SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives tackle various non-masking issues

August 19, 2021

Texas Progressives tackle various non-masking issues

Off the Kuff takes a moment to look at Census data, as redistricting will be the next big thing for the Lege.

SocraticGadfly, back from vacation, from that trip wondered which is worse, airline mergers or cellphone mergers.

Strangeabbott, tired of wasting state money from suing the feds over various issues, or getting sued by the feds for "trail and cage" on COVID Ill Eagles, is now wanting to waste state money on "build the wall."

Texas doesn't want public school students to be taught American Indian history but it does want tourists to cough up bucks to see it (in a presumably "sanitized" version).

At the Monthly, Dan Solomon excoriates Gilberto Hinojosa's Texas Democrats for relying on 2020 losers as 2022 standard-bearers. But, given Hinojosa's own track record, why wouldn't he? (Sorry for the likes of Kuff, but, yes, that's what Dan Solomon actually does.)

Michael Li says there's still time for a meaningful federal voting rights bill to be passed.

John Nova Lomax eulogizes the late Texas writer Cort McMurray.

Grits for Breakfast analyzes the latest attempt to make Austin spend more money on cops.

The Texas Signal explains the Child Tax Credit.

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