Texas gained 4 million people between 2010 and 2020 but 56% of Texas counties saw a decline in population. Take a deeper look at some of the state's population changes found in the 2020 census in the new issue of @TexasCountymag: https://t.co/JBtIrzCjtM#254Strong #txlege pic.twitter.com/f8Lg0DFg5J
— Texas Counties (@TexasCounties) November 17, 2021
Who are these people, though? I mean besides Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. Are they people who want to be here for the jobs, the politics, the allegedly low taxes/cost of living?
My @nytopinion colleagues created an amazing database to look for places to live. I used it to figure out why everyone’s moving to Texas.
— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) November 23, 2021
Texas’ cities are affordable, full of jobs, racially and politically diverse, and Dallas faces lower climate risks https://t.co/d9rCpXWfAy
Pleeease California -- or New York -- our Texas, y'all. Just a little bit. More leftist than liberal, though, and since I'm wishing, more Green than Blue.
#TXLege #TX2022 @DelilahforTexas @CrowRailroad https://t.co/h6KKhj2Po7 pic.twitter.com/JbSVEqYSCt
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) November 19, 2021
According to the University of Houston and Texas Southern University poll, 51% of Republicans even favor legalizing the sale and use of recreational weed. #Texas #cannabis #marijuana #marijuanareform #CannabisCommunity #cannabisculture #CannabisMedicalhttps://t.co/C3EB3rDxD7
— San Antonio Current (@SAcurrent) November 23, 2021
If you're a Democrat running in 2022 and you're not advocating for weed, you might as well not waste your and everybody else's time and money. You should be running and voting Green, but a lot of you aren't ready for that conversation yet.
It may work out fine but make no mistake: Abbott is gambling with Texas' future #txlege https://t.co/i3xERaH1Bp
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) November 24, 2021
If you're a Democrat or a Green or a Libertarian and you're not running on keeping the power on, wake up and smell the coffee. Gambling is still illegal in Texas, but Governor Fish Lips has $55 million and his political future riding on no blackouts right before the primary elections next spring. Does that sound like a good bet to you? Maybe we won't get another Uri. Maybe the new guys at ERCOT who are telling him the grid is just fine will be right if we do. But if I were a betting man -- and I am -- I'm taking some of that action.
Notable: Taylor won the new Samsung plant in part by being in @Oncor territory -- https://t.co/9fFkynzkTK
— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) November 24, 2021
Abbott kept quiet about 313 renewal while it was debated then killed in Dan Patrick's Senate this session. It's politically dicey & could just be hot air. But would be quite the holiday gift for Big Biz if he salvaged program with a late special session. #txlege https://t.co/OOEKTtxPIP
— Justin Miller (@by_jmiller) November 24, 2021
Seems like the odds for a fourth special session are getting better every day. We know the Repukes want one to ban employer vaccine mandates, and with all the Lege vacancies at the moment, who knows what the outcome of anything Abbott might put on the call could be?
It's a little early for the governor to be focused on November 2022 by lying about Beto, but that just goes to show you that you can't put anything beyond him.
Some Republicans are attacking Beto O’Rourke by highlighting his actual 2020 remarks on policing. But the initial attack ad from Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign uses a significantly altered version of those O’Rourke remarks: https://t.co/Nd95ipiCUX
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 24, 2021
INBOX: Texas prison workers are NOT happy about @GovAbbott's decision to take another $4 million the prison budget for election audits.
— Keri Blakinger (@keribla) November 23, 2021
The union president called it “irresponsible,” highlighting record-high staff shortages in prisons that he says are still COVID hot spots. pic.twitter.com/bC3QSn8ISN
The University of Austin's mascot is not going to be an elephant. Much too noble a creature. I'm thinking Leeches.
#txlege defunds real education to funnel taxpayer money to a "free market" institute. https://t.co/m0KvDWL3gS#highered #education #Texas #txed
— San Antonio Review (@SanAntoReview) November 24, 2021
And a Happy Thanksgiving to all the people that Mayor Turner screwed out of affordable housing in the years to come.
GLO review finds city Harvey housing program ‘undermines’ competitive process https://t.co/05nGPKYeXQ via @houstonchron #hounews
— Matt Schwartz (@SchwartzChron) November 23, 2021
The findings push pause on at least six apartment and multi-family projects the City of Houston wants to help build until Houston sends corrections to its plan. It puts at risk $91 million in taxpayer-funded housing subsidies and the future of 933 apartments, many for low-income Houstonians.
GLO reviewers say their overall conclusion is that, "The City of Houston does not have appropriate processes and the necessary controls in place to meet (the multi-family program contract requirements)."
The program is designed to provide affordable housing to low-income families using federal funds, but the GLO found multiple instances where the city didn't follow its own housing recommendations -- the ones developers were given before planning finding the city lifted lower scoring projects above those that scored higher.
The GLO said that "result(s) in a competitive process that is not fair and open."
Say whatever you like about Ted Oberg and Greg Groogan and even George Pee Bush at the GLO. It was Tom McCasland who first blew the whistle.
One more thing before I get off the corruption beat.
Regulations require banks to figure out how their clients earn their money. But court documents in recent Texas kleptocracy cases raise questions about whether U.S. banks are serious about stopping money laundering. https://t.co/rYRS0j9xFW
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) November 24, 2021
More hard news after the holiday. I need some soothers now.
The “coolest place in town” is now open!
— City of San Antonio 💪+💉= 💯 (@COSAGOV) November 22, 2021
The Rotary Club of San Antonio and Centro San Antonio present the 2021 Holiday Outdoor Ice Rink located in Travis Park adjacent to the annual Christmas tree.
For more information, visit https://t.co/JJQ9v8JzTK ⛸️⛸️ pic.twitter.com/re4AWXYQKi
RIP to the Astros' all-time winningest manager Bill Virdon. Here's my favorite photo of him. He didn't drink, so when the Astros won their first division title, Luis Pujols, Joaquin Andujar and Rafael Landestoy doused him with milk. https://t.co/3dkIks5h0m pic.twitter.com/tqdzRCUffc
— Matt Young (@Chron_MattYoung) November 23, 2021
Am I doing Thanksgiving right https://t.co/nz9WEi2AwP pic.twitter.com/rJ9byfWFwn
— El Arroyo (@ElArroyo_ATX) November 23, 2021
All My Xerxes Live in Texas. https://t.co/Ak1z1mGNs3
— Grey DeLisle-Griffin (@GreyDeLisle) November 24, 2021
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