With this week's lefty blog post roundup, the Texas Progressive Alliance is springing forward to unpack its sweaters and jackets as spring break begins.
Off the Kuff looked at
two different analyses of the Harris County Democratic sweep of 2016.
Socratic Gadfly takes a look at some of the key issues as of this time
in an overview of the Wikileaks Vault7 dump.
CouldBeTrue of
South Texas Chisme notes Republicans aren't even bothering to hide their ugly war on women and children.
Increases in maternal deaths? No problem.
Torture the children of immigrants? Go for it.
Obamacare has morphed into Trumpcare, which is
actually DonTcare, and PDiddie at
Brains and Eggs notices that Republicans on both sides of the right aisle want to kill it.
A leaking gas well in southern Denton has
residents there alarmed about the safety of their children, reports Txsharon at
Bluedaze.
jobsanger shows evidence that helping working women through a progressive social agenda, including paid leave and affordable child care, would boost the nation's economy by closing both the gender employment and the gender wage gaps.
Michael Burgess held a town hall meeting in Lewisville,
taking his critics head on (for the most part), reported the
Texan Journal.
Texas Leftist documents the efforts of citizens and the business lobby who are coming together to stop SB6 (Dan Patrick's bathroom bill).
Metaphoric of current social and political circumstances, Neil at
All People Have Value took a picture of a Houston dog living in a not fully nice home barking and growling a stray dog out on the street that had nothing. APHV is part of
NeilAquino.com.
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More Texas news and blog posts!
Via the
Austin Monitor, city officials talked about smart cities and robot cars in their 15 minutes in between the concerts, booze blowouts, tech reveals, art displays, and cosplay (via
All Ablog Austin) going on during South by Southwest.
RG Ratcliffe's roundup at
Burkablog included some of Trump's words, UT's troubles with the now-cancelled southwest Houston campus, and a trio of bills in the Lege dealing with children's autism.
The denials by state government of public records requests is soaring, according to the
AP (via the
Laredo Morning Times).
The
Austin Statesman reported on Houston state representative Jessica Farrar's bill that would penalize men for ejaculating outside a woman's vagina, calling “masturbatory emissions” an “act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of life.”
The
Texas Election Law Blog has a mini-roundup of the variety of news that broke last week on redistricting and voter ID and other related topics.
Save Buffalo Bayou rebutted the 'engineer's view', published in the
Texas Tribune, regarding where the fault lies for the flooding that resulted in the creation of the flood control district.
Texas Watch points to the conservative organization Texans for Lawsuit Reform working with insurance lobbyists to manufacture another crisis.
And
Pages of Victory posts one of the timeless cartoons of R Cobb.
