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Alternative energy developers cash in on area's ideal breezy conditions
Harnessing the Wind
BY D. LANCE LUNSFORD
AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
It's windy, man.
No, not that Windy Man, the disgraced concrete structure that state officials once planned to put around Lubbock highways.
Rather, it's the non-stop howling variety that is, more and more, bringing money to the region. Investors see potential in what people here have known for a long time about the South Plains and Panhandle - it's windy, man.
Craddick: No retaliation
11:30 AM CST on Friday, January 19, 2007 AUSTIN – Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick says the unprecedented coup that nearly ended his leadership was a signal that he had lost touch with some lawmakers, and he vowed not to retaliate against fellow Republicans – some of them trusted associates – who rose up against him.
