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Texas Farming Industry Struggles To Exist

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, tagged lcra, rice farming, South Texas Project, texas drought on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Millions of people have been farming in Texas for a very long time. In fact, agriculture is one of the major components of the state’s economy. But news reports have been showing that the farming industry is facing real problems that pertain to climate change. That’s right, many farmers have to cut back their production, [...]

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Public Citizen 25th Anniversary Party this Friday!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 25th anniversary, barr mansion, free beer, Public Citizen, Texas on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Don’t forget, this Friday is the big event for all you Public Citizen Texas fans out there. We’ll be hosting our 25th anniversary party at Austin’s own Barr Mansion on Friday, November 6th. This is a two-part, multiple option event, so listen carefully: PART ONE: Schoozefest Dinner Party, 6-9 pm. For all you high-rollers out [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged aruba petroleum, asian american action fund, Barnett shale, bay area houston, bill white, brains and eggs, coalition for life, denton county, dewhurst, elizabeth ames jones, eye on williamson, florence shapiro, hank gilbert, houston mayoral race, iran, john coby, john sharp, left of college station, mcblogger, mean rachel, michael williams, off the kuff, perry, planned parenthood, president obama, Public Citizen, roger williams, Texas, texas cloverleaf, texas kaos, texas progressive alliance, texpac, toxic drilling waste, tpa, whosplayin on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you to get out and vote on Tuesday. Here are this week’s highlights. Aruba Petroleum is drilling a Barnett Shale gas well in the backyard of Tim and Christine. Their property was taken, it’s value diminished, they were threatened and now Aruba Petroleum spilled toxic drilling waste a few feet [...]

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