Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Will Ronnie Run?
The quadrennial guessing game is in full swing: will Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle run again or at long last hang up his spurs? The inscrutable Democrat, a former state lawmaker who was elected to his current post the same year Jimmy Carter won the White ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This week's AusChron has a story about the hunt for SMD's in Austin. The usual sides are drawn- Martinez pushing for a change, Cole pushing back because of re-election fears, and Gus Garcia wringing his hands.What struck us was this statement by Sheryl Cole against any sort of geographic ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
You heard it hear first: State Representative Mike Krusee won’t be running again for the Round Rock seat he has held since 1993. Texas Weekly and Political Junkie have the confirmation, which we signaled back on November 14.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Da Man’s Tony Plohetski reported this morning on a bizarre incident involving Austin Mayor Will Wynn and his (unprintable) diatribe against a construction crew who made the mistake of blocking traffic at Fifth Street and West Avenue, near his downtown digs.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Austin motorists living in outlying ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
In and of itself, this story from the Sunday edition of Da Man, isn't much to write home about. Heck, normally the thought of Will Wynn in a cheerleader outfit would make us too sick to continue one wouldn't even make it all the way to the bottom of ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
City Councilman Lee Leffingwell isn’t subtle about his hope to be elected Mayor over expected opponent Brewster McCracken in May 2009. Some say they’ve even spotted him sneaking into the office late at night to sketch plans for arranging the furniture once he gets there. Fung shui is ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Apparently, there is a way to get developers to work with a neighborhood and not just go for max density whenever possible.
All you have to do is live within Old White West Austin. Its that easy!
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
There isn't anything we could say about this to make it funnier, so just click here and see what lance has been up to. Gross.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Veteran Williamson County Republican Mike Krusee will reportedly be appointed to a state transportation job before the end of the month, making him ineligible to continue serving in the Texas Legislature.
The Transportation Committee chief has been rumored to be on the retirement treadmill for months, ever since he delivered an ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Quorum Report is reporting that it is Robby Cook who is resigning.
Why? Because Mission Accomplished thats why.
"I feel like my office has accomplished many of the goals that we had set when I first ran for election. "
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Apparently KVUE's "Political Junkie", Tila Tequila Elise Hu, has been trolling the social networking sites looking for a good time and found Randi Shade's Facebook page.
She blogs about it here.
What surprised us wasn't that the campaign has a page, its that Rick Noriega only has 620 friends to Randi's 50. ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
An incumbent Democratic state legislator will reportedly announce his retirement later today after several fairly low-profile terms in the Texas House. The race to succeed him is certain to attract multiple candidates, including some fairly high-profile names. Stay tuned....
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Not that it was a fair fight. After all, she was only going up against Austin’s City Council. And she won. Again.
The issue was an obscure one but with obvious repercussions. Should city council members have the authority to hire the city’s attorney, who is currently ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
The Chron has an interesting piece about Toby Futrell overspending her allowance.
We would say something here, but its just too easy.
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