The Texas Progressive Alliance is happy to feel a little fall in the air as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff highlights a new poll showing a gap between what the people of Texas believe and what their government stands for.
Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos and contributing to Daily Kos is grateful to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner for revealing his Party’s false prophets. She is also grateful a Republican Presidential candidate’s whopper about an abortion that did not happen is exposed.
The Harris County Green Party endorsed four Democrats in Houston municipal elections, bypassing the only announced Green member who who was declared, in At Large 3. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs says there’s a story about that, but he’s not telling it.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Grits notes that statewide judicial candidates no longer have to get petition signatures from each appellate district.
Tamara Tabo has some helpful hints for the Gaslamp and other (allegedly) racist nightclubs.
Lone Star Ma went pink in support of Planned Parenthood.
The Texas Progressive Alliance doesn’t need hindsight to know that invading Iraq was a tragically stupid decision as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff is pleasantly surprised to hear that the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority and US Rep. John Culberson have reached an accord in their longstanding feud over funding for light rail in Houston.
Letters from Texas provides a step-by-step guide to using your hypocrisy to justify your bigotry.
Julian Castro is Hllary Clinton’s pick for running mate, according to Henry Cisneros. That suggests a Latino will also be the vice-presidential nominee of the Republicans. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs thinks that might be the most interesting thing that could liven up an otherwise completely predictable 2016 presidential season.
And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Texas Clean Air Matters examines what Tesla’s Powerwall home energy storage battery means for Texas.
Better Texas Blog names the least worst way to under-invest in schools, college access and health care systems.
Stephanie Wittels Wachs documents her efforts to get the Legislature to require insurance companies to cover the cost of hearing aids for children under 18.
The Lunch Tray calls self-regulation of kids’ food advertising a “doomed effort”.
Paradise in Hell warns us that the anti-gay crowd isn’t going anywhere.
BEYONDBones explains why you should care about endangered species.
The Texas Election Law Blog tracks what has happened to election law-related legislation so far this session.
From WCNews at Eye on Williamson. It impossible to lower taxes in a way most Texans will actually notice without raising taxes on the wealthy and big business. That is The Texas GOP’s Tax Trap.
There’s a message from the last socialist mayor of a major American city to the various Republican and Democratic socialists running (in a so-called non-partisan race for) mayor of Houston. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs wants everybody to understand that we are all socialists of a form or fashion. And that’s not a bad thing.
Texas Leftist attended the first ever Houston Artist Town Hall— a meeting of nearly 200 artists from across the region. As Council prepare a new Cultural Plan for the Bayou City, artists themselves met to make sure they contribute to those plans.
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Better Texas Blog reads a headline from the future about the short-sighted tax cuts of today.
Texas Vox mourns the passing of the anti-fracking ban bill.
Newsdesk puts on its tinfoil hat for a look at Jade Helm 15.
Paradise in Hell is amused by the effort to video stalk members of the Legislature.
The Current reports on Scouting for Equality and their crowdfunded work to get the Boy Scouts of America to repeal its ban on gay parents and adults.
David Ortez complains about Harris County’s role in killing the online voter registration bill.
Robert Rivard recalls the legacy of William Velasquez and wonders what he’d make of today’s turnout rates.
Today’s feature photo is the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Texas. Here’s more information on the establishment of the Center…
Forward-thinking Houstonians led by former First Lady Barbara Bush and former Ambassador Roy M. Huffington established Asia Society Texas Center in 1979. Sharing the vision of John D. Rockefeller 3rd, who founded Asia Society in New York in 1956, they recognized the need to educate Americans about Asia and to forge closer ties between Houston and the peoples and institutions of Asia.
In 1995 the Texas Center’s Board of Directors voted to build a home for its programs and activities. The Board selected Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, best-known in this country for his renovation and expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to design the building, located in Houston’s Museum District.
Completed in early fall 2011, the 40,000-square-foot Center features the 273-seat Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery, Edward Rudge Allen III Education Center, Fayez Sarofim Grand Hall, and more. It opened to the public April 14, 2012.
With the opening of the Center, Asia Society takes its place as a major educational and cultural institution in the region, the driving force in transforming Houston into an Asia-Pacific city.
After this week’s big announcement, Texas Leftist is left to wonder… Did the Dallas Morning News editorial board incorporate facts into it’s Endorsement process for Governor? If so, maybe this week’s decision for Greg Abbott would have went the other way. Clearly DMN should’ve taken a few minutes to read their own paper.
And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Dan Solomon speaks from personal experience when he says that the Wendy Davis wheelchair ad shines a long-overdue light on the devastating effect tort “reform” has had on victims of medical malpractice.
The Lunch Tray keeps fighting the fight for healthier school lunches and snacks.
Grits for Breakfast calls on Texas jails to opt out of the Secure Communities program.
