Archive for November, 2007

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Fear the Online Forum

Do you ever read the craigslist postings in the “politics” section? I peruse it every once in a while to see what the level of crazy is and it’s always off the chart. Everything is conspiracy theories, liberal whining or conservative facism. The postings are like they are written by crazed escapees from a mental [...]

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Round Rock FM1460 First Casualty in Highway Budget Cuts

FM1460 is the ‘road of hope’ for Round Rock’s development. As plans for growth are well underway, money to improve the road has been snatched back by the feds and there they all sit….suckin’ on a pickle.
The money cut out of the budgets means new roads aren’t on the horizon for any of us, and [...]

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Austin Breaks My Heart

The reader comments on this news story break my heart. I can hardly believe what I read from ordinary citizens in what I thought was one of the most highly educated and progressive cities in the country.

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Welcome to your Friday

Hey Y’all! Welcome to Friday. I am thrilled to put a period at the end of this week, how about you? Can you believe I haven’t had any Veuve Clicquot since Sunday? This working 17 hour days is for the birds! I don’t see how you poor people do it. I’m exhausted.
I didn’t watch the [...]

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Get some lawsuit action

Chris Bell is suing the Perry campaign. I took a look at the filed complaint. Robert Black has called the suite, “sour grapes.” Well, maybe…kind of…but, technically the Perry campaign had the information but just did not bother to file it as required.
I’ve worked in heavily regulated industries for years and I can tell you [...]

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Texas In Play

Candidate for Senator, Rick Noriega, will be traveling to Las Vegas to meet national Democratic Party donors this week. Now that millionaire Mikal Watts has dropped out of the race, Noriega is getting some attention from major donors. That’s because people are starting to say, “Texas is in play.”
I don’t know about you, but sweeter [...]

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Deflect & Deny: Perry’s Political Mantra

The Statesman is reporting that Perry neglected to file the required campaign finance reports during the election. The fact that the money came from controversial Texan, Bob Perry, also gives the story that unique angle.
Black said it wouldn’t have made any difference if Texans had known before the election that Bob Perry (no relation to [...]

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Learning About Afghanistan

I’ve been watching KXAN’s series on Afghanistan. Did I mention they have a blog and YouTube videos? KXAN Austin News sent reporter Jenny Hoff to Afghanistan and so far we’ve seen her interview a Texas mom serving her tour in Afghanistan, a Round Rock soldier training Afghan Military, then his wife back here at home, [...]

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Overheard

Expect Craddick to release some of the House interim charges beginning tomorrow, with the remainder in the next few days.
And given the number of chairmen that have defected on him, he’s having to load up the few committees left with loyalists - like appropriations, regulated industries, elections, county affairs, etc.

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