TxDOT Announces New Members of Leadership Team
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| Saenz expands administration to reflect changing role of agency AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas Department of Transportation today announced selections for the final three members of Executive Director Amadeo Saenz's leadership team. The new Assistant Executive Director for Engineering Operations is John Barton of Beaumont. The newly-formed office of Assistant Executive Director for District Operations will be lead by David Casteel of San Antonio. The newly-formed office of Assistant Executive Director for Innovative Project Development will be lead by Phil Russell of Austin. "John, David and Phil are all outstanding professionals," said Saenz. "All of them understand... |
Ric Williamson remembered at Weatherford High School
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| At the front of a quiet, dimly-lit auditorium inside Weatherford High School Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry and other friends eulogized the late Ric Williamson. Perry borrowed a quote from author Jonathan Swift to describe Williamson, who, as chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, was often at the center of controversy. “When a genius comes into the word, you will know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him,†Perry recited. “Jonathan Swift didn’t know Ric Williamson, but he pegged him.†Williamson, 55, was pronounced dead on Sunday after suffering an apparent heart attack while at... |
Shift may loom in toll road debate
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| Push for higher gas tax could follow chief's death The death of Ric Williamson, the fiery, whip-smart chairman of the state transportation commission, could upend the still-roiling debate over toll roads in Texas in the new year. Mr. Williamson died Saturday of a heart attack at age 55, sending shock waves through the nearly 15,000-employee department he led as well as the political and policy circles where his combative style and pro-toll-road agenda had engendered enormous change – and criticism. Always careful to credit Gov. Rick Perry, a close friend and former roommate, Mr. Williamson emerged as a lightning rod... |
Ric Williamson, transportation chief who championed toll roads, dies
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| As chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, Ric Williamson made major and often controversial decisions about the future of state roads. He died Sunday of a heart attack, at age 55, in his hometown of Weatherford, leaving a legacy as the hard-charging official that steered Gov. Rick Perry's divisive vision of toll roads across Texas into state policy. It was stressful work, and Mr. Williamson suffered two heart attacks while serving. He had known his health was fragile. "I'm trying to avoid the third one, which the doctors tell me will be fatal," he told Texas Monthly in a June... |
King of roads known for giving little ground
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| AUSTIN – State Transportation Commission Chairman Ric Williamson is proud that he can still work a bulldozer, a skill he learned early on the ranch and in the gas fields. Others would say he still drives it at meetings, committee hearings and town hall gatherings. Mr. Williamson, 55, is one of the most influential men in Texas. He has the ear of the governor, with whom he speaks almost daily. He is the architect behind the state's road plan for the next 25 years. He is smart, studious, self-made. And critics, who seem as endless as a West Texas highway,... |
Q&A: Liquid explosives
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| Q&A: Liquid explosives An alleged plot to blow up planes from the UK mid-flight and cause "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the plan "revolved around liquids of some kind". One theory is that the attack may have involved liquid explosive being carried on to a plane in either drink bottles or cans. Dr Clifford Jones, an explosives expert from the University of Aberdeen, says even... |
"Service to the Fleet"
Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:05:51 PM
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| The Ammunition Ship Crew Submitted by Archie Trader (USS Mount Hood Survivor) You can talk about your soldiers and the fighting mud Marines, Even talk about the Coast Guard and the Seabees, oh, so green, But you've never met a fighting man, a seaman oh so true Until you've met a sailor from an ammunition crew. His nerves of steel are legend and his eyes, they always gleam, He's always working cargo, sometimes even in his dreams. He's looking for some break time, and any scheme will do, Talkin''bout a sailor from an ammo ship's deck crew. Going into battles... |
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