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Giant 15,000 pound tree graces UT campus

How many workers does it take to plant a tree?

At the University of Texas it took at least 25 people and 50 spectators.

That’s because the live oak tree they planted weighs about 15,000 pounds.

A crane lifted the tree over six stories into the AT&T Education and Conference Center courtyard Saturday.

The 25-foot tall, 25-feet wide tree was selected because it looks like a classic hill country oak.

It took three months to get the tree ready for the move and almost a full morning to put it in place.

“It’s slow moving, very tedious, very specialized. And we definitely don’t want to drop it,” Ann Coleman, a landscape architect said.

The tree cost about 30,000.

It will sit in the third floor of the conference center.

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The Senate couldn’t decide what to do about gas prices and climate change…so they went home to blow stuff up.

Both parties have gone home for the 4th of July holiday, leaving tax breaks and renewable energy production documents in the chamber.

Really dispelling that “do-nothing” Congress nickname, guys.

Not saying that Congress did nothing this year.

There was that stimulus package.

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Archbishop Raymond Burke heads up the Vatican Supreme Court now.

As of yesterday, he is the first American to hold the position.

The Archbishop from St. Louis is the one who denied communion to John Kerry because Kerry supported the right to abort.

What about the right to say, “No father, I have not sinned.”

It’s hard enough to walk a few miles in sneakers.

But Neil Sauter crossed the state of Michigan…in stilts.

Two months and six stilts later, Sauter had travelled 830 miles.

And raised more than 64-thousand dollars for cerebral Palsy.

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A-T-&-T is moving their headquarters to downtown Dallas.

The telecom giant’s home base is in San Antonio right now.

It’s taking more than 700 workers along for the move.

The San Antonio Economic Development Foundation says they didn’t see it coming.

The company had been asking for more non stop flights to New York and other large cities… But D/FW had more…

When it’s all said and done, AT&T will be the second largest company in the D-F W area.

More than 5,000 tech jobs will stay in San Antonio.