The Texas Progressive Alliance cautions you to drive carefully through school zones as it brings you this week's roundup of the best lefty blog posts from across the state.
Off the Kuff has had many things to say about the Rick Perry's indictments, while Harold Cook sounded some cautionary notes about them.
Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos notes that a little ol' indictment is not stopping Rick Perry from a POTUS run in 2016. Swaggering through New Hampshire to kiss the Koch ring, Rick Perry portrays W 2.0 in Cowboy Diplomacy Redux: Rick Perry Plays the Fear Card.
WCNews at Eye on Williamson sees the media and the Texas GOP trying to make Republicans look reasonable when it comes to expanding Medicaid. Don't fall for it: Texas Is A Wasteland For Public Support.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants everyone to remember that damn fence is just a monument to racism and fear. What else does it do except cause trouble?
Why can't Obama be more like LBJ and just get some things done, PDiddie at Brains and Eggs wondered. But just in a facetious way; if we ever had another president half as badass as LBJ, we'd come to regret it.
Neil at All People Have Value went to the Texas City Buc-ee's. Neil wishes that trendy restaurants in Houston had a sign up like at the Buc-ee's saying that their staff earned a wage higher than the minimum. All People Have Value is one page of many at NeilAquino.com.
With students and teachers going back to school this week, Texas Leftist has an assignment for everyone. Is your school district one of 600 suing Greg Abbott and the Texas GOP-led legislature? Consult the list and map to see. Here's a hint... It's not just the schools in blue counties.
Egberto Willies again warns Democrats of Rand Paul's triangulation.
And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Texas Vox points out the nuclear reactors that are costing Texans money without generating any electricity.
Socratic Gadfly's Greg-Abbott-movie-trailer text of the week is #CPRIT.
Beyond Bones has a problem with "Shark Week".
Lone Star Ma is still writing about National Breastfeeding Month.
The Rivard Report is not writing about gun control.
Grading Texas responds to TAB's Bill Hammond about school ratings.
Very Very Urban has a photo that's worth at least a thousand words.
Newsdesk looks at the effort to kick Eden Foods out of the Wheatsville Co-Op.
The Texas Election Law Blog has a historical analysis of the Voting Rights Act, pre-clearance, and redistricting.
Lone Star Q notes that some companies that have strong LGBT equality policies nonetheless have no problem contributing financially to candidates that oppose such equality.
'stina puts the Ice Bucket Challenge into some context.
And finally, kudos to Media Matters For America for recognizing the difference between how the Texas press covered the Rick Perry indictment and how the national press covered it. To help some of those national pundits understand what the indictments are about, Craig McDonald and Andrew Wheat of Texans for Public Justice wrote a piece for Politico explaining why they filed their complaint in the first place.
Off the Kuff has had many things to say about the Rick Perry's indictments, while Harold Cook sounded some cautionary notes about them.
Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos notes that a little ol' indictment is not stopping Rick Perry from a POTUS run in 2016. Swaggering through New Hampshire to kiss the Koch ring, Rick Perry portrays W 2.0 in Cowboy Diplomacy Redux: Rick Perry Plays the Fear Card.
WCNews at Eye on Williamson sees the media and the Texas GOP trying to make Republicans look reasonable when it comes to expanding Medicaid. Don't fall for it: Texas Is A Wasteland For Public Support.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants everyone to remember that damn fence is just a monument to racism and fear. What else does it do except cause trouble?
Why can't Obama be more like LBJ and just get some things done, PDiddie at Brains and Eggs wondered. But just in a facetious way; if we ever had another president half as badass as LBJ, we'd come to regret it.
Neil at All People Have Value went to the Texas City Buc-ee's. Neil wishes that trendy restaurants in Houston had a sign up like at the Buc-ee's saying that their staff earned a wage higher than the minimum. All People Have Value is one page of many at NeilAquino.com.
With students and teachers going back to school this week, Texas Leftist has an assignment for everyone. Is your school district one of 600 suing Greg Abbott and the Texas GOP-led legislature? Consult the list and map to see. Here's a hint... It's not just the schools in blue counties.
Egberto Willies again warns Democrats of Rand Paul's triangulation.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Texas Vox points out the nuclear reactors that are costing Texans money without generating any electricity.
Socratic Gadfly's Greg-Abbott-movie-trailer text of the week is #CPRIT.
Beyond Bones has a problem with "Shark Week".
Lone Star Ma is still writing about National Breastfeeding Month.
The Rivard Report is not writing about gun control.
Grading Texas responds to TAB's Bill Hammond about school ratings.
Very Very Urban has a photo that's worth at least a thousand words.
Newsdesk looks at the effort to kick Eden Foods out of the Wheatsville Co-Op.
The Texas Election Law Blog has a historical analysis of the Voting Rights Act, pre-clearance, and redistricting.
Lone Star Q notes that some companies that have strong LGBT equality policies nonetheless have no problem contributing financially to candidates that oppose such equality.
'stina puts the Ice Bucket Challenge into some context.
And finally, kudos to Media Matters For America for recognizing the difference between how the Texas press covered the Rick Perry indictment and how the national press covered it. To help some of those national pundits understand what the indictments are about, Craig McDonald and Andrew Wheat of Texans for Public Justice wrote a piece for Politico explaining why they filed their complaint in the first place.
Not Marlin, but a smaller school district here is a party to the suit. A number of rural school districts know they were going to get screwed.
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