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U.S. gasoline prices decline amid hurricane recovery
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COPPELL, Texas (AP) — Retail gasoline prices in Texas and across the
country declined this week as recovery continues from hurricanes Harvey and
Irma.
AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump statewide
was down 4 cents to settle at an average $2.48 per gallon. Nationwide
gasoline prices dropped a nickel to an average $2.60 per gallon.
Association experts say gasoline prices are declining as more refineries
resume operations since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in South Texas on
Aug. 25. Irma this month pounded parts of Florida.
AAA officials say Amarillo has the cheapest gasoline in Texas this week at
an average $2.34 per gallon. Drivers in Dallas and Fort Worth face the highest
gasoline prices in the state at an average $2.51 per gallon.
AUSTIN,Texas (AP) —Travis County prosecutors say in a court filing that
state Rep. Dawnna Dukes spent more than $51,000 on an online psychic,
appeared for work at the Capitol impaired and hid a cellphone from
investigators.
The filing this week was provided by prosecutors ahead of her Oct. 16
misdemeanor corruption trial and is meant to inform Dukes'attorneys of the
allegations prosecutors will assert during trial.
The Austin Democrat is accused of giving a taxpayer-funded raise to a
legislative aide to cover gas money for shuttling Dukes'daughter back and
forth from school.
The Austin American-Statesman reports that prosecutors still want
to present a felony case against the lawmaker, alleging that she falsified
reimbursement vouchers.
Dukes'attorney, Dane Ball, declined to comment on this week's court filing.
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Today is Friday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2017.
There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives
at 4:02 p.m. Eastern time.
Today's Highlight in History:
On September 22,1862, President Abraham
Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation
Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states
should be free as of January 1,1863.
On this date:
In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, Capt.
Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged as a spy by the
British in New York.
In 1792, the French First Republic was proclaimed.
In 1917, the silent comedy-drama "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Fa rm," starring Mary Pickford, was
released.
In 1927, GeneTunney successfully defended his
heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey
in the famous "long-count"fight in Chicago.
In 1938, the musical comedy revue
"Hellzapoppin"'starring Ole (OH'-lee) Olsen
and Chic Johnson, began a three-year run on
Broadway.
In 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic
bomb.
In 1950, Omar N. Bradley was promoted to the
rank of five-star general, joining an elite group
that included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas
MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H.
"Hap" Arnold.
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AUSTIN — Insurance
may have covered only 25
to 45 percent of Houston
houses flooded by Tropical
Storm Harvey, but that’s not
because it wasn’t available to
homeowners
The National Flood
Insurance Program, or NFIP, a
part of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, under-
writes most coverage and
actually requires property
owners to buy insurance in
many cases.
Still, that ignorance of
flood-insurance rules is one
reason that Harvey has left a
whopping tab for uninsured
residential costs in the wake
of a total loss estimated at
$25 to $37 billion, according
to CoreLogic, an analytics
company.
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homes with mortgages in “some people think that they create accurate flood maps, an Reach him at jaustin@cnhi.
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In this Aug. 27 photo, residents are rescued from their homes surrounded by floodwaters
“About 40 percent of people from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston.
believe homeowner insurance
covers flood damage,” Robert
W. Klein, director of Georgia insurance.” they do not.”
State University’s Center But, Dixon wrote, “only 20 For example,
for Risk Management and to 30 percent of homes without researching New York City,
Insurance Research, said in a mortgages in high-risk flood he “found that 16 percent of atic, as Klein pointed out in
telephone interview. “That is zones carry flood insurance, homeowners who thought a recent report published in
not the case.” Homes outside the high-risk they had flood insurance actu- The Conversation.
However, a host of other flood zone have even lower ally did not — and that is in
factors contributed to the participation rates, often only an area that recently expe- House isn’t helping,” Klein
wrote. “Trump’s proposed
budget would cut NFIP spend-
Dixon advocates increasing ing on flood mapping by $190
believed they were covered, Sugarland-Baytown-area the number of homeowners million.
and they remain unresolved, properties are at high/moder- with flood coverage. “In August, shortly before
Urban expansion is one. ate risk of flooding, but lie out- “The most effective strat- Harvey made landfall, he
an Obama-era
mandatory purchase require- executive order to establish
As for knowing whether ment, perhaps expanding a federal flood risk manage-
Klein said, you’re in a flood zone, the the requirement to all homes ment standard for public
to public can access information, in the high-risk flood zones, infrastructure;
change and for many people it but Klein said people may not regardless of mortgage,”
know how to find it. he wrote in the RAND blog, detailed suggestions to
And, Klein said, the infor- “Policymakers could also address other shortcomings
for almost all mortgaged mation “is often outdated ... consider extending the man- with the NFIP’s status quo.
houses in high-risk, 100-year before FEMA comes back and datory purchase require-
floodzones. changesit.” ment to the 500-year flood importance
But it’s not mandatory for There are also pocketbook zone, perhaps with a lower accurate information on flood
un-mortgaged houses or those issues. requirement on the amount risks,
not in high-risk flood zones. The Associated Press of coverage that needs to be
Economist Lloyd Dixon, reported that based on FEMA purchased;
director of the RAND data, flood-insurance rates in
Center for Catastrophic Harris County, which contains phone interview, “a low num- years,” Dixon said.
Risk Management and Houston, rose 8 percent from ber of people are going to buy
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