If there is anything that changes more often than Texas weather, it is the look of Capitol Annex. Over the years, we’ve gone through six themes (not counting the themes we went through in December 2006 and early January 2007 when this site was powered by Drupal), making today’s redesign Capitol Annex’s seventh.
We had planned [...]

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We’re making some changes to the website this evening, so please don’t worry if you see a few things that look a little odd–especially with the sidebars–tonight. Check back in the morning for a new and improved version of CapitolAnnex.com
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Late last night, Capitol Annex reached a major milestone in our history: our 4,000th post since our switch to  WordPress on January 26, 2006. Prior to that, between our founding on December 9, 2005 and our switch, we had several posts, but weren’t able to import them from Drupal to WordPress.
For you math nuts out [...]

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After several trials and several errors, we’ve made some changes to Capitol Annex which we believe will make it easier for users to comment while continuing to protect the site from spam attacks which have previously crippled the site. The new changes take effect at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning and will continue for one [...]

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To make Capitol Annex run faster tonight, we’re going to “hide” the blogroll on our site. According to our host, we have too many outgoing links on our front page, so we’ll give this a try.
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For those who hadn’t noticed our earlier post, Capitol Annex has started a companion book review site, Capitol Annex’s Book Salon. We’ve got our first review of a new title up today. Check it out here.
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First and foremost, somehow we managed to accidentally turn off users’ ability to comment on posts some time back. We’re not sure how this happened, but we noticed it while trying to implement a new comment strategy here in the Annex.
Second, on a trial basis, we’ve lifted the requirement that readers be registered and logged [...]

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Over the past week, I’ve received a number of emails from Capitol Annex’s many readers asking about our lack of blogging and wondering when–and, indeed if–we would return to full-throttle mode.
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who contacted us to inquire. We greatly appreciate hearing from our readers.
Second, to answer the question: today.
The 2008 [...]

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If you’ve noticed something weird here at Capitol Annex today (specifically, a large number of academic citations for each article on the front page), then you noticed that something went very wonky with the blog. We’ve had the “Cite This” plugin for WordPress activated for months now, and it never worked. Somehow, today, it started [...]

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As the March 4 primary draws nearer, we here at Capitol Annex are proud to announce that we are bringing several veteran bloggers on board as Contributing Writers for the remainder of the primary season.
We are doing so for several reasons. We believe bringing additional voices to Capitol Annex readers who may not read other [...]

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