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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asian american action fund, Barnett shale, bay area houston, big gas, bluedaze, democrats, denton county, eye on williamson, flower mound, gas drilling, harris country, left of college station, methane plumes, perry, primary elections, republican, senator bunning, Senator Cornyn, state board of education, Texas, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, txsharon, white on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance would like to thank the Academy by presenting it with this week’s roundup. TXsharon went undercover this week to Map Methane plumes in the Barnett Shale: “Stealth” measurements contradict Shale Gas industry safe air claims, new technology shows. Big Gas is so BUSTED! And it’s all reported on Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aggieland, Barnett shale, bluedaze, brains and eggs, couldbetrue, denton county, eye on williamson, harris county, ken jannereth, left of college station, lewisville city council, living wage, lon burnam, new orleans, obama, Public Citizen, saints, south texas chisme, super bowl, TCEQ, teabaggers, Texas, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, wcnews, who dat on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. Probation, anger management, laying off the bottle, and maybe [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged air study, asthma, Barnett shale, bay area houston, bluedaze, brains and eggs, couldbetrue, denton county, dr. martin luther king, drilling reform, eye on williamson, fort worth, houston, jr, mary peters, mlk day, off the kuff, south texas chisme, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, txdot, wcnews, welfare on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes you a happy MLK Day as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. Off the Kuff takes a look at some demographic trends in the Houston area. Something STINKS about TCEQ’s recent Fort Worth air study. Considering that the Barnett Shale has a staggering asthma rate of 25% compared to [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bay area houston, brains and eggs, brazos valley, democratic women of denton county, denton county, eye on williamson, gas drilling, greenpeace, harris county, human trafficking, south texas chisme, texas congressional district 7, texas progressive alliance, williamson county on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

With blue lips and chattering teeth, the Texas Progressive Alliance brings you a hot steaming mug of blog highlights for the week. This week on Left of College Station: the filling deadline has ended and the primaries in the Brazos Valley are crowded with candidates. Also, a look at who tweets among the primary candidates [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asian american action fund, Barnett shale, bay area houston, bluedaze, brains and eggs, California, couldbetrue, county commissioner, denton county, dewhurst, Dish, dream act, hank gilbert, indian ocean, john coby, kay bailey hutchison, kinky friedman, lightseeker, linda chavez-thompson, march, mcblogger, off the kuff, pdiddie, republican, ronnie earle, Senator Cornyn, south texas chisme, Texas, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, three wise men, tort reform, txsharon, whataburger, whosplayin, xanthippas, xicanopwr on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs. As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda Chavez-Thompson was rumored to be running [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, annisse parker, asian american action fund, beto o'rourke, bluebloggin, bluedaze, bosskitty, burger king, cia, coalition for life, could be true, democratic party, denton county, drilling reform, eye on williamson, governor perry, houston, houston runoffs, jeb bush, karen derr, kevin jennings, left of college station, len hart, lewisville isd, mclennan county, micheal burgess, off the kuff, republican party, Silvestre Reyes, snow, south texas chisme, stephen costello, stonewall democrats, Texas, texas a&m, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, truthhugger, txsharon, Waco, wcnews, whosplaying on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

TXsharon @ Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS helps you follow the money to see why Governor Perry and others want Texans to keep breathing toxic air. BossKitty at TruthHugger is proud to give a Hat Tip to Houston – Annise Parker inherits a City of Progress. The Stonewall Democrats of Denton County denounce Rep. Michael [...]

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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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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beverly kaufman, burnt orange report, democrats, denton county, dish texas, equality, harris county clerk, houston asian mayoral forum, left of college station, lgbt issues, native americans, natural gas drilling, off the kuff, public health, public option, republicans, rhode island, roger williams, south texas chisme, texas progressive alliance, trans-texas corridor on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance is enjoying the fall weather too much to think of a clever opening to this week’s blog roundup. This week on Left of College Station, Teddy writes about what it is like to share a birthday with a war and how we have been unable to learn from the mistakes we [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bay area houston, brains and eggs, Clark, Denton, denton county, Dish, eye on williamson, fracking, gas drilling, glenn beck, john bradley, john sharp, left of college station, mcblogger, neil durrance, off the kuff, planned parenthood, Rick Perry, Senator Cornyn, senator hutchison, south texas chisme, texa a&m, Texas, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, Toxics, txsharon, whosplayin, willingham case, xicano power on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Political Alliance hopes that everyone reading this today has ensured they are registered to vote in the November election, as the deadline for doing so is Monday, October 5. The Texas Cloverleaf reviews proposed changes to the city of Denton’s charter that will be on the November ballot. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged annise parker, ashby high rise, bay area houston, brains and eggs, chet edwards, denton county, EPA, eye on williamson, gene locke, Global Warming, governor perry, health care reform, joe lieberman, left of college station, mcblogger, medicare, obama, pete olson, peter brown, south texas chisme, ted kennedy, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No tea bags left? Neil [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acorn, annise parker, bill clinton, chicago, cnn, Congress, denton county, houston astros, jennifer giles, michael burgess, politicians, recess, teabaggers, texas progressive alliance on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Congress may be in recess, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in session. Here’s the weekly roundup of blog highlights. Off the Kuff takes a closer look at the crimefighting plan of Houston Mayoral candidate Annise Parker. WCNews at Eye On Williamson encourages everyone to get involved in lobbying their elected officials and [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 81st legislative session, Barnett shale, bay area houston, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, castle hill democrats, couldbetrue, denton county, dfw, dos centavos, electricity deregulation, eye on williamson, governor perry, hutchison, john coby, john cornyn, left of college station, leo berman, liberty university democrats, lightseeker, mcblogger, nitrogen oxide, off the kuff, pdiddie, president obama, sonia sotomayor, south texas chisme, TCEQ, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, toxic burritos, truthhugger, wcnews on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week from the Texas Progressive Alliance, emission from drilling are more than cars and airports, women are running things in Denton County, Liberty University Democrats lose their recognition, President Obama’s political coalition leaves out the far-right and the poor, and much more on this weeks TPA Roundup. This week’s roundup was compiled by Teddy [...]

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