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Special Session Begins Today

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Austin, department of insurance, department of transportation, governor rick perry, public insurance counsel, special session, State Affordable Housing Corporation, Texas, Texas Legislature, texas racing ocmmission on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The special session that Governor Rick Perry called started this morning. On the agenda: extending the life-line of several state agencies that were up for review, such as the Department of Transportation, Insurance, Public Insurance Counsel, and the Texas Racing Commission and the State Affordable Housing Corporation. If legislators don’t pass a bill to extend [...]

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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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Perry Announces Special Session

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Clean Energy, economic growth, governor perry, green jobs, jim kyle, memphis, Office of Public Insurance Counsel, pew, renewable energy, Rick Perry, Rodney Ellis, solar, special session, State Affordable Housing Corporation, sunset safety net, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Department of Insurance, texas department of transportation, Texas Racing Commission, voter id, wind on June 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Earlier this week, Governor Perry announced that he would, in fact, call back legislators for an extended special session. What exactly this session will cover (voter ID? please no!) remains unclear, but the Governor has committed to addressing the “sunset safety net” bill that was left on the table. The Houston Chronicle reports, The governor [...]

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