Top 10 news stories for 2013

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The new aldermen are Dallas Blackiston, who took Bengel's seat in Ward 1; Patricia Schaible, who took Bucher's seat in Ward 3; and Jeffrey Odham, who won Outlaw's Ward 6 seat. The three remaining aldermen, Victory Taylor of Ward 2, Johnnie Ray Kinsey …
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Sweetwater Braces for the Coming Shale Oil Boom

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The surge of people and new money creates well-paying jobs and new revenue for small towns, but also can lead to housing and labor shortages, road damage and increased traffic accidents, crime and drug use. “I'm not saying that will happen, but that …
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The Tyranny of Success: Nonprofits and Metrics

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I first struggled with this problem in the '90s as Alicia's predecessor at the Bradley Foundation, helping to support the project that became the namesake for my present center at the Hudson Institute, the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic …
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North Texas Man Indicted in One of Five Suspected Deaths

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A rural North Texas man has been indicted of capital murder for one of five killings authorities say he carried out in a late October shooting spree. Charles Brownlow was indicted Friday in the death of Luis Gerardo Leal-Carrillo. The 36-year-old …
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