http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Home.aspxDaily Headline News Across Texasen-usCopyright 2010, KLBJ-AM-AMThu, 09 Sep 2010 10:52:03 GMThttp://emmisinteractive.comUndaunted by failure in last year's legislative session, supporters of a statewide smoking ban are gearing up to resurrect the measure to combat what they say is a public-health menace caused by secondhand smoke. Similar legislation died in the waning days of the 2009 Legislature despite the support of cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and an aggressive push by a statewide coalition of p...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276237http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276237Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:52:03 GMTHouston's acting fire chief has fired three firefighters, saying they were each culpable in an incident where a racial epithet was entered on an EMS report using an ambulance computer terminal. The head of the firefighters union called the firings a "travesty“ and said the department failed to determine who actually was responsible. A spokesman for Acting Fire Chief Rick Flanagan confirmed o...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276236http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276236Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:50:56 GMTPrograms that help the elderly and disadvantaged would be hard hit by proposed across-the-board cuts to the Bexar County budget, advocates for impacted nonprofit groups said Wednesday.    Edmund Keely, who serves on the City-County Joint Commission on Elderly Affairs, said reducing county contributions to outside agencies would hurt the elderly on several levels — “food and n...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276235http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276235Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:53 GMTTwo-thirds of the companies given taxpayer money from the job creation fund that Gov. Rick Perry has touted as a key reason for Texas' economic growth failed to meet their promises last year, a study released today finds.     In a study released Wednesday, the progressive watchdog group Texans for Public Justice compared Texas Enterprise Fund contracts to compliance reports that were...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276234http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1276234Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:21 GMTChurches, parks and even grocery stores morphed into make-shift yoga studios to offer free classes to Austin residents on Monday. Austin Free Day of Yoga started in 1999 to attract more people to the recreational activity. Since then, yoga instructors around the city have offered free classes over Labor Day weekends to show appreciation for their students. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/content/a...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274888http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274888Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:58:58 GMTLabor Day was the perfect backdrop for the buzz of a potential economic boom in the Southeast Travis County community of Elroy Monday, the site of the newest Formula 1 racetrack.  Talk of jobs and prosperity permeated the air at the Elroy Corner Store on FM 812 and beyond.   “Every Sunday, the cycling people, they come over here and they're asking about Formula 1 and they're r...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274886http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274886Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:57:33 GMTJudges at the State Fair of Texas' big Labor Day food competition favored the back-to-basics approach: beer and Frito pie. Fried, naturally. The Texas fried Frito pie won the top award, Best Taste. The fried beer was named Most Creative. The sixth annual contest -- decided by a three-judge panel -- was announced Monday morning at The Dock restaurant in Fair Park's Embarcadero Building. The top pri...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274885http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274885Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:56:32 GMTThe federal government is proposing to cut financial aid for some students in the fastest-growing sector of higher education — for-profit colleges and universities — saying they put students on a fast track to failure. The schools are fighting back, arguing the proposal would hurt the neediest students. "This is really redlining," said Kevin Modany, CEO of ITT Educational Services, whi...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274883http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274883Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:50:51 GMTMore than 10,000 times in the 12 months ending Aug. 31, oil and gas operators in Texas sank steel pipe into the ground and cemented it in place -- a critical process aimed at preventing groundwater contamination before and after a well goes into production. Texas Railroad Commission inspectors personally witnessed 1,561 of those surface casings, according to agency records. That represents only 15...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274613http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274613Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:11:11 GMTThe day before Michael Brown turned himself in Aug. 24 on a charge accusing him of beating his fourth wife, the Brown Hand Center's marketing department sprang into action. The department pulled from the airwaves some of the advertising that has helped make Brown such a wealthy and familiar figure in Houston, the former surgeon who, surrounded by his wife and kids, promises his carpal tunnel clini...http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274611http://www.590klbj.com/TexasFrontPageNews/Story.aspx?ID=1274611Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:09:11 GMT