By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 31, 2008 in 2008 Texas Elections | 8 Comments
[Our numerous sources in Austin have been pretty busy this week, and now we've got a new one who happened to be equipped with a camera and sent this to us since we've covered this race. Thanks to them for helping us snag this story!]
Amid the lush green grass of a beautiful sloping yard in [...]
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 31, 2008 in Texas Blog Round Ups | 0 Comments
It’s Monday and that means it is time for another Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up. The weekly round up is compiled from submissions submitted by member bloggers.
Saturday, TXsharon of Bluedaze attended the Barnett Shale Expo and the lies told by John Tinterra, Texas Railroad Commission, in front of citizens who pay his salary and in [...]
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
Here are some links to additional coverage from various counties:
Smith County
McLennan County
El Paso County
Cameron County
Hidalgo County
Nueces County
Harrison County
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
The Seguin Gazette has the story on the Guadalupe County Convention:
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
The Beaumont Enterprise has the skinny on the Jefferson County Convention. Buried in the story is a note about some Clinton Delegates almost deciding to walk out:
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal has the report from the Lubbock County Democratic County Convention. Not surprisingly, another media outlet labels the convention process chaos:
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
Fellow blogger Job’s Anger has a great report from the Potter County (Amarillo) Convention:
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
The Galveston County Daily News has some notes on the Galveston County Democratic Convention, which was a combined convention of Senate Districts 17 and 11:
Galveston County Democrats on Saturday made official what has been suspected since March: Barack Obama might have lost the Election Day primary to Hillary Clinton, but he was the decisive winner [...]
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 30, 2008 in 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Texas Elections | 0 Comments
While the folks over at Burnt Orange Report are reporting the hard numbers on county-by-county results from yesterday’s conventions, we decided to try and gather some “on-the-ground” stories from the MainStream Media and grassroots bloggers who attended the conventions.
Since compiling everything in one post would be pretty long, we’re going to do them individually. We [...]
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By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 25, 2008 in Texas Education | 0 Comments
Given the right-wing makeup of the State Board of Education, we should expect controversies over sex education, evolution and science education, and even the teaching of history.
But, am I the only one who didn’t see the current controversy over language arts curriculum? Check this from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
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