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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abbott, Barnett shale, bill white, bryan, coalition for life, college station, david dewhurst, democrats, drilling reform, health care, perry, republicans, rob curnock, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas progressive alliance on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Why not enjoy these posts from the Texas Progressive Alliance along with the beautiful spring weather? CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme sees vast differences between Perry, his bud David Dewhurst and Democrat Bill White. Democrats are for a robust public education while Republicans are doing their darnedest to kill it. Are you playing the Barnett [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bill white, brains and eggs, bryan, burnt orange report, chamber of commerce, college station, dallas, democrats, EPA, eye on williamson, health care, homeowners insurance, lakeisha rogers, left of college station, lewisville, louis gohmert, march madness, off the kuff, phillip martin, proposed ozone standards, public hearing, republicans, rick green, Rick Perry, school districts, school finance, south texas chisme, tax dodging, tea bagger, Texas, texas progressive alliance, texas supreme court, texas-mexico border, texaskaos, txsharon on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly blog roundup will reach 32 million more Americans regardless of their pre-existing conditions. Last week, TXsharon made a video statement at the EPA Public Hearing on the proposed ozone standards. Who Needs a Proctologist when you have former State Representative Rick Green running for the Texas Supreme Court? This week [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged asbestos, Barnett shale, bay area houston, benzene, bluedaze, bob perry, brazos county, democrats, denton creek watershed, drilling reform, EPA, eye on williamson, health care, kay bailey hutchison, left of college station, lewisville isd, mccain, off the kuff, poll, primary day, republicans, Rick Perry, south texas chisme, teabaggers, Texas, texas a&m, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texas supreme court, williamson county on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for Primary Day and reminds all of you to vote if you haven’t already. Here is your Primary Day roundup. From the Barnett Shale, TXsharon announces a new “Watchdog” for drillers and her SOS to EPA about benzene and other dangerous toxins in the Denton Creek Watershed was heard. [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged alma aguado, asian american action fund, bill white, budget cuts, commissioner of agriculture, democrat, eye on williamson, hank gilbert, health care, housong, lewisville isd, linda chavez-thompson, longhorn, lunar new year, obama, oil and gas, primary, republican, south texas chisme, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, watermelon, year of the tiger on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes you all a happy Lunar New Year, and brings you the first Year of the Tiger blog roundup. Justin at Asian American Action Fund Blog notes that Houston is the first locale President Obama named in his Lunar New Year Greeting. Could there be a political meaning behind it? CouldBeTrue [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Barnett shale, bill white, binding arbitration, Capitalism, don mcleroy, farouk shami, gop, health care, houston chronicle, insurance, james o'keefe, jarvis johnson, mary landrieu, perry, pharma, sheila jackson lee, staar, texas association of builders, texas enterprise fund, thomas ratliff on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for the Super Bowl this Sunday as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme thinks that the Houston Chronicle caught the essence of the GOP with this headline ‘Many attacks, but few suggestions‘. WhosPlayin is tired of hearing obstructionist Republicans whining about not having [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aruba petroleum, Barnett shale, bluedaze, brains and eggs, clean air, Clean Energy, clean government, colonial new england, couldbetrue, democrats, drilling reform, eye on williamson, harris county clerk, health care, homophobic behaviour, houston mayor race, mcblogger, michael burgess, neil durrance, off the kuff, pdiddie, pilgrims, public citizen texas, senate, senator hutchison, south texas, south texas chisme, sue schechter, taxes, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, tolls, turkey, walmart, wcnews, whosplayin, wise county messenger, women's rights on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday the Wise County Messenger picked up the story. It’s all on Bluedaze: [...]

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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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Austin Rally Against Corporate Influence in Politics & US Supreme Court “Citizens United” Case

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged austin texas, Campaign Finance, citizens united, climate change, don't get rolled, Fair Elections, federal election commission, health care, Public Citizen, us supreme court on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Austin Rally to Protest the Possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court Will Allow Corporations to Unleash Flood of Money Into Elections Court Is Considering Sweeping Away a Century’s Worth of Campaign Finance Principles WHAT: Rally to raise awareness about the U.S. Supreme Court re-hearing Wednesday of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The court has [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Roundup

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bay area houston, bryan-college station, clear lake hospital, eye on williamson, governor rick perry, health care, john cornyn, mcblogger, mexico, off the kuff, principles of community organising, san jacinto battlefield, sonia soto, sonia sotomayor, south texas chisme, stimulus, Texas, texas kaos, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, unemployment insurance, wcnews on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Time again for the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly blog roundup. Off the Kuff takes closer look at that story about Texas turnout in last year’s election. WCNews at Eye On Williamson adds some context to what’s being said in Texas about Unemployment insurance, the stimulus, and Gov. Perry. This week at McBlogger, Krispy Kreme takes [...]

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Sylvester Turner Takes PUC Commissioners to Task

Posted in Global Warming, tagged aarp texas, Austin Energy, Consumers, CPS, disconnection rule, economic downturn, elderly, electricity disconnections, energy bills, free fans program, health care, health insurance, heat related death, heat stroke, herbert gaston, houston, low-income, municipal utilities, one voice texas, public utilities commission of texas, PUC, puc commissioners, summer heat wave, sylvester turner, texas legal services, texas rose, unemployment on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Recently the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) denied the emergency petition of State Representative Sylvester Turner (D – Houston) and a number of advocacy groups including AARP Texas, Texas ROSE, Texas Legal Services, and One Voice Texas, to prevent dangerous electricity disconnections during Texas’ hot summer months. This petition was designed to offer relief to elderly, [...]

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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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