Archive for the ‘State’ Category
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
A Virginia company that books high-dollar hunting expeditions is on trial for violating federal laws by allegedly bribing Russian government on behalf of a group of Texas big gamesman, including one of Texas’s top GOP donors, according to a story in this morning’s Houston Chronicle.
Houston energy czar Dan Duncan ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Known as the oddest man in state government (emphasis on odd), Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is also frequently the odd man out among the three top Texas leaders. The other two, Gov,. Rick Perry and Speaker Tom Craddick, have been able to dominate the agenda and make the Houston ...
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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, 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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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Today is William Shakespeare’s birthday, which brings us to the topic du jour — Gov. Rick Perry and his announcement last week that he will seek another term in two years. His announcement may have failed to convince even as many Texans as voted for him last time (39 ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
After we broke the story that UT Chancellor Mark Yudof had agreed to take the top job at the University of California and would soon make his decision public, a reader commented that former state representative and longtime Democratic activist Glen Maxey should be considered as Yudof’s replacement.
“Maxey is a ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Voters in Wisconsin this week limited their Governor’s ability to freely edit state budget bills by deleting word or phrases “to create entirely new meanings never intended by the original authors.”
Once known as the Vanna White veto, the practice was reduced (but not eliminated) by more than 70 ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Mark Thompson came out of nowhere to force a runoff with Dale Henry in the statewide Texas Railroad Commission race a week from today.
A political newcomer who knocked off a former San Antonio city councilmember to qualify for the second round of voting, Thompson ran into trouble when he was ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Texas Gov. Rick Perry used the Republican delegates gathered at Austin’s Delco Center this weekend to pitch the book he published just last month, “On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For.”
Perry decided that a captive audience of fellow conservatives was a good ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Fresh from earning almost 39 percent of his own fellow Texans’ vote, Gov. Rick Perry threw his weight behind former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Today, Rudy bows out of that race, having run what political observers are privately calling “the ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
The Houston Senator is planning on announcing his retirement tomorrow. Sources tell us it will be effective March 10.
Senator Dennis "The Menace" Bonnen anyone? Anyone? Yeah, us neither.
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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 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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Monday, October 15th, 2007
It must be a slow news day. The blogs are all atwitter today over our jet-setting Governor and his lousy sub-par sporting life.
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Patrick Rose. He turns 29 today. We don't think he looks a day over 22.
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