And finally, former Texas Governor Ann Richards has died. She was 73 years old. A Democrat, Richards served as Texas governor for one term before losing her re-election bid to George W. Bush. Her family says she was most proud of two actions that likely cost her re-election. Richards vetoed a bill that would have allow people to carry concealed handguns and another that many feared would have allowed the destruction a major underground water system that now serves nearly two million people in south central Texas. Under the banner of promoting a “New Texas,” Richards appointed more women and more minorities to state posts than any of her predecessors. One of her last projects, the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, is scheduled to open in Austin next year. Shortly before leaving office in 1995, Richards said: “I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'”