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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 EPA, Texas, Rick Perry, burnt orange report, phillip martin, dallas, republicans, college station, bill white, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, texaskaos, left of college station, off the kuff, eye on williamson, health care, democrats, lewisville, bryan, public hearing, texas supreme court, proposed ozone standards, rick green, chamber of commerce, homeowners insurance, school finance, school districts, texas-mexico border, tax dodging, march madness, lakeisha rogers, louis gohmert, tea bagger 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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Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar idea

Posted in Energy, solar, tagged 82nd legislature, carrollton, dallas, democrats, distributed energy, energy future holdings, environment texas, farmers branch, females, green jobs, hispanics, incentives, irving, jobs, legislator of the year, males, manufacturing, market development, mccall johnson, oncor, Public Citizen, public utility commission, PUC, rafael anchia, republicans, retail electric providers, silicon, solar, solar power, solarcity, TXU on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Great joint op-ed by our friend McCall Johnson over at Environment Texas and State Rep. Rafael Anchia, winner of Public Citizen’s Legislator of the Year award. Following on the heels of TXU’s announcement last week that it will offer customers an affordable solar leasing program, the gist of it is that we can’t let the [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged EPA, Texas, Barnett shale, Rick Perry, williamson county, republicans, texas a&m, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, drilling reform, texas liberal, left of college station, bluedaze, off the kuff, eye on williamson, bay area houston, health care, texas cloverleaf, democrats, kay bailey hutchison, teabaggers, lewisville isd, primary day, benzene, denton creek watershed, texas supreme court, asbestos, bob perry, brazos county, poll, mccain 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 Uncategorized, tagged Afghanistan, bay area houston, bill white, bluebloggin, boss kitty, brains and eggs, couldbetrue, david benzion, democratic party, democrats, drilling, drilling reform, drilling toxins, eye on williamson, galveston, governor's race, houston mayor, iraq, korean war, left of college station, liberaltexan, natural gas, nueces county, nytexan, obama, off the kuff, oil and gas wells, pdiddie, politics, prison system, race, renewable energy, republican party, republicans, south texas chisme, Texas, texas cloverleaf, texas governor, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, Texas Railroad Commission, texaskaos, three wise men, truthhugger, txsharon, vietnam war, wcnews, weekly round up, whosplayin, xanthippas on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Once again it’s time for the Texas Progressive Alliance to bring you the highlights from the blogs. Xanthippas at Three Wise Men airs out some thoughts on the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and some painful lessons learned blogging about the war in Iraq. Bay Area Houston claims The Race for Houston Mayor is [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bay area houston, bill white, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, couldbetrue, drilling reform, eye on williamson, galveston, governor perry, houston mayor's race, lewisville isd, libby shaw, moby dick, off the kuff, republicans, road rage, south texas chisme, Texas, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texas public information act, texaskaos, three wise men, truthhugger, txsharon, wcnews, whosplayin, xanthippas on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance welcomes everyone back from the Thanksgiving Holiday with these highlights from the blogs. TXsharon has arranged by area 60 TCEQ fugitive emission videos obtained via the Texas Public Information Act. The videos were taken throughout the Barnett Shale area using a GasFindIR (Infrared) camera. Find the videos for your area at [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged houston, Barnett shale, Capitol Annex, dallas, election day, republicans, fort worth, texas governor, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, south texas chisme, drilling reform, truthhugger, brains and eggs, whosplayin, texaskaos, texas liberal, bosskitty, couldbetrue, off the kuff, eye on williamson, bay area houston, dfw, health care, texas cloverleaf, reform, libby shaw, asian american action fund, cornyn, lewisville isd, hank gilbert, harris county clerk, beverly kaufman, refinish69, quizas, aruba petroleum, glbt issues, dennis kucinich, south texas democrats, bluebloggin, medical insurance, organ donors, hispanics, judge sharon keller, fort hood, sessions 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 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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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burnt orange report, republicans, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, left of college station, off the kuff, denton county, democrats, dish texas, natural gas drilling, public health, rhode island, roger williams, native americans, lgbt issues, equality, houston asian mayoral forum, harris county clerk, beverly kaufman, trans-texas corridor, public option 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 bryan, ciro rodriguez, climate bill, climate change, college station, david dewhurst, debra medina, democrats, fire, gas drilling, gop, governor perry, john carter, kay bailey hutchison, kbh, lewisville, michael vick, nra, racism, republicans, sarah palin, south texas, Texas, texas progressive alliance, toxic materials, unemployment insurance, waxman-markey on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here we are in August, and like every other week it’s time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. TXsharon needs your help to Expose This Dirty Video. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme calls out KBH and the GOP for using racism and the NRA to get out the vote in 2010. Having a competent, [...]

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Governor’s office: Lock up the Opposition

Posted in Energy, tagged Brian Lloyd, CleanTX, Governor's Office, house of representatives, Imprisonment, Legislature, Lock, republicans, Rick Perry, solar, Texas, Tied, Voter I.D on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

While attending the Austin CleanTX foundation panel to hear their take on a post-legislative wrap-up, we overheard Governor Perry’s energy advisor Brian Lloyd say the following: Ouch!! While I don’t think Mr. Lloyd literally supports imprisoning his political adversaries and their supporters, it is somewhat surreal to hear one of our public figures suggesting it. [...]

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Waco Trib Weighs in on Renewable Portfolio Standard

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Global Warming, PUC, Rick Perry, solar energy, troy fraser, kirk watson, texas senate, texas house, republicans, kip averitt, democrat, waco tribune, environmentalism, texas public utility commission, voter id bill on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

EDITORIAL: Seeing the light and all its power Thursday, May 14, 2009 Dismiss talk of global warming and environmentalism if you must. But times are changing fast and, along with them, the very way we heat and cool our homes and businesses. The Texas Senate signaled as much this week, approving a bill encouraging development [...]

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Texas Observer’s Rundown of “the Chosen” Environmental Bills

Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Nuclear, Renewables, tagged Energy Efficiency, Coal Plants, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Energy Star, Texas Legislature, senate, president obama, environment texas, troy fraser, rafael anchia, sb 545, sb 546, luke metzger, public citizen texas, CFL, texas observer, environmental regulation, swinford, earth day, susan peterson, chosen ones, republicans, speaker joe straus, nuclear plants, fast tracking, hb 280, strama, kip averitt, sb 16 on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m going to cross-post the following article from the Texas Observer’s Floor Pass blog whole hog, because it is just that good. Look for Smitty’s quote in bold, and hold on to your hat Wednesday, April 22, 2009 The Chosen Ones posted by Susan Peterson at 03:12 PM There’s a lot to celebrate this Earth [...]

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