The Texas Progressive Alliance, in bringing you this week's blog post roundup, hopes everyone stays safe in the Northeast as the socialist snowplows come to the rescue.
Off the Kuff interviewed Harris County Sheriff candidates Ed Gonzalez and Jeff Stauber.
SocraticGadfly questions the mainstream media narrative that the GOP presidential race is down to a Trump-Cruz two-person event with this analysis and has a follow-up skewering of the Trump-Palin fun coming.
McBlogger goes the full 'pragmatism' on Bernie Sanders.
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, state Rep. Garnet Coleman, three current and one former Houston city councilmen all want to take the place of the recently-departed Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee on the November ballot. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs has the latest on the most highly contested 2016 race that you won't be eligible to vote for.
Of course the frackers are big GOP donors. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme knows that the Texas Republicans don't work for you. They work for their rich buddies.
In additional fracking developments, Texas Vox has the details on the teleconference open to the public on EPA's assessment of hydraulic fracturing and its effect on drinking water, and TXsharon at Bluedaze has more environmental news from across the country.
Texas Leftist writes about the legal challenge to Obama's executive action on immigration moving toward the SCOTUS.
nonsequiteuse attended the HISD meeting where Confederate heroes, and the schools named after them, were on the agenda.
Neil at All People Have Value took a Martin Luther King Day picture of two different types of birds sharing space in peace. We could learn from these birds. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Democratic Blog News has this pointed reminder: "Texas primary early voting starts on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 and runs through Friday, February 26, 2016. [...] Texas early voting voters will likely have cast about half of their total primary ballots by the time SC Democrats vote in their primary on Saturday, February 27th."
Prairie Weather helps out with a good definition of 'progressive'.
Zachery B. Taylor asks whether academia is helping or hurting democracy.
Jonathan Tilove noted that Greg Abbott flew Air Adelson to Israel and then Davos.
Ty Clevenger appealed the slap on the wrist given US Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. in his judicial misconduct investigation.
Keep Austin Wonky interviews Texas House candidate Huey Rey Fischer.
The Current advertises a movie screening to raise money for the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Texans for Public Justice filed a complaint with the FEC against Ted Cruz for his failure to report those Goldman Sachs and Citibank loans from 2012.
Anastasia Hansen tells you things you may not have known about Houston's bus system.
And Progress Texas documents four decades of Texas abortion laws.
Off the Kuff interviewed Harris County Sheriff candidates Ed Gonzalez and Jeff Stauber.
SocraticGadfly questions the mainstream media narrative that the GOP presidential race is down to a Trump-Cruz two-person event with this analysis and has a follow-up skewering of the Trump-Palin fun coming.
McBlogger goes the full 'pragmatism' on Bernie Sanders.
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, state Rep. Garnet Coleman, three current and one former Houston city councilmen all want to take the place of the recently-departed Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee on the November ballot. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs has the latest on the most highly contested 2016 race that you won't be eligible to vote for.
Of course the frackers are big GOP donors. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme knows that the Texas Republicans don't work for you. They work for their rich buddies.
In additional fracking developments, Texas Vox has the details on the teleconference open to the public on EPA's assessment of hydraulic fracturing and its effect on drinking water, and TXsharon at Bluedaze has more environmental news from across the country.
Texas Leftist writes about the legal challenge to Obama's executive action on immigration moving toward the SCOTUS.
nonsequiteuse attended the HISD meeting where Confederate heroes, and the schools named after them, were on the agenda.
Neil at All People Have Value took a Martin Luther King Day picture of two different types of birds sharing space in peace. We could learn from these birds. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Democratic Blog News has this pointed reminder: "Texas primary early voting starts on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 and runs through Friday, February 26, 2016. [...] Texas early voting voters will likely have cast about half of their total primary ballots by the time SC Democrats vote in their primary on Saturday, February 27th."
Prairie Weather helps out with a good definition of 'progressive'.
Zachery B. Taylor asks whether academia is helping or hurting democracy.
Jonathan Tilove noted that Greg Abbott flew Air Adelson to Israel and then Davos.
Ty Clevenger appealed the slap on the wrist given US Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. in his judicial misconduct investigation.
Keep Austin Wonky interviews Texas House candidate Huey Rey Fischer.
The Current advertises a movie screening to raise money for the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Texans for Public Justice filed a complaint with the FEC against Ted Cruz for his failure to report those Goldman Sachs and Citibank loans from 2012.
Anastasia Hansen tells you things you may not have known about Houston's bus system.
And Progress Texas documents four decades of Texas abortion laws.
1 comment:
First, did Trey stop taking his meds? Or alcohol? Or does he need to be put on some? Wow.
Second, under politics makes strange bedfellows, Congresscritter Flores agrees with Clevinger: http://www.wacotrib.com/news/politics/rep-flores-judge-s-punishment-did-not-fit-the-crime/article_98fe9a9c-f192-53e2-9c49-92f34048133e.html
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