A failed Republican candidate for State Rep. Paula Hightower Pierson’s seat is considering a lawsuit to challenge his 111-vote loss to former Arlington City Councilwoman Barbara Nash in House District 93.
Via the Star-Telegram:
Last week, Bill Burch was mulling whether to request a recount in the [...]
News reports Wednesday said Royal Dutch Shell Group would no longer sell gasoline to Iran, though industry [...]
In an overwhelming show of bipartisan support for President Obama's surge in Afghanistan, the House on Wednesday soundly defeated a resolution setting a timetable for withdrawal.
The vote, which marked the first time the House has had a full debate on Afghanistan since Mr. [...]
The National Rifle Association has a higher mean approval rating among likely voters than Barack Obama. This and other fascinating facts emerged from the Democracy Corps/Third Way national security survey released this week. According to its liberal authors, the "sobering" results of the survey [...]
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested by Pakistani security agencies in Karachi, has become "a vital asset in gathering information" [...]
"Alaska and Texas are the only states that declined to participate in the standards-writing effort. In keeping his state out, Gov. Rick Perry argued that only Texans should decide what children there learn." From NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/education/11educ.html
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We folks here in District E are lucky to have Houston City Council Member Mike Sullivan on our side. Mike Sullivan doesn't pull punches. He tells it like it is. It makes for interesting conversations. Speaking of....See a man off to prison with a 15-year sentence, you expect him to stay gone awhile. Which is why some in Rockwall are surprised to hear that Ray Sumrow is out on parole after [...]
The Lite Guv primary was an interesting race. One candidate, Ronnie Earle, had a decent amount of name recognition, a base of support in a vote-rich area, with likely secondary support in other populous counties, and electoral experience. He didn’t have a lot of money or establishment backing, however. [...]
This is not the sort of thing I want to see.
Mayor Annise Parker cast doubt Wednesday on whether the Metropolitan Transit Authority has the money to pay for two planned light-rail lines that proponents say are critical to the success of the agency’s plans.
Parker said members of her transition [...]
This, from the inbox, sounds very cool:
K12RADIOHOUSTON: HISD’s NEW SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
The nation’s first custom radio station created for a major school district
(Houston, Texas) No radio tower or transmitter necessary! The Houston Independent School District (HISD) begins live Internet streaming of K12RadioHouston in July of 2010 in preparation for students [...]
Sales tax revenue didn’t decline as much as in previous months.
In February, the state’s sales tax collections were down 8.8 percent compared with the same month a year earlier. Though still in the red, the February figure looked better than the previous months’ double-digit decreases that have put the [...]
Purposely trying to destroy the economies of Republican-leaning States?
Massa's In the Cold, Cold Ground
ANTI-DEATH PENALTY ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK Open to students and nonstudents alike, this weeklong program shows you what it takes to be an activist. You'll attend workshops, write press releases, speak in public, and more, as well as meet former prisoners who spent time on death row, family members' [...] Workers in Gothenburg, Sweden are the volvo spares kent that car buyers who have not driven one of the volvo spares birmingham that means Volvo hasn't been diverted from this heritage but also treads carefully when dealing with its latest XC70, a model a little further up the' [...]
Marcelas with his Grandmom and Sisters
I called a committed right-wing activist the other day and asked, “Do you support taxpayer-funded fire departments?” Angrily, he said, “No. Why should I pay to put out a fire of someone else’s home?” Well, I asked, [...]
Another 100 Trees for North Central Park
Just four months after the first 100 tree planting event, District VI Council Member Gene Belmares is inviting the community to come out once again and help him [...]
Let’s prognosticate!
I know I said it already, but my predictions for the two Republican State House candidate runoffs: John Frullo and Delwin Jones. I don’t think Frullo will win in November, but I think he is best-positioned within his party’s primary.
My predictions for contested City Council races: Mayor Tom Martin [...]
The war over Virginia's gays. [...] Collin County at bottom of federal funds distribution
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By JESSICA MEYERS / The Dallas Morning News
Collin County, known for its corporate headquarters and explosive growth, has a new distinction: The county reportedly receives the smallest amount of federal funds per person among the [...]
From sub blog headers
Yes, this is the “Betsy is too tired/lazy/busy to write a real post” thread.
Actually I am almost always too busy on Wednesdays. With the fall (see last thread for details) and the extra time at work, I haven’t even been to my [...]
Fox News is lying? What is next? The Pope is Catholic? Crackers are salty? Republicans are white? Teabaggers are racists?From Channel 8 news:
After months of study, seismologists at SMU say a saltwater injection well at the southern end of the airport is a “plausible” cause.
The injection well pumps fluids nearly three miles deep into the earth’s crust. This is how drilling companies get rid of waste water from [...]
On Wednesday, Shell announced that it had stopped selling [...]
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Iowa could become first in the Nation thanks to maverick GOPerApparently, there is some asinine petition from people calling themselves 'Senate Conservatives'. The first thing that told me this was a group of crazies is that they have selected for their leader well known liar and crazy deficit spender Sen. Jim DeMint.
The second thing was that they decided to [...]
When the film- maker Roger Graef approached me last year to make a film about the rise and fall of Detroit I had very few preconceptions about the place. Like everyone else, I knew it [...]
Former Houston Mayor Bill White (D-Houston) went on the offensive this week, taking aim at Texas Governor Rick Perry for, among other things, calling on state agencies to slash spending by five percent to prepare for a likely $11 billion budget shortfall next biennium.
White criticized Perry [...]
There is a moment in every war when it becomes necessary to wheel out the big guns, the heaviest weapons in the armoury. In the continuing war in Afghanistan, it is time to deploy the moral firepower of William Howard Russell, the greatest Times war reporter [...]
The city, the capital of Kansas, will unofficially be known as “Google, Kansas – the capital city of fibre optics” during March.
Officials in the town, which has a population of 125,000, came up with the idea for “just a bit of [...]
State Rep. Mike Villarreal (D-San Antonio) issued a press release Wednesday offering “lukewarm praise” to Texas Governor Rick Perry for appointing Secretary of State Hope Andrade as the state’s census ambassador.
From the press release:
“I trust that Hope Andrade will make the most out of the limited [...]
No, not me. I’m not there, and besides, I’m no good at liveblogging. Here’s all the coverage you could need, from people who actually are good at this.
First and foremost, the indispensable Texas Freedom Network.
Stephen Schafersman, blogging for the Texas Observer.
“It just defies' [...]
From Eric Dondero:
Newspaper of record for the Empire State Capitol
Even with one Travis County Democratic primary race race to be decided in an April run off, the campaigns for Austin ISD Board of Trustees and the Austin Community College Board of Trustees have already begun. The filing deadline was last Monday and Election Day [...]
Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling and others have proposed that the House GOP adopt an immediate, unilateral moratorium on earmarks. House Republicans will meet this morning to discuss the idea, and -- after House Democrats banned earmarks for private industry yesterday -- the idea picked up steam. In fact, it looks [...]
Didn't we say so? Doesn't EVERYBODY think so> Well, guess what....
Researchers believe that when wastewater from the gas extraction process was injected into that disposal well, it could have affected a nearby and relatively inactive fault line running along the Dallas and Tarrant county lines, "reactivating it and generating [...]
Well, at least we now have some idea of what Lloyd Kelley has been looking for.
The president and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority was accused in open court Wednesday of having an improper relationship with a female employee who works for him. That alleged relationship may include taxpayer-funded [...]
I actually do, too (believe in separation of church and state) , but it really grates on me that a church gets a big ole tax exemption FROM THE STATE while flying around in a 2.8 MILLION dollar Cessna
Copeland's Eagle Mountain International Church and the Tarrant Appraisal District settled [...]
From Good Medicine Magazine:Gov. Rick Perry just appointed John Moore as the new TYC ombudsman, a position that he left unfilled for four months.
Moore, of Denison, has a law enforcement and military background. He retired after 25 years as a U.S. marshal and also had worked as a state trooper and with the [...]
"Ex-Clinton Aide Looks to Death Row to Aid Her Defense," is the report written by Ann Zimmerman and Sephanie Simon for today's Wall Street Journal.
A former top aide to Bill Clinton, charged with trying to smuggle contraband to a death-row inmate, will ask a state court to allow a videotaped deposition [...]
Let me get this straight. The U.S. Supreme Court can choose a president it wants (Bush in 2000) or hand powerful corporations the legal tool they need to silence the voices of average Americans in elections, but no one should publicly criticize them? That seems to be [...]
There is no purpose to this post other than to share it with my girlfriends and Kary and Tom.
You are very welcome.
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