"Paul C. Moreno" (born 1932) is a Democratic former state representative from El Paso, Texas/El Paso, Texas, USA. He was reared in the "El l Segundo Barrio" of El Paso. After high school he served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He then received his BBA from the University of Texas El Paso, and attended but did not complete his JD from the University of Texas at Austin [http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=7829088].

Moreno was first elected to the Texas House in 1967. He was the longest-serving Hispanic elected official in the USA, and presided as the Dean of the Texas House. He is a co-founder of El Paso Legal Assistance and a founding member of the Tejano Democrats.

He was defeated by Marisa Marquez in the 2008 Democratic primary for the 77th district.

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Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

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We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

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The bulk of those are in the South Bay.

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Virtually every portion of the community along the coast was impacted by a power outage because of the storm during the weekend.

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It takes a little while to come.

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The explosion did displace manhole covers — two round steel ones — and it also displaced a concrete cover as well.

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We were expecting quite a bit more from the storm. It turned out to be much milder.

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The average residential electric rate will increase by $1.46 to $67.64 per month. However, this will affect the largest users. For most customers, they will not see any rate increases.

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We just want to keep the flames away, otherwise there's really no trouble. We need to keep people at a safe distance because we need room to work so we can safely shut off the gas.

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