In case you missed it Friday night and can't wait for Sunday night's replay, here's the Mayoral "Debate" on PBS's "Red White & Blue" show. Turns out Gene didn't show up, even though he was invited and had agreed to show up. Maybe he was resting up, because the next [...]
Among the runoff elections, only one does not include a candidate that was endorsed by the Chron in the first round. That race is City Council At Large #1, and today the Chron made their choice for the runoff by endorsing Karen Derr.
[Derr] would bring to the position well-honed [...]
Shorter Burka: “KBH says in her new TV ad that she’s needed in the Senate. So why is she running for Governor?”
It’s a good question. And given that no one knows what KBH will do, it’s the reason why this keeps coming up.
Despite protestations to the contrary [...]
We already know why you should stay away from Steven Hotze. But Allen Blakemore is the Horace and Jasper to Hotze’s Cruella de Vil, and the same warning applies to him as well. But don’t take my word for it, listen to a dissatisfied customer of [...]
This is cool.
A deal between the city and Reliant has the electric retailer converting 10 of the city’s new Toyota Prius gasoline-electric hybrids into plug-in vehicles with greater fuel efficiency and the ability to recharge through a standard home power socket. Reliant is also installing 10 charging stations for [...]
Well, no. But they do seem to be levying bigger fines, so maybe their gums are a little harder.
By every measure, the agency is issuing more — and larger — fines, the records show.
“There’s been a shift to focus more on enforcement and compliance,” said the commission’s chairman, San [...]
“I thought we were bullied, personally,” Roy Morales told me this morning.
The conservative mayoral candidate was describing a lunch-time meeting he attended Wednesday with Gene Locke’s campaign manager, Christian Archer, at the offices of political consultant Allen Blakemore. The meeting was an effort on Archer’s part to secure [...]
Hell hath no fury like a fourth-place-finishing Mayoral candidate scorned!
[...]This weekend's football fare ...
REGION I AREA
Odessa (9-2) - 42; Arlington (9-2) - 70
Coppell (10-1) - 14; Plano East (7-3) - 0
Odessa Permian (8-3) - 15; Arl. Martin (7-4) - 25
Euless Trinity (9-2) - 41; Plano (5-6) - 38
NOTES: I'm not sure which [...]
A bit too little of time to blog today, but two "compare & contrast" arguments on health care reform that I'll suggest reading over the weekend:
» WaPo: Obamacare: Buy now, pay later (Robert Samuelson)
» WaPo: Health-care reform's grand bargain (Ezra Klein)
I can certainly appreciate Ezra's point about the' [...]
So, I didn’t get around to the news about NASA finding water on the moon until after I’d published my Friday Random Ten for last week. But the great thing about Fridays is that there’s always another one coming. So here I present to you ten moon songs.
1. Bad [...]
Here’s the full polling data for that KHOU/KUHF poll. Of greatest interest to me is the bit where they note that they asked people whether they’d voted in the November election; about 75% of them said Yes. Given that turnout for this election was about 20%, I find [...]
I know it's Friday and I'm supposed to do another installment of my funnies, but I have a beef. It's the Friday before our thanksgiving break, but all I can think about right now are management issues in education. Since I'm sure these issues are mirrored in industry I [...]
And we have our first poll from a source other than one of the campaigns, but like those two before it, this one shows Annise Parker in the lead.
The poll consisted of 500 telephone interviews with registered Houston voters who consider themselves likely to vote in the [...]
The 2011 legislative session is going to be so much fun.
Sales tax revenues have taken double-digit dives for five months running; in each of those months, the state’s income from those taxes has been more than 10 percent lower than in the same month the year before. In a [...]
Maybe you are, and maybe you’re not.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.
The amendment, approved by the Texas [...]
I don’t follow high school sports at all, but this Chron story about a battle between the University Interscholastic League (UIL) and the Texas Association of Sports Officials (TASO), about who has control over the officials at high school athletic events, was fascinating to me. I don’t have any [...]
The following is a message from HCDP Chair Gerry Birnberg:
CANDIDATES – ALL CANDIDATES – STAY CLEAR OF HOTZE
Steven Hotze is a hatemonger.
For nearly twenty five years he has stoked the flames of bigotry in this community like no other local politico. In the mid-1980’s he masterminded the repeal of the City of Houston [...]
» TX Monthly: The Great White Hope (S.C. Gwynne)
Read it while it's available. If I might highlight one element that has made me appreciate hizzoner's ability as Mayor, it would be this:
Though White prefers to govern by a sort of gentle consensus, he is fully capable of reverting to [...]
» NYT: Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers
I can relate to this ...
With Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers. For some, that's not small enough.Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can [...]
A smattering of Thursday reports to feed into the weekend frenzy that is Texas high school playoffs.
» Two big games on the schedule for Dallas-area 5A competition, and with enough navigation skills and good fortune of the earlier game wrapping up early, you might be able to catch both [...]
Longtime republican family values activist, Dave Wilson, who once led a successful effort to amend the city charter to deny benefits to divorced city employees, said he has sent out 35,000 fliers opposing the candidacy of Lt Governor David Dewhurst in part because of his marriage [...] 
Conservative voters remain up for grabs in the Mayoral runoff, so both Annise Parker and Gene Locke were out at the Pachyderm Club on Tuesday looking to grab a few of them. I found this bit to be revealing:
Parker outlined her public safety initiative to allow any certified peace [...]
The Texas Lottery Commission is fixing to bring Powerball to Texas.
The commission unanimously voted to publish rules for the game for public comment. If the panel gives final approval to the rules early next year, the first Powerball ticket could be sold in Texas on Jan. 31.
Texas already [...]
I just have one thing to say about this:
Firing another shot in an endorsement war that is pitting prominent national and state Republicans against each other, gubernatorial candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison landed her most prominent backer to date Tuesday when former Vice President Dick Cheney formally placed his name [...]
Back in September, I noted a deal that the City of Houston was working on with a firm called NRG to build a solar plant that would supply some of the city’s power needs. This deal has apparently hit a snag because it is a 25-year deal.
The city [...]
Obama campaign guru David Plouffe comes for a visit and gives his hope-y vision for Texas as a swing state.
[Plouffe] says Texas could soon become a swing state and drastically alter the landscape of state and national politics.
To that end, Plouffe is urging candidates to use the Obama model [...]
During the Rush Limbaugh program today, Limbaugh was discussing the stimulus package. He discussed the idea that the Obama administration would give a tax credit of $3,000 for each American job created by a small business. He claimed this was not incentive enough to actually create any jobs, but [...]
It’s almost too depressing to read through this KHOU story about local bigot Dave Wilson and his pathetic attempt to affect the outcome of the Mayor’s race, but it needs to be done. Here’s what I have to say about it.
- Dave Wilson is a reprehensible, sorry excuse of [...]
What did you do to celebrate?
Nov. 18, 2009, has been officially declared Riemann Hypothesis Day to celebrate the 150th anniversary of one of the key unsolved problems in pure mathematics. Mathematical events are scheduled across the globe to celebrate this special occasion.
The conjecture deals with the distribution of the [...]
