Make plans to attend
"Houston's Top Political Bloggers'" holiday soiree', next Monday, December 13.
No "bottoms" allowed. And the rest of the Texas Progressive Alliance is gathering up boughs of holly in anticipation of future hall-decking as it brings you this week's blog roundup.
Off the Kuff takes a look at the
HHSC report on the effects of dropping Medicaid. Short answer: It would be bad, but what they really have in mind to do may be even worse.
Bay Area Houston has some interesting comments on
the criminal probe of State Representative Joe Driver.
Capitol Annex takes a look at
a dangerous proposal by incoming State Rep. Dan Huberty (R-Humble) to allow independent school districts to lessen the amount of cash reserves they are required to keep on hand and explains why this is a terrible idea.
This week on
Left of College Station Teddy takes a look at the
shortfall in the Texas budget, and also covers the
week in headlines.
McBlogger reminds everyone to STOP SHOUTING
at the Federal Reserve for doing its job.
CouldBeTrue of
South Texas Chisme won't be switching to U-verse now that
AT&T bought 700 copies of Rick Perry's book. Yuck.
Neil at
Texas Liberal makes note of the fact that unionized city workers in Houston are
taking voluntary furloughs to help ease Houston's budget crisis. What a contrast this act of helping out Houston represents in comparsion to the public at large, which can be barely troubled to vote in municipal elections. Sometimes it is government that gets it right while individuals are apathetic or even hostile with regard to the public good.
Public Citizen's
TexasVox blog
gives you
ways to get involved to keep Texas from becoming the nation's radioactive waste dump, by attending the public hearing in Austin on Dec 9 at 10am.