On this 2016 commemoration day for the Reverend Marting Luther King Jr., an assessment of his Dream can be most clearly found in a voice from the past.
The poem Harlem by Langston Hughes...
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like … Continue Reading ››
It may be a much shorter ballot and in the throes of Holiday Season, but the 2015 Election process will not be complete until December 12th-- the date for the Houston Run-off Elections. As predicted, many important local races have gone to a runoff, and Houstonians will need to come back and vote. After … Continue Reading ››
The Texas Progressive Alliance thinks maybe we should finish celebrating Thanksgiving before we begin the Christmas season as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the Kuff took a closer look at how people voted in the Houston Mayor's race.
Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos and contributing to Daily Kos wonders if Houston's … Continue Reading ››
Remember that whole "separation of church and state"? According to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, that's so 2000 and late.
As David Saleh Rauf of the San Antonio Express-News reports, get ready for more activist churches moving to swing politics in their favor...
AUSTIN — A recent court ruling that cleared the way for … Continue Reading ››
So about last night. Katherine Driessen of the Houston Chronicle has the formal wrap-up...
Houston voters soundly rejected the city's embattled equal rights ordinance Tuesday in one of the most heated local political contests in recent memory that drew national scrutiny and sparked months of impassioned back-and-forth about social issues, particularly transgender rights.
The decision leaves Houston … Continue Reading ››
Is it a surprise that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is opposed to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance? Not exactly, especially given his long record of being against LGBT Texans, equality in general and local control for cities.
But in his effort to stoke the flames of fear and falsehood, our esteemed Governor left out one small … Continue Reading ››
