight of the nation's 15 fastest-growing cities.Estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show San Marcos in Central Texas led the way with a nearly 5 percent population boom between July 2011 and July 2012. That's the highest rate among U.S. cities with at least 50,000 ...
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Special Report Poor planning left Texas firefighters unprepared
A housing complex is seen after it was destroyed by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas, in this April 21 file photo. (Michael Ainsworth/Reuters/Pool) The fertilizer-plant explosion that killed 14 and injured about 200 others in Texas last month highlights the failings of a U.S. federal law intended to save lives during chemical accidents, a Reuters investigation has ...
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Body pulled from Inks Lake in Burnet
BURNET, Texas (KXAN) - The body of a young man was pulled from Inks Lake in Burnet on Thursday morning. Clara Tuma, a spokeswoman from the Lower Colorado River Authority said the victim was a teenager who fell from a paddle boat into the water around 11 a.m. Dive teams and rescue crews from several agencies were called in to help search. The lake was about 10 feet deep where the teen's body ...
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2500 doping tests planned for Sochi Olympics
MOSCOW (AP) — Sochi's anti-doping director says 2,500 drug tests will be conducted at next year's Winter Olympics, about 350 more than at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.Alexei Slautin, head of Sochi's anti-doping section, said in a statement Thursday on the Russian Sports Ministry's web site that another 600 tests are planned for the Paralympics.The World Anti-Doping ...
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Open Meetings Act to allow video teleconferences
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature has amended the Open Meetings Act to allow for video teleconferences.The bill sent to the governor on Thursday would allow public officials to meet using a teleconference even if a quorum is not physically present. Supporters say the bill will bring the state's strict rules for official meetings into the modern age by allowing public ...
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Orange Co. paves way for economic growth
Orange County Commissioners have unanimously approved a resolution to nominate International Paper as a double jumbo enterprise project and entered into a contract with iDocket.com for the company to provide public, fee-based access to records of the district and county clerk ...
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To lie is to steal
Is BISD a victim in this woman’s plot or should they be held accountable for not verifying Lambert’s credentials before passing over many others who might have been twice as qualified as she? Every student, parent, teacher and educator should contact Superintendent Timothy Chargois and the BISD board immediately and express - no, demand - that this fraud be heralded as a lie and ask ...
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40-year sentence in Beaumont murder
Deanna Edwards Wilson, 41, was indicted for the murder of Elkin Savoy, 58, whose body was found Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, burned and maimed as a result of an apparent ...
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End of an era at OHA
After nearly a decade at the Orange Housing Authority (OHA), president of the board of commissioners Mary McKenna has moved on to greener pastures, now representing taxpayers as a member of the Orange City Council instead. During the last few years of her tenure at OHA, McKenna has seen the departure of two executive directors; one was let go rather than outright fired after a report from ...
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Texas painter immortalizes fallen soldiers
Some artists paint to express themselves or as a form of therapy- to get out feelings trapped inside. Others use art as a path to immortality, using their works to carry on their own names. Ken Pridgeon paints to immortalize others - fallen soldiers who not only fought and died for their country, but were also mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, daughters and sons mourned by their families. On ...
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Lunch at the ranch
A group including local politicians, business and community leaders, and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies welcomed the consul general of Qatar, Faisal Abdulla Al-Henzab, to the ranch of former Jefferson County judge and business consultant Carl Griffith on Friday, May 17, to celebrate the blooming friendship and business relationship between Qatar and Jefferson ...
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Austin among the leading US cities emerging from recession
The financial crisis, now refered to by some as the Great Recession, has battered cities across the country, but Austin has become a pocket of hope where jobs are available and the population is growing, suggesting that the city may be among a few in the US leading the country out of the recession.
Austin has been ranked in the top 20 US cities with strong population growth, the study was done by the Census Bureau, this is a reflection of the sound economic performance of Texas as whole (the state had several of its cities in the top 20), and subsequently may be given four additional House seats following the 2010 census. Read more
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