The Texas Progressive Alliance is pretty sure its invitation to President Obama's events in Texas were lost in the mail, and we will keep saying that to ourselves as we bring you this week's blog highlights. (Regular -- or more frequent, at least -- posting to resume here in short order.)
Off the Kuff continued his interview series with Congressional candidate
Ted Ankrum and State Representatives
Senfronia Thompson and
Garnet Coleman.
Staggering levels of formaldehyde in Barnett Shale air and the attempted cover up, breaking news by TXsharon on
Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS.
This week on
Left of College Station, Teddy reports that the Republican electoral strategy is to
conceal their policy agenda, and notes that
Congress should do nothing because the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire. LoCS also covers
SMUT and says
Texas Dominates the Recession at a price.
CouldBeTrue of
South Texas Chisme wonders why
Republicans like John Cornyn want to take us back to pre-Civil War days when blacks were not full citizens of the United States.
What part-time governor is also a real estate genius or maybe instead a sleazy grifter? Read Libby Shaw's take at
TexasKaos in
Rick Perry Stuffed His Pockets with $500K from Murky Land Deal.
NatWu at
Three Wise Men says that however bad the economic news seems these days, things are
actually much worse.
WhosPlayin stepped in it this week by pointing out how the local school district is giving an across-the-board raise to all administrative personnel, many of whom are already highly paid, while
some highly-experienced teachers could go without raises this year.
Texas Attorney General
Greg Abbott has been skewing the child support statistics to his favor, reports PDiddie at
Brains and Eggs.
On a day trip to Galveston, Neil at
Texas Liberal took a picture of a
portion of the seawall mural that showed workers in hazmat suits cleaning up muck from the sea. While Galveston is a great place to spend a day and spend a few dollars, the folks there are long acquainted with toxic spills.
