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The Texas Progressive Alliance has seen what Battleground Texas wants to do and is ready to do its part as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff is railing about new possibilities for High-Speed Rail to connect Dallas and Houston. The case for developing it gets stronger every day.
Dos Centavos rightly points out that the push to drug test poor Texans is not only discriminatory, but will likely keep encourage the very sour morals it seeks to legislate away from.
WCNews at Eye on Williamson posts on the budget debate in the House this week, and the fact that there was little discussion of what Texans really need, Still trying to find a way in…the budget version.
At TexasKaos, Libby Shaw explains why Senator Cruz Brings Plenty of Spite But No Bacon. Check it out.
The Republicans in the Texas House passed an amendment that kinda sorta endorsed the spirit of Medicaid expansion, but within a few hours got ‘corrected’ by their lobbyists and rescinded it. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs kind sorta expected that.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes that Rick Perry implies Mexicans shot the Texas DAs. Didn’t Perry get the Reince Priebus memo about gratuitous racist eruptions?
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And here are some blog posts of interest from elsewhere in Texas.
The Lunch Tray is a Food Blogger Against Hunger.
Bob Cavnar explains some lesser known dangers of fracking.
Juanita Jean has a question for the queen of True The Vote.
Texas Vox says that the pipeline spill in Arkansas calls into question the viability of converting other older pipelines for transporting tar sands.
Equality Texas reminds us that it’s always a good idea to get to know your legislator.
Jason Stanford has a strategy for coping with the STAAR tests.
Austin Contrarian publishes a response from Sen. Kirk Watson to an earlier post about one of his bills.
Raise Your Hand Texas outlines an agenda for real school reform.
Harold Cook channels William Travis.
And finally, we wish fellow blogger Katy Anders a peaceful but not too lengthy sabbatical.