Waco Tribune-Herald News http://www.wacotrib.com/news RSS Feed for Waco News en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:09:05 GMT Parkside owners will not invest more in 'underwater' low-income apartments http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Parkside-owners-will-not-invest-more-in-underwater-low-income-apartments.html Officials at Parkside Village’s bankrupt parent company said Friday they consider the troubled subsidized apartments a financial liability, and they are not willing or able to invest in it further. For some Waco area patients, wait for government's hand in health care comes too late http://www.wacotrib.com/news/For-some-Waco-area-patients-wait-for-governments-hand-in-health-care-comes-too-late.html Two local women who died while waiting for liver transplants last year are examples of the life-and-death consequences that can be result from a rule that requires disabled people to wait two years before getting federally funded health care. Retiring Baylor professor throws hat in the ring for Averitt's Senate seat http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Retiring-Baylor-professor-throws-hat-in-the-ring-for-Averitts-Senate-seat.html Baylor University political science professor Gayle R. Avant added his name to a pool of candidates vying in a special election for the state Senate seat recently emptied with the resignation of Kip Averitt, R-Waco. DuConge Pool closed for good, to be transformed into water play zone http://www.wacotrib.com/news/DuConge-Pool-closed-for-good-to-be-transformed-into-water-play-zone.html The last of Waco’s traditional city pools is closed for good. City officials plan to turn DuConge Pool into a spray park. Waco bank customers could see changes as debit-card rules change http://www.wacotrib.com/news/88749247.html Baylor Law grad thought dead in lake accident http://www.wacotrib.com/news/88748172.html Mike Copeland: The day Five Guys faced a bun shortage http://www.wacotrib.com/news/88747837.html Waco news briefs for March 21 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/88747522.html Opponents attack U.S. Rep. Edwards' procedural vote on health care bill http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Opponents-attack-US-Rep-Edwards-procedural-vote-on-health-care-bill.html Local political activists on the right and two Republican U.S. House hopefuls seized on a procedural vote Thursday as purported proof that Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, hasn’t done enough to stop the health care overhaul bill he’s pledged to vote against. Waco public Montessori school opens up dozens of new slots for middle-school http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Waco-public-Montessori-school-opens-up-dozens-of-new-slots-for-middle-school.html The expansion of Lake Waco Montessori School’s middle school program means more choices for parents of rising sixth-graders.