Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barnett shale, Rick Perry, sarah palin, emissions, south texas chisme, mcblogger, texaskaos, texas liberal, left of college station, off the kuff, eye on williamson, texas cloverleaf, health insurance, nueces county, flower mound, oil and gas moratorium, Ethics, alberto gonzales, safe sex, nuclear disarmament, toxins, bill hammond on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the weekly highlights from the Texas Progressive Alliance. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants to know why Republicans like Victoria’s DA Steve Tyler, Nueces County’s DA Anna Jimenez and (who could forget) Alberto Gonzales abuse their offices? The Texas Cloverleaf thinks Rick Perry is eyeing 2012 before 2010 is even over with. WhosPlayin [...]
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Posted in Global Warming, tagged Attorney General, Barnett shale, bluedaze, bosskitty, Budget, deficit, divorce, drilling reform, eye on williamson, governor, hank gilbert, internal revenue service, irs, joe stack, lewisville, mcblogger, off the kuff, planned parenthood, sales tax, south texas chisme, steve radack, taxpayers, Texas, texas progressive alliance, texaskoas, truthhugger, vagina monologues, wcnews on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Service when Americans elect the very people who make the laws IRS enforces. Joe Stack [...]
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Posted in Global Warming, tagged al jazeera, asian american action fund, bay area houston, bravos valley, City Council, couldbetrue, eye on williamson, foreign correspondents, gas drilling, gordon quan, harris county, houston, houston city council, human trafficking, left of college station, libby shaw, mcblogger, off the kuff, propublica, rachel maddow, regulation, school lunch, soldiers, south texas chisme, Texas, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, transportation, truthhugger, whosplayin on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance is still somewhat amazed to be living in the year we make contact, and we hope we’re all still going strong when Odyssey Three rolls around. Texas has most drilling, worst regulation. Texas made national news this week in the ProPublica investigative report and they used pictures provided by TXsharon @ [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged tort reform, Texas, Barnett shale, California, republican, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, whosplayin, mcblogger, texaskaos, texas liberal, bluedaze, couldbetrue, off the kuff, john coby, bay area houston, xanthippas, three wise men, denton county, pdiddie, lightseeker, ronnie earle, kay bailey hutchison, Senator Cornyn, asian american action fund, hank gilbert, Dish, dewhurst, kinky friedman, linda chavez-thompson, march, county commissioner, whataburger, indian ocean, xicanopwr, dream act 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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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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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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Posted in Global Warming, tagged City Council, houston, Rick Perry, republicans, fort worth, texas progressive alliance, bloggers, south texas chisme, drilling reform, whosplayin, mcblogger, texas liberal, bluedaze, eye on williamson, john carter, bay area houston, texas kaos, texas cloverleaf, media, democrats, gene locke, lewisville isd, human rights, weekly round up, world series, quizas, chesapeake energy, school board, traditional media, pay to play, tabc, socialism, progressive coalition, mayoral candidates on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for the start of the World Series, and it presents to you its weekly highlight reel as we await the first pitch. quizas of South Texas Chisme wonders about the US detaining a Mexican human rights activist. WWJD on Carter Avenue? TXsharon wants to know if Chesapeake Energy or [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Toxics, Texas, Denton, Rick Perry, john sharp, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, whosplayin, mcblogger, texas liberal, left of college station, neil durrance, off the kuff, eye on williamson, bay area houston, texas kaos, denton county, planned parenthood, gas drilling, Senator Cornyn, glenn beck, fracking, Dish, Clark, willingham case, texa a&m, xicano power, john bradley, senator hutchison 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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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged japan, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, whosplayin, mcblogger, texaskaos, texas liberal, off the kuff, eye on williamson, texas cloverleaf, astroturf, exxonmobil, elizabeth burns, xom, smu on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone has a Happy Labor Day, and notes that it won’t be any work at all to read this week’s roundup of blog highlights. ExxonMobil! Free Mrs. Burns! Like TXsharon, Elizabeth Burns is a reluctant activist forced into action by the horrendous environmental abuses she witnesses on her own ranch. [...]
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Posted in Global Warming, tagged Global Warming, obama, EPA, governor perry, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, mcblogger, texaskaos, texas liberal, left of college station, eye on williamson, bay area houston, denton county, texas cloverleaf, health care reform, annise parker, pete olson, ted kennedy, ashby high rise, medicare, gene locke, peter brown, joe lieberman, chet edwards 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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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged texas progressive alliance, txsharon, truthhugger, brains and eggs, mcblogger, texas liberal, bosskitty, off the kuff, eye on williamson, bay area houston, texas kaos, three wise men, pdiddie, frac act, the texas cloverleaf, pete olson on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drilling”–proof that hydraulic fracturing contaminates our drinking water. Even Motley Fool supports the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, mcblogger, texaskaos, wcnews, texas liberal, left of college station, mean rachel, off the kuff, eye on williamson, bay area houston, three wise men, texas cloverleaf, galveston island, texas tribune, evan smith on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Monday and it’s time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme is sick of cronies running our cities our state and our country! WCNews at Eye On Williamson on more GOP shenanigans – Republicans, hypocrisy, the stimulus, and more Carter “nuttiness”. Off the Kuff notes that as Texas’ unemployment [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sarah palin, unemployment, michael burgess, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, mcblogger, texas liberal, left of college station, off the kuff, eye on williamson, texas kaos, three wise men, txdot, insurance, dick cheney on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Monday and it’s time for another version of the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly highlight reel. Off the Kuff suggests that a pro-science PAC could do a lot of good, nationally and in Texas. WCNews at Eye On Williamson reminds us that despite the brouhaha over transportation during the recently passed legislative session TxDOT is [...]
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