Report on standard specifications for construction and maintenance of highways, streets, and bridges in Texas adopted by the Texas Department of Transportation on Nov. 1, 2014.

Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.

Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant in Harris County, Texas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.

Transcript of an interview with Paul Hudgins, U.S. Army World War II Veteran, illustrator, and author. Hudgins discusses his childhood in Texas; family history; enlistment in U.S. Army as a medic; staged in France on V-E Day; stationed on hospital train running between Germany and France; post-war college; artistic career; writing career; Honor Flight trip. Appendix includes illustrations and short stories by Hudgins as well as photographs.

Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundreds of other relatively autonomous black communities created at that time, the Upshaws sought a safe place to raise their children and create a livelihood during Reconstruction and Jim Crow Texas. In the late 1980s photographer Richard Orton visited County Line for the first time and became aware of a world he did not know existed as a white man. He went down the rabbit hole, so to speak, and met some remarkable people there who changed his life. The more than 50 duotone photographs and text convey the contemporary experience of growing up in a "freedom colony." Covering a period of twenty-five years, photographer Richard Orton juxtaposes his images with text from people who grew up in and have remained connected to their birthplace. Thad Sitton's foreword sets the community in historical context and Roy Flukinger points out the beauty of the documentary photographs. This book should appeal to anyone interested in American or Texas history, particularly the history of African Americans in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The book should …

The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes' debut collection explore the secret lives of people—how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants—and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly. In The Year of Perfect Happiness, the universe is recognizable but slightly askew, a world whose corners can be peeled back to reveal the strange and often comic outcomes of acting out your most self-destructive desires. It is also a winner ofKatherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction Series.

The main purpose of this guidance document is to help generators of industrial and hazardous waste follow state and federal requirements on classifying and coding these wastes, keeping proper records, and notifying the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality about the wastes, when required.

A book of maps of all the county roads in Texas with an index of all the roads and highways by county.

A travel guide to the Texas Historical Commission ten heritage trails areas with attraction information, photos, and maps.

Interview with Pamela Buchmeyer, an attorney, LGBT activist, and daughter of Judge Jerry Buchmeyer from Dallas, Texas. Buchmeyer discusses her education, marriage, coming out, divorce, adopting, her father's background and career, sodomy laws and his work against them, Dallas Pride, public housing and Walker v. HUD, race and politics, women attorneys in Texas, and reflections on being an LGBT activist. In appendix is a reproduction of the article "Buchmeyer vs. Dallas," by Dennis Holder, published in D Magazine in June 1991.

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.