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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, beverly kaufman, bluebloggin, bosskitty, brains and eggs, Capitol Annex, cornyn, couldbetrue, dallas, dennis kucinich, dfw, drilling reform, election day, eye on williamson, fort hood, fort worth, glbt issues, hank gilbert, harris county clerk, health care, hispanics, houston, judge sharon keller, lewisville isd, libby shaw, medical insurance, off the kuff, organ donors, quizas, refinish69, reform, republicans, sessions, south texas chisme, south texas democrats, texas cloverleaf, texas governor, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, truthhugger, txsharon, whosplayin on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a happy Election Day last week, and is already looking forward to the next one. Here are this week’s highlights. TXsharon continues to report from a backyard in the Barnett Shale. Despite all the local and national press on drilling related toxins, carcinogens and neurotoxins in our air, [...]

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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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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 290E, aaa-fund, Barnett shale, bay area houston, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, burnt orange report, Capitol Annex, cbt, chromium 6, couldbetrue, drilling reform, dwayne bohac, erin brockovich, eye on williamson, galveston, guantanamo bay, harris county, holocaust museum, impeachment, judge kent, juneteenth, left of college station, liberaltexan, lone star project, mcblogger, midland, off the kuff, south texas chisme, special session, tax assessor, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, three wise men, tim russert, truthhugger, txsharon, wcnews, whosplayin, xanthippas on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time once again to present the best of the Texas Progressive Alliance blog posts for the week. TXsharon can’t choose one post this week! It’s a toss up between the aerial video view of Barnett Shale Industrial Wasteland Texas or the Barnett Shale drilling induced earthquakes or Erin Brockovich [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aarp, archer fellow, bay area houston, big insurance, big pharma, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, burnt orange report, Capitol Annex, diana maldonado, drilling reform, eye on williamson, fox news, health care, Hurricane Ike, lamar smith, land comissioner, left of college station, leo berman, mcblogger, michael burgess, national cash register, off the kuff, robert reich, south texas chisme, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, todd hill, truthhugger, txsharon, tyler mayor, washington dc, wcnews, whosplayin on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up. Neil at Texas Liberal writes about the relocation of the National Cash Register company from Dayton, Ohio to Georgia. Treating people like dirt for 200 years gives Southern states an advantage in creating a so-called business friendly [...]

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Our First Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bloggers, blue daze, brains and eggs, Capitol Annex, drilling reform, fort worth, gob, left of college station, mcblogger, Netroots, south texas chisme, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, the alliance of magicians, the final countdown, truthhugger, txsharon, wcnews, whosplayin on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check it out! Texas Vox is now a proud member of the Texas Progressive Alliance, a group of bloggers, blogs, and Netroots activists. We demand to be taken seriously (and occasionally dance around to The Final Countdown with knives in our teeth). Our membership also means that you can look forward to Weekly Round-Up of [...]

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Voter ID Passes Senate Committee Hearing

Posted in Good Government, Privacy, tagged ap, Capitol Annex, david dewhurst, house elections committee, sb 362, texas house, texas senate, Vince Leibowitz, voter id, voter suppression on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After a grueling 23-hour hearing, the Senate passed SB 362, requiring that voters present a photo identification. No big surprise there. The AP reports, No one was surprised that a special Senate panel, which includes all 31 senators and Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, approved the legislation along straight party lines in a 20-12 vote [...]

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Andrews County: A Radioactive Risk for West Texas

Posted in Nuclear, Toxics, tagged andrews county, Capitol Annex, Cyrus Reed, diane d'arrigo, dump, forrest wilder, Karen Hadden, nirs, Nuclear, nuclear information and resource service, nuclear waste, Odessa, panhandle, rose gardner, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, TCEQ, terry burns, texas observer, Vince Leibowitz, waste control specialists on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I have been remiss in my duties as Blog Lady because I haven’t told you anything about the slated Andrews County nuclear waste dump. Oh, you hadn’t heard? TCEQ approved a “low-level” radioactive dump out in the lower panhandle. There wasn’t a contested case hearing — and citizens of Eunice, New Mexico, the closest town [...]

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Session starts, Straus is Official

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, Capitol Annex, Energy Efficiency, Greg Harmon, Hope Andrade, Joe Straus, SA Current, Texas Speaker's Race, Twitter, Vince Leibowitz on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

And its off to the races! The state legislative session has officially begun. House representatives and state senators were officially sworn into office in formal ceremonies Tuesday. The biggest news, of course, was the unanimous election of Joe Straus as Speaker of the House. Highlights from the House ceremonies: Hope Andrade, Secretary of State, got [...]

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