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'This is the Wizard. At the tone, record your message..'
      The campaign of Brian K. Walker, the man who would like to be state representative in District 11, has an eerie resemblance to the Wizard of Oz. While his image was on the TV screen, Mr. Walker talked the talk - but who has been pulling the strings in the control booth next to the talking head?
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HIGH POINTS from El Camino Real
      L ots of folks along El Camino Real are ready to tell 2008 good-bye and get on with 2009. A long election year, Hurricane Ike, a shaky national economy and no state football championship was enough to depress the best of us. This is the 604th time that I've sat down to hammer out four bits' worth of news.
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ALL THINGS historical
      F or longer than most of us can remember, Texans have been squabbling over which community is the state's oldest. The principal players in this ongoing feud are a couple of East Texas cities, Nacogdoches and San Augustine, and a West Texas village, Ysleta.
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