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October 10, 2014
West High Football Has Long Been Terrible, but It's Coming Back Just Like the Town
It's a cliche, sure, but in the case of West, Texas' high school football team, it appears to be true. "The old saying is, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," says David Woodard, West High School's head football coach. "Our kids have gotten mentally stronger and physically stronger and it's ... More >>
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August 1, 2013
The Reality Behind the West Explosion: It Wasn't Truly an Accident
The plaintive tone is so heart-wrenching, the request itself so naïve, that one is tempted not to respond at all. But in the case of the West fertilizer explosion, silence is at least complicity. It may even be the heart of the crime. In an open-letter opinion column on the op-ed page of The Dalla ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2013
FEMA's Rejection of More Money for West Seems Fair Enough
Let me see if I get this. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is already paying Texas 75 percent of its costs for cleanup in West and making $8 million in low interest loans to individuals. But because FEMA ruled recently that Texas is capable of picking up the balance of the costs, our s ... More >>
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June 4, 2013
The Texas Rangers Will Host the Entire City of West, Texas in July
Free baseball tickets aren't going to rebuild the town of West, Texas or bring back the 15 people who were killed when a fertilizer plant exploded there on April 17. But it's certainly a nice gesture on the part of the Texas Rangers, who announced today that they've invited basically the entire city ... More >>
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May 10, 2013
Lessons of the West Explosion: Government Regulation Bad; Government Money Good
All I want is to connect the dots. You help me. Mayor Tommy Muska, whose town of West just suffered what has been called the worst industrial accident in the 15-year history of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, is on the front page of The New York Times today agreeing with Governor Oops that governme ... More >>
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May 3, 2013
West Fertilizer Neighbors May Not Have Known of Explosive Chemicals, but Meth Cooks Did
Investigators still haven't determined the official cause of the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people and injured at least 200 others in West last month, but all signs point to the large quantities of highly explosive ammonium nitrate that were stored there. What's also become clear is ... More >>