Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Gov. Rick Perry is expressing “disappointment in lapses” at the Department of Public Safety that allowed an unknown arsonist to torch the Governor’s Mansion earlier this month. But the spark that set the building ablaze in the early hours of June 8 was set in the offices of the ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Iraq. Katrina. Pain at the pump. Unsafe food. Record debt. Real incomes falling for the first time since the Great Depression. A long list of failures trails the Bush administration as it limps through its final days.
But the saddest legacy of the saddest presidency may turn out to be the ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
June 19, 2008:
Asked whether he’s interested in becoming John McCain’s runningmate, Texas
Gov. Rick Perry tells reporters on a conference call: “Not for me. I’m
going to stay right here and keep the Texas economy cranking along.”
June 20, 2008:
The Associated Press reports: "Texas unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent last ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Austin’s City Council approved a watered-down measure whose draconian original version, pushed by a segment of the disabled community, could have dramatically hiked the cost of the city’s dwindling supply of affordable housing. The amended ordinance, sponsored by retiring council member Betty Dunkerley in her last meeting, passed unanimously.
The ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A new poll purports to have predicted the vote in Austin’s Place 4 city council runoff five days before the election even though the firm didn’t release the results until this week, days after the actual voting took place.
Further undermining the pollster’s case is his misstatement of the margin of ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Phil Wilson, the former Phil Gramm aide appointed Texas Secretary of State by Gov. Rick Perry less than one year ago, will step down as of July 6 to join the new incarnation of energy giant TXU, now known as Energy Futures Holdings Inc.
The StartleGram now has the story...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Though we haven't seen any real polling in a while, we assumed that Laura Morrison was leading going into the runoff against El Cid.
Her consultants must be seeing something in the numbers that they don't like, because we saw our first piece of negative advertising today.
It is a big foldout ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
In Fact Daily reports this morning that Austin City Council member Betty Dunkerley, due to retire later this month, is backing down on parts of an unpopular ordinance she has been pushing to mandate all new homebuyers to bear the cost of expensive modifications that would make their properties accessible ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
As the soap opera-like saga of the Democratic presidential nominating process draws to within days of its last episode, John McCain’s campaign is losing lobbyists faster than his Straight Talk Express bus’s top speed.
The latest may soon be Phil Gramm, the Texas economics professor who used to be known as ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Associated Press says Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is stepping up his ongoing efforts to get his $2 billion wind-turbine business off the ground — including an acknowledgment that his investment relies on federal tax incentive to survive.
“We are making Pampa the wind capital of the world,” Pickens says, ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Looking for a keynote speaker to strike just the right tone at its state convention in Houston next month, the Republican Party of Texas has turned to none other than Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. House Speaker who is “expected to be a big draw for Texas delegates,” according to ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Leffingwell Beats Meeker, Looks Ahead To McCracken
Lee Leffingwell handily defeated challenger Jason Meeker, setting the stage for the Austin city council member’s expected race against colleague Brewster McCracken in next year’s mayoral race.
Leffingwell needed a big win to position himself for his next campaign — and got it. He ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Everyone knows California considers itself a trendsetter in everything from culture to commerce. And now a Bay-area town with a $16 million budget shortfall has declared municipal bankruptcy in what could be a harbinger of things to come for cities like Austin, which faces red ink of its own ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Catholics are turning out in record numbers this year to vote in Democratic presidential primaries from Texas to Pennsylvania. But at least a dozen of them were turned away from the polls yesterday in Indiana under that state’s strict new voter ID law, which was upheld by the U.S. ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
David Dewhurst wasted little time before hailing the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a voter ID bill law in Inidiana that has been criticized as discriminatory and anti-democratic.
“I look forward to passing a fair voter ID law in Texas next year,” Texas’s very own career-rookie lieutenant governor said in ...
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