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. >> reporter: kennedy has been cotton farming in lubbock for 22 years. one-third of his cotton crop has survived. now only insurance is saving his business from an $800,000 loss. >> but when you have zero rain, you just can't make it happen. that's one thing that i guess the lord has shown us-- we-- we have to have rain. >> reporter: here in the high plains of texas, just half the land is irrigated. so these days, as soon as you get beyond the line where the sprinklers reach, nothing is growing. in fact, 54% of the land used to grow cotton here is now abandoned. the land near lubbock accounts for two-thirds of all texas cotton, more than a quarter of all cotton grown nationwide. last year the high plains produced 5.3 million bales. this year it's expected to be just two million. as many as 11,000 cotton jobs >> we're just ready to get this to harvest and get 2011 behind us. >> reporter: cotton may be king in these parts but rex kennedy knows the weather still rules. the drought is expected to last at least through winter. ben tracy, cbs news, lubbock, te

avalanche journal a newspaper based in lubbock texas the average cost of indictment to execution alone adds up to one point two million dollars per person sometimes a trial team for these cases are over two hundred thousand dollars so it's a lot of newspapers reported it's far more cost effective and safe to instill a life in prison punishment and it's something death penalty and in fact this looks like preparing just doesn't play that way. i'm talking about the revolving door corruption cronyism whatever you want to call it it's rampant in our political culture these days and so we have another piece of evidence to prove it according to a study conducted by ledger storm nearly five thousand four hundred former congressional staffers have left capitol hill to become federal lobbyists and the past ten years they also found that almost four hundred lawmakers have made that jump from capitol to k. street and although not as prominent use the reverse as well six hundred five former lobbyists have taken jobs working for lawmakers in the past decade and that according to john ridley founder

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i went to school in lubbock, texas, back in the 1960's. at the end of what we call the dust storm era. and because of modern farming methods and so forth, they still have dust storms up there but nothing like what they had in the 1950's, nothing like what we had in the 1960's and i would argue because of good, modern farming methods, they keep the dust to a minimum but we still sometimes have half the state of new mexico blowing through the panhandle of texas. who are you going to fine? the state of new mexico? new mexico farmers? texas farmers where it lands? who is going to be responsible for the dust in the air. the e.p.a. says somebody is because they set regulations and that would be a violation. the biggest shortage of anything in this town is common sense. this is the most nonsense call rule of anything that's come down. one of our new freshman congressmen, congresswoman kristi noem, she knows rural america and knows the ridiculousness of this set of e.p.a. rules. she's come up with a farm dust bill we'll take up this winter to make