Current Event Activity 4.1

                          Current Event Activity 4.1

1. Glenn Allen Hegar Jr is an american attorney who serves as Texas State Comptroller of Public Accounts. He's question is "Is the sky falling in Texas?"West said "Hegar, who in October lowered his projection for state revenue in the current budget by $2.6 billion people of falling fossil fuels prices." 

Hegar says"but if you also look at the long-term trends we've have a lot of tailwinds behind us as well" Hegar says senators expressed concern about what slumping oil  and gas prices would mean for state coffers.Driven by a surplus of supply, the price of oil has fallen about 70 percent since mid-2014. Hegar also says that the low prices might be devastating for towns that depend on the oil industry , Texas will be fine hegar says . 

2. Donald trump campaign said tuesday that the republican front runner would not participate in thursday presidential debate, the last one before mondays Iowa caucuses.The Democratic said , Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are at odds over whether to participate in a newly proposed debate to be held Feb. 4 five days before New Hamshire's Feb.9 primary . the event is not sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee.

3.  . It is said to have caused approximately 400,000 deaths, one of the highest ratios of fatalities to combatants of any war in South America in modern history The greater sao paulo ranked as the most populous ,  in the America , the Southern Hemisphere, and the world's 10th biggest metropolis .The city is the capital of the state  of sao Paulo , Brazil's most popluar and wealth  state. It exerts strong regional influence in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment and a strong international influence.The name of the city honors Saint Paul of Tarsus.
4.His skills in trial also extended to other cases. I can recall being in court one day when a visibly rattled Vic Wisner came in. He was actually trying to keep from crying. When I asked him what was wrong with him since I was unaware of the fact that Vic even had tears, he told me he had just seen Craig give one of the most amazing closing arguments on an Intoxication Manslaughter that he had ever seen.
5. Kennth "ken" Paxton For two years beginning in January 2013, Paxton was a Republican member of the Texas Senate for District 8, which includes the central-western portion of Collin County and parts of such surrounding cities as Allen, Frisco, and McKinney, Texas.^[3] For 10 years beginning in 2003 to 2013, Paxton represented District 70 member in the Texas House.
6.The Longhorns have won 27 total conference championships in men's basketball and have made 32 total appearances in the NCAA Tournament 11th-most appearances all time, with a 35–35 overall record, reaching the NCAA Final Four three times 1943, 1947, 2003 and the NCAA Regional Finals Elite Eight , seven times. As of April 2015, Texas ranks third among all Division I men's basketball programs for total NCAA Tournament games won without having won the national championship 35, tied with Purdue, trailing only Illinois 40 and Oklahoma 37.
7.Abe Vigoda, the sad-faced actor who emerged from a workmanlike stage career to find belated fame in the 1970s as the earnest mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit sitcom “Barney Miller,” died on Tuesday morning in Woodland Park, N.J. He was 94, having outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure

His daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told The Associated Press that Mr. Vigoda had died in his sleep at her home.Mr. Vigoda, tall and graying with a long face, sturdy jaw and deep-set eyes, was a 50-year-old stage actor who had earned his stripes on and off Broadway performing Shakespeare, Strindberg and Shaw when he got his big Hollywood break, winning the role of Salvatore Tessio in Francis Ford Coppola’s epic 1972 adaptation of the Mario Puzo novel “The Godfather. Mr. Vigoda, who was of Russian-Jewish descent, told Vanity Fair magazine in 2009. “I’m an actor who spent his life in the theater. But Francis said, ‘I want to look at the Mafia not as thugs and gangsters but like royalty in Rome.’ And he saw something in me that fit Tessio as one would look at the classics in Rome.”