Mr. EVAN SMITH (Editor, Texas Monthly Magazine): And many of the people voting for Kinky are people who have never voted before because they don't like to play in the traditional game of politics, or they're young people who'll be voting for the first time.

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University of Phoenix Stadium is fantastic, and Glendale has greater odds of warmer weather during the first week of January compared to North Texas (Weather.com monthly temp averages for Glendale and North Texas).

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She has a monthly radio show, The Spark, on KRTS Marfa Public Radio in Texas, on which she converses with other artists about how they find inspiration.

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Temperatures averaged 88.9 degrees in Oklahoma -- the warmest monthly statewide average temperature ever recorded -- and 87.1 degrees in Texas, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.

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But the monthly distributions suddenly halted last spring, and Sweesy, 55, was slapped with two civil suits in Texas district court by 100 investors seeking undisclosed millions, claiming his sales were fraudulent.

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