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Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $468 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $468 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $468 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: June 8, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $483 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $483 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $483 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: September 8, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Constitution :  Includes Amendments Through the November 8, 2011 Constitutional Amendment election (open access)

Texas Constitution : Includes Amendments Through the November 8, 2011 Constitutional Amendment election

This document contains information about the Texas Constitution and new amendments for the year 2011.
Date: November 8, 2011
Creator: Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Skill Standards Board Briefing Materials: October 16, 2012 (open access)

Texas Skill Standards Board Briefing Materials: October 16, 2012

Briefing materials compiled for a meeting of the Texas Skill Standards Board (TSSB) held October 16, 2012 in the 5th Floor Board Room in Austin, Texas. The materials include the meeting agenda, minutes of the previous meeting, the annual report of the TSSB, memoranda and other supplementary materials for discussion.
Date: October 8, 2012
Creator: Teacher Retirement System of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analyses of Proposed Constitutional Amendments: November 8, 2011, Election (open access)

Analyses of Proposed Constitutional Amendments: November 8, 2011, Election

"The Analyses of Proposed Constitutional Amendments contains, for each proposed amendment that will appear on the November 8, 2011, ballot, the ballot language, an analysis, and the text of the joint resolution proposing the amendment. The analysis includes background information and a summary of comments made during the legislative process about the proposed constitutional amendment by supporters and by opponents" (p. 3).
Date: November 8, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Fire Protection Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2019-2023 (open access)

Texas Commission on Fire Protection Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2019-2023

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Commission on Fire Protection describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
Date: June 8, 2018
Creator: Texas Commission on Fire Protection
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Water Development Board Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2019-2023 (open access)

Texas Water Development Board Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2019-2023

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Water Development Board describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
Date: June 8, 2018
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Linda Pina, April 8, 2013

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Interview with Linda Pina, a cousin of UNT interviewer Francis Bravo from Fort Worth, Texas, interviewed for for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience project. Pina discusses growing up, school, her parents' divorce, and her own children and their education. In appendix is Bravo and Pina's family tree.
Date: April 8, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Pina, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Kelly Sanders, August 8, 2013

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Interview with Kelly Sanders, owner of Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair, Denton’s first LGBT-friendly bar. She recalls her childhood in East Texas and in Gainesville, Texas; brief marriage to a man; coming out narrative; experiences managing bars in Dallas; experiences during the AIDS crisis; relationships with LGBT community; decision to open Mable Peabody’s, and experiences there.
Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Sanders, Kelly
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Donald Maynard, June 8, 2013

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Donald Maynard, pilot and flight engineer for Braniff International Airways, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. In the interview Maynard discusses his experiences in aviation, being the first pilot hired at Braniff that wore glasses, the culture of Braniff, and its impact on the airline industry as a whole.
Date: June 8, 2013
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Maynard, Donald
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Milan Reban, April 8, 2017

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Transcript of an interview with Dr. Milan Reban, Professor emeritus of the UNT Political Science department and political activist, conducted in Richardson, Texas on April 8, 2017. Reban discusses his family background and experiences as a native of Czechoslovakia and survivor of the Nazi and Soviet invasions of that country, defection from Czechoslovakia and travel to the U.S, his education at the University of Miami and Michigan State University, and academic career at UNT.
Date: April 8, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Michael; Friauf, Betsy & Reban, Milan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Paul Anthony Sovik, November 8, 2010

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Transcript of an interview with Paul Anthony Sovik, U.S. Marine Corps (1st Marine Division) World War II veteran. Sovik discusses his family life and childhood in Ohio, decision to enlist with the Marine Corps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, experiences with the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and post-war life.
Date: November 8, 2010
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin & Sovik, Paul Anthony, 1920-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview With Thanh Kim Huynh, December 8, 2012

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Transcript of an interview with Thanh Kim Huynh, Vietnamese-born immigrant to Carrollton, Texas for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Huynh discusses concerning his childhood in Vietnam; memories of the Vietnam War; experiences as a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnamese Army; evacuation to Guam; transfer to the U.S.; life in America; culture shock; settlement in Dallas-Fort Worth area; immigration process as a refugee; considering America “home;” Dallas Vietnamese community. Appendix includes photos of Thanh Kim Huynh [3 pages].
Date: December 8, 2012
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Huynh, Thanh Kim, 1953-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary Finley, August 8, 2013

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Transcript of an interview with Mary Finley, administrator and co-founder of the UNT Ally program, concerning building LGBT resources at the UNT library and Ally program; Safe Zone programs; faculty training to support LGBT students in the DFW Metroplex; education and work experiences; influence to become an Ally; support of the gay community.
Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Finley, Mary, 1950-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert "Bob" Kimber and Rita Kimber, August 8, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with with Robert and Rita Kimber, homesteaders and simple life advocates concerning their childhoods; early experiences with gardening and the outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life.
Date: August 8, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Kimber, Robert & Kimber, Rita
System: The UNT Digital Library