Houston City Council members unanimously approved a funding and phasing plan for … Continue Reading ››
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Longview Celebrates It’s First Pride!!
LGBT Pride Month is a commemoration of the Stonewall riots, which (by most estimations) was the start of the gay rights movement. After enduring seemingly endless police brutality, a group of New York City residents gathering at the Stonewall Inn finally decided to fight back. It was the start of huge sea change in … Continue Reading ››
Houston Becoming A More Walkable City
To most people, the words "Houston" and "Walkable" don't really belong in the same sentence.
The Bayou City has long been characterized by its lack of zoning, boiler room summers and seemingly infinite miles of car-dependent, low-rise developments. But those in the city today have been seeing huge changes over the past few years. Here's more on … Continue Reading ››
Texas Democrats Utilize Heinous GOP Platform
So this is how it normally goes in Texas Politics... Republican candidates will run for office, and throughout the campaign they will do a bunch of stupid, even atrocious things which are virtually ignored by the media, and then finally sail into elected office in November. Meanwhile the few brave Democrats that were willing to … Continue Reading ››
Houston City Council Passes Budget
In a marathon meeting that beat out the recent HERO fest (but not by much), Houston City Council passed $5.2 Billion dollar budget for the city's next fiscal year It got done, but few would call it an easy process. Here's more from Mike Morris of the Houston Chronicle...
The budget was approved in a … Continue Reading ››
Music Musings: Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes
Hundreds of years ago, as European society awoke from the Dark Ages and launched into a period of unprecedented creativity, they formulated an ideal that we carry strongly with us today. A Renaissance Man was someone who could seemingly do and exceed at anything they tried. In the style of scientist, painter, sculptor and philosopher … Continue Reading ››
Texoblogosphere: Week of June 16th
he Texas Progressive Alliance thinks it's the Republican Party of Texas' platform writers that need some therapy as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the Kuff emphatically reminds us that Greg Abbott owns the RPT platform, no matter how much he may try to avoid the subject.
Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos asks … Continue Reading ››