Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 2012 Page: 3 of 12
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Crosby County News
Page 3
Board proposes budget for
. Capital
next biennium
By Ed Slutting
AUSTIN — To pass a bud-
get bill is the Texas Legislature’s
main job, but it is the 10-member
Legislative Budget Board’s job to
propose how much money the
state may spend.
At a Nov. 15 public hearing,
the Board offered up a 2014-2015
two-year state budget capped at
$78 billion per year, observing the
constitutional spending limit.
Comptroller Susan Combs has
another couple of months to
share her revenue forecast with
the budget-writing House Appro-
priations Committee and the Sen-
ate Finance Committee.
The 83rd Texas Legislature is
scheduled to convene on Jan. 8.
Among a multitude of budget
considerations are: (1) a state
population projected to be
greater than 27 million people; (2)
the business climate; (3) public
health; (4) public education; (5)
public safety, law enforcement
and prisons; (6) roads, highways
and bridges; (7) local govern-
mental institutions, and more.
Members of the Legislative
Budget Board, to whom much is
entrusted, are joint chairs Lt. Gov.
Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe
Straus, House Appropriations
Committee Chair Jim Pitts, R-
Waxahachie, Senate Finance
Committee Chair Tommy Will-
iams, R-The Woodlands, House
Ways and Means Committee
Chair Harvey Hilderbran, R-
Kerrville; and five appointees:
Sens. Robert Duncan, R-Lub-
bock, Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-
McAllen, and Judith Zaffirini, D-
Laredo; and Reps. Dan Branch,
R-Dallas, and Sylvester Turner,
D-Houston.
Remember, however: the
Legislature relies on the office of
the state comptroller to do the
critical job of forecasting the
amount of revenue that will be
available to pay for it all. Comp-
troller Combs and crew are busy
looking at tax collections, non-
tax revenue, unspent funds from
the current budget and the op-
tion to transfer in billions of dol-
lars from the Economic Stabiliza-
tion Fund, known widely as the
Rainy Day Fund.
Five months ago, the gover-
nor and the Legislative Budget
Board directed state agencies to
find 5 percent in savings for fis-
cal 2014 and another 5 percent in
savings for fiscal 2015.
Sequestration panel named
House Speaker Straus on Nov. 12
named an interim panel to recom-
mend ways Texas can prepare for
what now is commonly referred
to as the “fiscal cliff’ — a mix of
federal tax increases and spend-
ing reductions poised to take ef-
fect at the end of the year unless
Congress takes actions to avoid
the cliff.
The panel, titled Interim Com-
mittee on Texas Response to Fed-
eral Sequestration, will report its
findings to the speaker by Jan. 7,
the day before the 2013 Texas
Legislature convenes.
House members named to
the panel include Rep. Linda
Harper Brown, R-Irving, chair;
Republican Reps. Cindy Burkett,
Mesquite; Brandon Creighton,
Conroe; Dan Flynn, Canton;
Jodie Laubenberg, Rockwall; and
Charles Perry, Lubbock; and
Democratic Reps. Dawnna
Dukes, Austin; Craig Eiland,
Galveston; Naomi Gonzalez, El
Paso; and Eddie Lucio III, San
Benito.
Secretary of state resigns
Texas Secretary of State
Esperanza “Hope” Andrade on
Nov. 20 resigned from office, ef-
fective Nov. 23.
After more than four years
as the state’s chief elections of-
ficer, Andrade leaves office as
Texas’s fourth-longest serving
secretary of state. The San An-
tonio native previously served as
chair of the Texas Transportation
Commission, the agency that
oversees the Texas Department
of Transportation.
NTSB investigates accident
National Transportation
Safety Board sent a team to Mid-
land to investigate an accident
in which a Union Pacific freight
train struck a flatbed semi-trailer
at a grade crossing on Nov. 15.
At the time of the accident, the
trailer was being used as a pa-
rade float in an event to honor
veterans. Four deaths and 16 in-
juries were reported in the acci-
dent.
FI: impact totals to come On
Nov. 16-18, the new Circuit of the
Americas Grand Prix track near
Austin hosted its first Formula 1
racing event.
State and local agencies,
merchants and people who live
in the Austin area will be contrib-
uting information that will be used
to calculate the economic impact
of the event. When that calcula-
tion will be released is unknown.
What is known is the number of
gate receipts for the three-day
event, as reported by Circuit of
the Americas: total attendance,
265,499.
Secession petitions circulate
Following the election of
President Barack Obama to a sec-
ond term, a group has been gath-
ering signatures in favor of Texas
seceding from the United States.
Soon after, a reactive petition was
being circulated, attracting sig-
natures of Texans who prefer that
the state remain part of the union.
Gov. Perry, who in 2009 made
a public statement suggesting
that Texas might be better off on
its own, distanced himself from
the notion driving the pro-seces-
sion petition.
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Crosby Co. Sheriffs Report - - -
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November 20,2012
A 911 caller reported a domestic disturbance on the 1100 Block of
Watts. Ralls PD responded.
Caller reported stolen property on CR 193. Deputy responded.
Caller requested an ambulance on the 1300 Block of FM 2576. Ralls
EMS responded
Caller requested call for service on 207. Ralls PD responded.
A 911 caller reported a reckless driver on Hwy 82. Lorenzo PD re-
sponded.
Caller requested call for service. Deputy responded..
A 911 caller reported a domestic disturbance on the 1100 Block of Ave
P. Ralls PD responded.
A 911 caller reported a domestic disturbance on the 400 Block of Van
Buren. Lorenzo PD responded.
November 21,2012
A 911 caller requested an ambulance on the 200 Block of Farmer. Cros-
byton EMS.
Caller reported a theft on the 400 Bloc of Crosby. Crosbyton PD re-
sponded.
Caller requested call for service on Hwy 82. Ralls PD responded.
A 911 caller reported a domestic disturbance on the 100 Block of Berk-
shire. Crosbyton PD responded.
Caller reported animal at large on CR 168. Deputy responded..
A 911 caller reported an accident on Hwy 82, Deputy responded.
November 22, 2012
Caller requested a call for service. Crosbyton PD responded,
Caller requested a call for service. Ralls PD responded.
Caller requested call for service. Ralls PD & Deputy responded.
A 911 caller requested a call for service on the 1300 Block of Ave P. Ralls
PD responded.
A 911 caller reported harassment on the 1300 Block of Ave P. Ralls PD
responded.
Caller reported a call for service on the 500 Block of Ave P. Deputy
responded.
Caller reported a suspicious vehicle on Hwy 82. Crosbyton PD re-
sponded.
Caller reported stolen property on the 400 Block of Harrison. Crosby-
ton PD responded.
Caller reported an alarm call on the 300 Block of PM 1525. Deputy
responded.
A 911 caller reported animal cruelty on the 1300 Block of Tilford. Ralls
PD responded.
Caller reported a criminal mischief on the 200 Block of 11th St. Deputy
responded.
Caller reported a burglary on the 100 Block of 11th St. Ralls PD re-
sponded.
Caller reported an alarm call on the 300 Block of Main St. Crosbyton
PD responded.
A 911 caller requested an ambulance on the 600 Block of Durham.
Crosbyton EMS responded.
November 23, 2012
A 911 caller reported a fire on 207. Ralls FVD responded.
A 911 caller requested call for service on the 300 Block of Berkshire.
Deputy & Crosbyton PD responded.
Caller requested an ambulance on the 600 Block of Emerald. Crosbyton
EMS responded.
Caller requested call fro service on the 1000 Block of Ave E. Ralls PD
responded.
Caller requested call fro service on the 1100 block of Ave P. Ralls PD
responded.
A 911 caller reported a reckless driver on the 1300 Block of FM 40.
Deputy responded.
November 24,2012
Caller reported a disturbance on the 600 Block of Crosby. Crosbyton
PD responded.
A 911 caller reported a stolen vehicle. Lorenzo PD responded.
Caller reported an alarm call on the 1100 Block of 16th St. Ralls PD
responded.
A 911 caller requested an ambulance on the 200 Block of Polk. Ralls
EMS & Lorenzo EMS responded.
Caller requested a civil standby on the 600 Block of Grain. Crosbyton
PD responded.
Caller reported a gas drive-off on Hwy 82. Crosbyton PD responded.
A 911 caller requested a call for service on the 500 Block of Durham.
Crosbyton PD responded.
November 25, 2012
Caller reported a burglary on the 1000 Block of Ave E. Ralls PD re-
sponded.
Caller reported a fight on the 1500 Block of Ave I. Ralls PD responded.
Caller requested call for service on the 600 Block of Crosby. Crosbyton
PD responded.
Caller requested an officer at the 200 Block of 11th St. Ralls PD re-
sponded.
Caller reported stolen property on the 1000 Block of Ave E. Ralls PD
responded.
Caller requested call for service on the 1100 Block of Main St. Ralls PD
responded.
Caller requested a call for service on the 400 Block of Crosby.
CROSBY COUNTY NEWS
Phone 806-253-0211
817 Main Street - Ralls, Texas 79357
E-Mail Address - crosbycountynews@windstream.net
An independent periodical published weekly on Thursday of
each week except one week at Christmas and one week in the
summer at Valentine Publishing, 817 Main Street, Ralls, Texas
79357. Entered as periodical mail under USPS permit #000244.
ISSN number 1537-6214. Periodical Class Postage paid at the
Post Office in Lorenzo, Texas 79343, under the act of March 3,
1987.
Subscription Rates:
One Year in Crosby County - $36.00
One Year Out of County - $41.00
One Year Out of State - $46.00
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