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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged big gas, bill white, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, burnt orange report, Capitol Annex, castle hill democrats, couldbetrue, drilling reform, eye on williamson, houston ship channel, hydraulic fracturing, iran, john ensign, john sharp, kansas, left of college station, liberaltexan, mcblogger, nevada, off the kuff, planned parenthood, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, three wise men, truthhugger, Twitter, txsharon, wcnews, whosplayin, xanthippas on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s Monday, the day after the first day of summer, and it’s time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. President Obama, Bill White, and John Sharp are all in the same sinking DOMA boat. The Texas Cloverleaf comes off of hiatus to tell you why. CouldBeTrue from South Texas Chisme cheers the impeachment of [...]

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Pecan Street Project Public Meeting June 23rd

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged airport blvd, Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, capital area workforce board, Clean Energy, highland mall, pecan street project, smart grid, Texas, University of Texas on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

You are invited to learn about and provide input to the Austin Pecan Street Project tomorrow, June 23 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Capital Area Workforce Board, 6505 Airport Blvd., Suite 101-E (please enter from the Highland Mall side of the building). The Pecan Street Project is an initiative charged with exploring [...]

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Whoops!! Nukes Fail to Pay-off

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged municipal bonds default, northwest energy, Nuclear Power, nuke, nukes, washington public power supply, whoops, wppss on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Whoops is a word with a negative connotation. It is also a word commonly associated, for better or worse, with Northwest Energy. It is an association they been trying to shake since the 1980s. They even went as far as to pay $260,000 in a 1998 lawsuit to avoid being associated with the stigma of [...]

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