Pray for a proper policy
The Lone Star State would do well to plan for floods
IN 2011 Rick Perry, then Texas’s governor, and now a presumed Republican presidential candidate, devised a policy to help tackle a severe drought. “Under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas,” he formally did “hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.”
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