The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes everyone Treason's Greetings with this week's roundup.
Off the Kuff is doing his best to keep up with filing news.
Socratic Gadfly discusses three big bits of political news from around the Metroplex area. First, he offers his initial take on Lupe Valdez's possible entry into the Democratic gubernatorial race. Second, he says good-bye and good riddance to Helen Giddings. Third, he offers a bigger good-bye and good riddance to Smokey Joe Barton.
Egberto Willies wants us all to be on the streets and more engaged in combating the Republican tax cut scam.
Texas Leftist also blogged about the #GOPTaxScam that was ultimately passed by the Senate in the wee hours last Saturday morning.
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez had a false start to her gubernatorial campaign last week, and once her bid for the Governor's Mansion is official, it will help carry a lot of downballot Democrats to victory, writes PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.
Harry Hamid attended the Harris County Green Party's recent monthly meeting but was forced to stage an unintended walkout, and David Collins went to a community gathering about a sports bar's traffic issues instead of attending the same GP assembly. Both bloggers used the word 'toxic' in their posts to describe their attendance (or lack thereof). Perhaps the party's leaders will catch a clue.
Neil at All People Have Value suggested that personhood be taken away from human beings and extended to guns and bullets instead. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
jobsanger has a bar graph that shows the minimum wage in every state, and uses it to illustrate how that is not a living wage.
And the Lewisville Texan Journal passes along the details of that city's annual holiday pet adoption event, Santa Paws Village, being held this coming Saturday.
In more Lone Star lefty blogs and news posts ...
Houston Public Media links to ProPublica's investigation of current and former military installations across the United States (more than 60 in Texas) contaminated by hazardous waste. One of the worst sits roughly 15 miles east of downtown Houston.
In an aggregate of 2018 filing developments, a former Monsanto lobbyist is challenging Ag Commish Sid "Sharia Law" Miller in the GOP primary, and Christopher Collins at the Texas Observer sees both men pandering as hard as they can to freak Republican base voters. In the wake of Joe Barton's somewhat involuntary retirement, the FWST was on the scene as his former chief of staff filed to replace him in Congress. (The several other Republicans and Democrats vying for TX-6 are also mentioned.) And the TexTrib has news about former state Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, who wants his old seat in the Texas House back. He's running against Rep. Diana Arévalo in the Democratic primary for HD-116 (San Antonio).
Grits for Breakfast wonders what happens next after the latest details of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department's sexual abuse of child prisoners at the Gainesville State School have been made public.
Therese Odell at Foolish Watcher reacts to the Matt Lauer news and the reaction to the Lauer news by Donald Trump.
The Lunch Tray asks you to comment on USDA school nutrition standards.
The TSTA Blog keeps pushing back against school privatization untruths.
Bill Barker at The Rivard Report urges haste in adopting a Climate Action Plan.
Keep Austin Wonky offers his proposal for a 2018 City of Austin infrastructure bond.
And Ty Clevenger at Lawflog reports on the federal death row inmate who is appealing his sentence, hopeful to receive a hearing from a judge who is not drunk.
Off the Kuff is doing his best to keep up with filing news.
Socratic Gadfly discusses three big bits of political news from around the Metroplex area. First, he offers his initial take on Lupe Valdez's possible entry into the Democratic gubernatorial race. Second, he says good-bye and good riddance to Helen Giddings. Third, he offers a bigger good-bye and good riddance to Smokey Joe Barton.
Egberto Willies wants us all to be on the streets and more engaged in combating the Republican tax cut scam.
Texas Leftist also blogged about the #GOPTaxScam that was ultimately passed by the Senate in the wee hours last Saturday morning.
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez had a false start to her gubernatorial campaign last week, and once her bid for the Governor's Mansion is official, it will help carry a lot of downballot Democrats to victory, writes PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.
Harry Hamid attended the Harris County Green Party's recent monthly meeting but was forced to stage an unintended walkout, and David Collins went to a community gathering about a sports bar's traffic issues instead of attending the same GP assembly. Both bloggers used the word 'toxic' in their posts to describe their attendance (or lack thereof). Perhaps the party's leaders will catch a clue.
Neil at All People Have Value suggested that personhood be taken away from human beings and extended to guns and bullets instead. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
jobsanger has a bar graph that shows the minimum wage in every state, and uses it to illustrate how that is not a living wage.
And the Lewisville Texan Journal passes along the details of that city's annual holiday pet adoption event, Santa Paws Village, being held this coming Saturday.
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In more Lone Star lefty blogs and news posts ...
Houston Public Media links to ProPublica's investigation of current and former military installations across the United States (more than 60 in Texas) contaminated by hazardous waste. One of the worst sits roughly 15 miles east of downtown Houston.
The San Jacinto Ordnance Depot bunker.
In an aggregate of 2018 filing developments, a former Monsanto lobbyist is challenging Ag Commish Sid "Sharia Law" Miller in the GOP primary, and Christopher Collins at the Texas Observer sees both men pandering as hard as they can to freak Republican base voters. In the wake of Joe Barton's somewhat involuntary retirement, the FWST was on the scene as his former chief of staff filed to replace him in Congress. (The several other Republicans and Democrats vying for TX-6 are also mentioned.) And the TexTrib has news about former state Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, who wants his old seat in the Texas House back. He's running against Rep. Diana Arévalo in the Democratic primary for HD-116 (San Antonio).
Grits for Breakfast wonders what happens next after the latest details of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department's sexual abuse of child prisoners at the Gainesville State School have been made public.
Therese Odell at Foolish Watcher reacts to the Matt Lauer news and the reaction to the Lauer news by Donald Trump.
The Lunch Tray asks you to comment on USDA school nutrition standards.
The TSTA Blog keeps pushing back against school privatization untruths.
Bill Barker at The Rivard Report urges haste in adopting a Climate Action Plan.
Keep Austin Wonky offers his proposal for a 2018 City of Austin infrastructure bond.
And Ty Clevenger at Lawflog reports on the federal death row inmate who is appealing his sentence, hopeful to receive a hearing from a judge who is not drunk.
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