The Trib notes the Texas housing market is cooling down. It should, and should be cooling even faster than it is. When Austin, less than a year ago, was charging California housing prices, it's ridiculous. And, that whole original surge was arguably panic buying as much as actual scarcity, plus induced by Californicators unfamiliar with the realities of a Texas summer, as I've noted elsewhere.
Big news! The VA, along with the DoD on military bases, is providing abortion services even in states that block them. It's a lot bigger than the DoD action, as there's millions more veterans than active duty personnel, including women who did a two-year tour and no more and are still of pregnancy-possibility age. It's also big news because there's far more VA hospitals and facilities than military bases.
Will alleged fiscal conservative wingnuts like Drew Springer in the Texas Lege (you ARE, Drew, you're just not a wingnut squared) demand in January (by legislation if necessary) that Strangeabbott stop the free bus rides for Ill Eagles that have now cost the state nearly $13 million and county.
Socratic Gadfly offers up complex, multi-sided obituary thoughts on a major international death, that being, of course Mikhail Gorbachev, and a major US social activist authorial one, Barbara Ehrenreich.
Off the Kuff comments on the Harris County versus the Comptroller situation.
Stace tells us about National Science Foundation Grant to Texas State University which will study border migrant deaths.
Richie Whitt rips a new one for Jethro Jerry Jones and the Dallas Conboys. (sic)
Greg Abbott is getting punked online by a South Park contributor.
A federal judge is introducing Collin County administrators, as individuals, to the First Amendment.
For the Observer, Gus Bova reports from Uvalde on the town's past, present and future.
Dr. Hannah Lebovitz relates a lovely story about a Jewish faith leader in Corsicana.
Your Local Epidemiologist has the Cliff notes on fall COVID boosters.
The 19th marks the first anniversary of SB8, the Texas vigilante bounty-hunter anti-abortion law, going into effect.
The Observer talks to Librotraficante about combatting censorship.
D Magazine reports on some good First Amendment news.
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