And with that, on to the Roundup.
Texas politics
Greg Abbott took flak from both sides (I see what I did there) at his first roundtable discussion after racist wingnut Patrick Crusius' shoot-up in El Paso. Gov. Strangeabbott? It's OK to "stand your ground." (I see what I did there.)
An interesting new development in the Bonnen vs Mucus standoff. Strangeabbott publicly endorsed the just-resigned former head of the House GOP caucus, Justin Burrows. I presume rumors were already floating about Christo-fascist Tim Dunn wanting Burrows primaried? The Trib adds that even Danny Goeb is calling for party unity on this issue, rather than publicly backing Mucus, as one might think.
Off the Kuff looks at the psychological shift in Texas politics.
The TSTA Blog wonders if our state leaders will ever criticize Donald Trump.
Dallas
Jim Schutze laughs at Mayor Eric Johnson's naming a commission to look at the city's murder rate.
In the Texas schools A-F ratings, in the Best Southwest, Lancaster finished two points ahead of DeSoto and tied with Cedar Hill with an 81, while three points behind Duncanville. Wilmer-Hutchins High had a 70 and Wilmer-Hutchins Elementary had a 59-F. Good think that now-disgraced Larry Lewis couldn't brainwash the school board nearly 15 years ago into taking over the old Wilmer-Hutchins ISD.
Grits for Breakfast notes how KPMG told the city of Dallas to manage its PD better before hiring more cops.
Houston
Grits takes Harris County DA Kim Ogg, who looks more and more like a ConservaDem hack all the time, to the cleaners for why she opposes the bail lawsuit settlement there.
Juanita is pissed off at Pearland.
John Coby calls out Houston Mayoral candidate Bill King's dishonest endorsement claims.
Texana
SocraticGadfly looks at how the proposed Gannett-Gatehouse merger might affect the Texas newspaper world.
The Texas Observer localizes for Texas what intelligent transportation planners have long known: adding freeway lanes in urban areas ultimately ADDS to traffic congestion rather than lessening it. This is important given how much the Metromess, Helltown and also San Antone are already sprawled, and the I-35 double deck history in Austin, plus the reality of climate change. Once those new lanes get built, it's harder to fight new rounds of sprawl, to extend mass transit into new sprawl and more.
Orac notes that medical public health and computer modeling say that, thanks to antivaxxers like Former Fetus Forever Fuckwad Jonathan Stickland, Texas is "overdue" for a measles outbreak. The research includes Dr. Peter Hotez, attacked and mocked by Stickland during the most recent session of the Lege. The state's four largest metro areas could be facing 400 measles cases. Of course, FFFF Stickland lives in one of those metro areas.
The state of Texas executive Larry Swearingen for the murder of Melissa Trotter even though he may well have been innocent.
Are you REALLY hungry? Here's this year's State Fair food finalists.
Therese Odell wades into the Sean Spicer/Dancing with the Stars controversy.
Rosalie Reuss documents her experiences commuting by bike in San Antonio.
National politics
A Native American, a Diné, Mark Charles, is hoping to be elected as an independent. A longer shot for sure than Winona LaDuke being elected as Nader's Veep, and I don't know what his positions are right now outside of American Indian issues, but, he was part of a candidates forum on those issues.
David Bruce Collins says that Howie Hawkins, one of several Green presidential candidates, will be hitting the Texas hustings, in Dallas Sept. 7 and Houston Sept. 9. The lie that he's a Russiagater (if by that, you mean he believes there was Trump-Putin collusion) continues to spread. Rather, for conspiracy theorists like Caitlin Johnstone, and people who link to her Tweets, Howie believes, as do I, that Russia did engage in a variety of Russian government connected general meddling in the 2016 presidential election. That said, as I said on Twitter, if his nomination leads to a bunch of conspiracy thinkers leaving the party, I'm all for it right there.
Juanita is pissed off at Pearland.
John Coby calls out Houston Mayoral candidate Bill King's dishonest endorsement claims.
Texana
SocraticGadfly looks at how the proposed Gannett-Gatehouse merger might affect the Texas newspaper world.
The Texas Observer localizes for Texas what intelligent transportation planners have long known: adding freeway lanes in urban areas ultimately ADDS to traffic congestion rather than lessening it. This is important given how much the Metromess, Helltown and also San Antone are already sprawled, and the I-35 double deck history in Austin, plus the reality of climate change. Once those new lanes get built, it's harder to fight new rounds of sprawl, to extend mass transit into new sprawl and more.
Orac notes that medical public health and computer modeling say that, thanks to antivaxxers like Former Fetus Forever Fuckwad Jonathan Stickland, Texas is "overdue" for a measles outbreak. The research includes Dr. Peter Hotez, attacked and mocked by Stickland during the most recent session of the Lege. The state's four largest metro areas could be facing 400 measles cases. Of course, FFFF Stickland lives in one of those metro areas.
The state of Texas executive Larry Swearingen for the murder of Melissa Trotter even though he may well have been innocent.
Are you REALLY hungry? Here's this year's State Fair food finalists.
Therese Odell wades into the Sean Spicer/Dancing with the Stars controversy.
Rosalie Reuss documents her experiences commuting by bike in San Antonio.
National politics
A Native American, a Diné, Mark Charles, is hoping to be elected as an independent. A longer shot for sure than Winona LaDuke being elected as Nader's Veep, and I don't know what his positions are right now outside of American Indian issues, but, he was part of a candidates forum on those issues.
David Bruce Collins says that Howie Hawkins, one of several Green presidential candidates, will be hitting the Texas hustings, in Dallas Sept. 7 and Houston Sept. 9. The lie that he's a Russiagater (if by that, you mean he believes there was Trump-Putin collusion) continues to spread. Rather, for conspiracy theorists like Caitlin Johnstone, and people who link to her Tweets, Howie believes, as do I, that Russia did engage in a variety of Russian government connected general meddling in the 2016 presidential election. That said, as I said on Twitter, if his nomination leads to a bunch of conspiracy thinkers leaving the party, I'm all for it right there.
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