Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up For May 5, 2008
By Vince Leibowitz on May 5, 2008 in Texas Blog Round Ups
It’s Monday and time for the Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Blog Round-Up
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favors crony money over Texans’ health.
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polluting again and Abbott says lead poisoning landlords have a right to privacy.
John Coby at Bay Area ouston, thinks Bob Perry should go to hell.
Doing My Part For The Left’s Refinish69 joins Austin high school students in Breaking the Silence.
WhosPlayin writes about the disturbing trend for hospitals to require payment up front for expensive services like chemotherapy.
Even “non-profit” hospitals like U.T.’s M.D. Anderson are doing this, even while reducing free care and racking up huge surpluses.
Off the Kuff looks at the race for Harris County Sheriff and foresees immigration issues playing a big role.
The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why Governor 39% appointed a policy nerd to chair the Transportation Commission, rather than someone who knows anything about roads. Cronyism perhaps?
In the wake of the SCOTUS decision approving voter ID legislation last week, PDiddie of Brains and Eggs fact-checks the need for it.
North Texas Liberal’s Texas Toad takes a look at the new Republican culture war over something just as useless: allowing guns in national parks. Thank you, John Cornyn.
WCNews at Eye On Williamson has this post on the Reaction To Perry’s TxDOT Appointments.
McBlogger take a moment to talk about the state of the TTC and 39%’s appointments to the Transportation Commission.
Lightseeker shares his opinion On Trusting Free Market to Regulate Government over at Texas Kaos.
Vince at Capitol Annex shows another example of Voter ID Idiocy, this time highlighting an editorial from the Texarkana Gazette’s pseudo-ivory-tower-intellectual editorial board and explains why such thinking is typical of suburban newspaper editors.
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