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WE, the undersigned residents and citizens of the State of Texas, petition our state leadership and elected representatives to urgently reform Texas water laws to protect our vital water resources, ensure long-term public supply, and address the unprecedented population growth which is causing our rates to increase to a non-realistic level. (This petition is presently being prepared.)
A woman just received a bill for $5,000, which is obscene, there is no advance warning of the increases or proper clarity, and the water company can disconnect her water after a 10-day written notice to disconnect. But what if she had been on vacation? Such a limited time is not reasonable to try to organize one's finances. This should be changed to a 30-day disconnect notice.
Under current Texas water laws - local communities are bearing the burden of sudden outrageous rate hikes. We think it is unconscionable for a water company to have such inordinate power.
The medical profession indicates that a person cannot live, especially in this hot, humid, climate, for more than three days without drinking water. Also, how does a customer flush the toilet?
We demand that a water company be unable to disconnect a residential household's water containing a chronically ill person, a disabled veteran, an elderly individual, or a low-income customer, because this would not only create a health hazard but could result in a life-and death situation because people cannot live without water.
When customers have called the water company to complain, they lie and say, "you must have a leak," when that is proven to be inaccurate, they lie again and say, "your meter must be malfunctioning."
There is a grass-roots campaign to STOP THE LEAK IN OUR WALLETS, and the Texas Public Utilities Commission, had better realize that it is inhumane to disconnect water.
After all, water companies have methods available to them to collect their money with liens, collection agencies, payment plans, etc., without placing a vulnerable customer's life in danger.
We must pass a law to prevent this abuse of power.
Water belongs to everyone, it is not a privilege, it is our right!
—Alinka Zyrmont
Today I received a lovely birthday present from my cousin musician Tomasz Zyrmont in London.
He sent me a cd of his latest music, TOMASZ ZYRMONT QUARTET, The London Manifest album. I liked the colour that the handsome brute put on the cover of his CD.
For those of you who like jazz, you can log on to his website for further information about his work: tomaszzyrmont.com.
You will also find a sample of his piano playing on you tube: Tomasz Zyrmont Music.
Creative talent runs in our dna!
— Alinka
The Lindsays of Balcarres, A Century of an Ancient Scottish Family in Photographs by Ludovic Lindsay, is a fabulous book with great photos about this enigmatic family I descend from.
Dundee-born romance author Alinka Zyrmont laughs that there’s a simple reason why she became a writer – because she’s terrible at maths! As a pupil at Dundee’s Blackness School in the 1940s/50s where her mum was a teacher, she used to daydream a lot…
(Read more about Alinka in The Courier: Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022: What makes a good story?)
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Flight attendant, Lucine Muir, is enjoying her job and condo on the beach in Florida, when she breaks her leg, and a man is murdered in Coconut Grove. Unexpected romance comes calling when an orthopedist loses his identity. She helps resolve the mystery with her sleuthing skills, and sails through stormy waters with her typical panache.
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I am ecstatic to inform my readers that after five long years of writing this book, it is finally available on in paperback. I tried to keep the price as low as I could so that history students could afford it.
When I found a bag full of old photographs that my mother had kept for years as her own secret, I displayed them on a table, and on the backs they had dates, places and names, and like a jigsaw puzzle a picture emerged, but there were many missing pieces of a story that was emerging about WW2...
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