Digital Musings of Tabitha Hawk

The wildfires ravaging much of Texas have now consumed at least 700 homes and left at least four people dead. Nearly 120,000 acres have burned in the past week. Meanwhile, Governor Rick Perry are under fire for cutting state firefighting funding from $30 million to $7 million annually. Perry has asked President Obama for a disaster declaration, which would pay 75 percent of the cost of battling the blazes.