Monday, June 09, 2008

A post-convention Wrangle

CouldBeTrue at South Texas Chisme wants to know what the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is hiding when it permitted Asarco to restart polluting El Paso. Crony is as crony does.

BossKitty at BlueBloggin tells us about the Government Accountability Office's (GOA) revealing report to Congress on how tax preparers work in cooperation with banks to advance refunds which can greatly reduce your tax refund check, in Refund Anticipation Loans, Rapid Refunds, Sleazy Tax Preparers.

The live-blog of the contest for the state chair of the Texas Democratic Party was done by PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.

Off the Kuff conducted an interview with the communications director of the American Wind Energy Association on the state of wind energy in Texas and America today.

Kit of WhosPlayin thinks much of mainstream media coverage of late - especially with regard to the Democratic nomination is meant to distract us from the more important issues like Iraq, health care costs, and the mortgage market meltdown.

Texas Kaos has extensive liveblogging and video from the Texas State Democratic Convention this past weekend. Highlights include Chelsea Clinton's Two Messages for Texas Democrats, Sam Houston Makes The Case for Caring About the Judicial Races, and Senator Mario Gallegos Addressing the State Convention a year after he and the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus held off David Dewhurst's grab for your voting rights.

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