TribYear: Top Texas News of 2012
Only two of the state’s 38 public four-year universities can graduate half of their students within four years — and even then, just barely. At the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board reports, 53 percent of incoming freshmen graduate in four years. Texas A&M University graduates 51 percent.
Texas endured the most intense drought in recorded state history in 2011, and it has yet to bounce back. Water levels at a number of reservoirs remain significantly low, particularly in West Texas, which is drier than East Texas.
J.O. Dawdy, who has been a ...
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Christine Lund
Just wait until we have restrictions like some in California where they don't even have the right to collect rainwater on their own property. Or cut trees that are larger than 8 inches. Why doesn't the state employ the homeless, constructingDroughtMasters which provide up to over 20 gallons of water every 24 hours and sell them at cost to the populace? They are just large dehumidifiers. Why aren't the parks set up to collect rainwater like golf courses? Why have they waited until now to handle a problem everyone knew existed long, long ago? Who's in charge of this? Who has dropped the ball?