The Texas Progressive Alliance is feeling the Olympic spirit as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff is pleased by the changes to voter ID requirements that were agreed to last week.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme, like the US Hispanic Congressional Caucus, is disgusted with the CEO of IBC bank doing business in South Texas while supporting Donald Trump.
Taking into account both real and hypothetical options, SocraticGadfly uses ranked choice voting to explain how he would vote, or like to vote, in this year’s presidential election.
The Green Party‘s presidential nominating convention in Houston kept PDiddie at Brains and Eggs busy most of the week. There’s also a CNN town hall scheduled for next week for the Jill Stein-Ajamu Baraka ticket.
Neil at All People Have Value walked on Houston’s fabulous Airline. Dr. with a sign regarding the need for respect for all people. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Pamela Coloff‘s 2006 story on the UT Tower shooting received a lot of attention on the 50th anniversary of that horrible day.
Better Texas Blog explains how Texas can support kinship caregivers.
Eileen Smith keeps trying to make sense of Donald Trump.
Dan Wallach contemplates election security as national security.
The Texas Living Waters Project argues that desalination could harm Texas’ bays.
Juanita is seeking support for Glen Maxey’s ballot by mail program.
The TSTA Blog sees through the latest school finance “reform” idea.
Last week the 2016 Summer Olympics commenced in Rio, and so far it has been a banner games for Team USA. Texas Leftist wishes our amazing Texas athletes and all of Team USA good luck and a great competition in Rio. The Dallas Morning News has a great interactive page tracking Texas athletes and what events for which they compete by day. Hope y’all bring home the gold!!
