The Texas Progressive Alliance stands with the LGBTQ communities of North Carolina and Mississippi as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the Kuff looks at the insane amounts of money being spent on the Austin rideshare referendum.
Libby Shaw, contributing at Daily Kos, sounds the alarm bells on Ted Cruz. Desperate Republican donors, afraid of Trump, are rallying around the scary man from Texas. Beware Ted Cruz. He is more dangerous than W.
Socratic Gadfly wonders if California's expected full legalization of marijuana could be the impetus in it joining North Dakota and creating a state bank.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes that the Texas Republican party, like its national parent, is heading further down the rat hole. John Cornyn was bad enough, but Ken Paxton et al maybe worse.
The water got hotter for Texas AG K-Pax as the feds piled on with some stock fraud charges. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs wishes the GOP would take out their trash and clean up their mess, but isn't going to hold his breath waiting for it.
Egberto Willies knows Lady Liberty, aka the woman who was arrested in the Democracy Spring protests last week, and interviewed her for his radio program on KPFT.
In Denton and via Bluedaze, a screening of the film Dear President Obama is being held at the University of North Texas on Wednesday, April 20.
Texas Vox had the advance on the protest by Native Peoples at the Dos Republicas coal mine, near Eagle Pass.
Lewisville's outdoor arts festival Colorpalooza was a hit despite the weekend rains, reports the Texan Journal.
And Neil at All People Have Value spotted and snapped a rainbow over a Walgreens in Houston. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
More blog posts about Texas from around Texas!
The Observer describes how Amarillo became both safe haven for -- and then a battle ground over -- economic and war refugees from across the world.
The Houston Press underscores the glaring sexual misconduct hypocrisies in the Baylor University football program.
BOR has point/counter point posts about whether the Texas GOP state leadership is still funny, or not quite so much.
Robert Rivard takes issue with a proposal to build a minor league baseball stadium in San Antonio.
Former Texan Elise Hu muses about female role models.
Genevieve Cato tackles the problem of how female ambition is perceived.
Austin On Your Feet, Mike Dahmus, and Austin Teacher Dad all weigh in on the May 7 referendum to repeal Austin's ordinance that regulates vehicles for hire companies like Uber and Lyft.
Newsdesk introduces the anti-LGBT culture warriors who will be running the Attorney General's office during those times when AG Ken Paxton is too busy defending himself from multiple criminal allegations to do it.
Grits for Breakfast calls the ban on surrogate social media accounts for inmates a bad idea.
Juanita Jean welcomes Tom DeLay back to the scene.
The Rag Blog hosts actress/singer Barbara Williams and her husband Tom Hayden on Tuesday, April 26 at Austin's High Road on Dawson. Hayden has recently switched his support from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, notes Ted at jobsanger.
Prairie Weather excerpts some letters to the editor of the New York Times about the Democratic presidential primary, and Carol Morgan excoriates CNN for portraying the Clintons in 'Tom and Daisy from The Great Gatsby' fashion.
And Pages of Victory declares such in the War on Poison Ivy.
Off the Kuff looks at the insane amounts of money being spent on the Austin rideshare referendum.
Libby Shaw, contributing at Daily Kos, sounds the alarm bells on Ted Cruz. Desperate Republican donors, afraid of Trump, are rallying around the scary man from Texas. Beware Ted Cruz. He is more dangerous than W.
Socratic Gadfly wonders if California's expected full legalization of marijuana could be the impetus in it joining North Dakota and creating a state bank.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes that the Texas Republican party, like its national parent, is heading further down the rat hole. John Cornyn was bad enough, but Ken Paxton et al maybe worse.
The water got hotter for Texas AG K-Pax as the feds piled on with some stock fraud charges. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs wishes the GOP would take out their trash and clean up their mess, but isn't going to hold his breath waiting for it.
Egberto Willies knows Lady Liberty, aka the woman who was arrested in the Democracy Spring protests last week, and interviewed her for his radio program on KPFT.
In Denton and via Bluedaze, a screening of the film Dear President Obama is being held at the University of North Texas on Wednesday, April 20.
Texas Vox had the advance on the protest by Native Peoples at the Dos Republicas coal mine, near Eagle Pass.
Lewisville's outdoor arts festival Colorpalooza was a hit despite the weekend rains, reports the Texan Journal.
And Neil at All People Have Value spotted and snapped a rainbow over a Walgreens in Houston. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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More blog posts about Texas from around Texas!
The Observer describes how Amarillo became both safe haven for -- and then a battle ground over -- economic and war refugees from across the world.
The Houston Press underscores the glaring sexual misconduct hypocrisies in the Baylor University football program.
BOR has point/counter point posts about whether the Texas GOP state leadership is still funny, or not quite so much.
Robert Rivard takes issue with a proposal to build a minor league baseball stadium in San Antonio.
Former Texan Elise Hu muses about female role models.
Genevieve Cato tackles the problem of how female ambition is perceived.
Austin On Your Feet, Mike Dahmus, and Austin Teacher Dad all weigh in on the May 7 referendum to repeal Austin's ordinance that regulates vehicles for hire companies like Uber and Lyft.
Newsdesk introduces the anti-LGBT culture warriors who will be running the Attorney General's office during those times when AG Ken Paxton is too busy defending himself from multiple criminal allegations to do it.
Grits for Breakfast calls the ban on surrogate social media accounts for inmates a bad idea.
Juanita Jean welcomes Tom DeLay back to the scene.
The Rag Blog hosts actress/singer Barbara Williams and her husband Tom Hayden on Tuesday, April 26 at Austin's High Road on Dawson. Hayden has recently switched his support from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, notes Ted at jobsanger.
Prairie Weather excerpts some letters to the editor of the New York Times about the Democratic presidential primary, and Carol Morgan excoriates CNN for portraying the Clintons in 'Tom and Daisy from The Great Gatsby' fashion.
And Pages of Victory declares such in the War on Poison Ivy.
