Daily Archives: March 8, 2006

2005 Koufax Award voting has begun

Continuing with the Stuff That Happened While I Was In California theme, the voting for the 2005 Koufax Awards has begun. A full list of nomination threads, now with comments enabled for your ballots, is here. I along with a … Continue reading Continue reading

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Andy Fastow is in the house

My stars, are we already at the Andy Fastow testimony part of the Lay/Skilling trial? I knew this was progressing faster than I’d thought, and I admit I’ve not been paying much attention to it lately (thankfully, Houstonist, Loren Steffy, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Coming to a theater (possibly) near you: “The Big Buy”

You may recall the movie “The Big Buy”, which I reviewed a few months ago. Here now is your chance to see it for yourself. As former House Majority Leader DeLay readied himself Tuesday to accept his party’s nomination for … Continue reading Continue reading

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Primary results: Republican non-statewide

We know where to start with this one: CD22. Still facing legal battles, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay won a pivotal political fight Tuesday by defeating three challengers in the Republican primary for his Houston-area seat. Opponent Tom Campbell, former general … Continue reading Continue reading

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Primary results: Democratic non-statewide

Where to start? Let’s go with SD19, where Carlos Uresti has ousted Frank Madla. Uresti led Madla by 5,733 votes late Tuesday night with 92 percent of precincts reporting in Senate District 19, which stretches from South Bexar County to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Primary results: Statewide

Though there’s still a lot of uncertainty in a number of races, let’s start looking at the ones that have been decided. Chris Bell was an easy winner in the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: With most of the … Continue reading Continue reading

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