The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes everyone the happiest
of holidays, and reminds you Laplace
is the reason for the season
as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the
Kuff took note of the latest bit of
fascination with small counties' vote totals.
SocraticGadfly,
influenced by his reading of a new bio of Reagan, posted the first of what will
be several counterfactual history blog posts — what
if Reagan, not Goldwater had somehow run in 1964? (Click the
"counterfactual history" tag for similar writing by him.)
And here are some posts of interest from other state and national blogs and news sites.
At Popular Resistance, Howie Hawkins explains why the Green Party needs to go (back, in some ways) to a dues-paying membership. I agree — it undercuts the power of paper parties that have too much; it addresses the "cheating candidate" issue that the GP faces at the state level, usually in these paper parties; and it has a left-wing political history.
At Popular Resistance, Howie Hawkins explains why the Green Party needs to go (back, in some ways) to a dues-paying membership. I agree — it undercuts the power of paper parties that have too much; it addresses the "cheating candidate" issue that the GP faces at the state level, usually in these paper parties; and it has a left-wing political history.
Raise
Your Hand Texas pens a letter to the Commission on School Finance.
Better
Texas Blog calls the commission's report a "good start".
David
Bruce Collins takes a look at how many of the U.S. Democratic
freshmen are actually New Democrats.
The Texas Trib notes that state Sen. Charles Schwertner remains
in the MeToo spotlight after an ambiguous investigation.
The Texas Observer catches my own state Senatecritter liking
him some white nationalists. Unfortunately, as it also notes, after
being primaried by a sensible state Rep. and winning, Bob Hall coasted to
victory.
The Observer also offers up a collation of six
stories about rural Texas.
ProPublica
reports Dallas schools aren’t helpful for minorities, in many ways.
Jim
Schutze seems to have a bromance for Angela Hunt running for Dallas
mayor; he’ll accept
Scott Griggs.
Paradise
in Hell remains our premier interpreter of Individual 1.
Juanita says
"good riddance" to Paul Ryan.
Therese
Odell suggests a New Year's resolution we should all adopt.
The
Bloggess celebrates another successful community giving effort.
Many unions are still slouching toward Gomorrah. World
Socialist notes a Wisconsin Aerospace local that scrubbed a strike
and won’t tell the public why.
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