SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives talk voting and more

September 10, 2024

Texas Progressives talk voting and more

Off the Kuff examines Ken Paxton's lawsuits against Bexar and Travis counties for attempting to register voters. 

The Barbed Wire (which so far is doing as much re-reporting with bits of cover as anything in-depth on its own) notes Kenny Boy is suing the feds again, too — this time over a June Health and Human Services Department rule on HIPAA and reproductive care, including abortion, privacy.

SocraticGadfly provided the latest information in a hedge fund's attempt to take control of Southwest.

Obamacare really sucks for the "ghost insurers" still allowed to be listed, a real problem with mental health care. ProPublica has the tragic details.

A statute of Hindu god Hanuman in the Houston area has Christian Religious Rightists pissed off.

Helltown is also the rudest driving city in Tex-ass and 13th nationally.

$81.5 billion: That's the cost to kill property taxes in Tex-ass. No way that can all be done with a sales tax. There's another tax, I am reminded of, but a previous Legislature got voters of the state to agree to box them in.

Former Uvalde ISD police chief Pete Arredondo is asking a judge to quash 10 felony child endangerment charges over the mass shooting.

Proof Colin Allred is a ConservaDem? Little Lizzie Cheney endorsed him.

GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales predicts Republicans will lose control of the U.S. House.

Why DOES a speaker of the Texas House like Dade "Dade" Phelan need a senior advisor? And why DOES Tricky Ricky Perry want this gig?

The people of Boca Chica are fighting back against Elon Musk and Space X. Hell, even TCEQ fined it.

How would a proposed OSHA rule on worker heat safety play out in Texas? The Observer looks.

The Barbed Wire lists five ways that Texas Republicans have made it harder for college students to vote. 

The Texas Signal finds something off about Ted Cruz's Spanish language ads.  

Reform Austin investigates whether delaying the start of the school year could help the electric grid.

The Fort Worth Report brings the story of John Thomas, a Black janitor who is now being memorialized at the church where he had not been allowed to worship.

Finally, the TPA bids farewell and happy trails to Dos Centavos as he takes his talents to Colorado.

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