Daily Archives: July 13, 2006

The circle of disk jockey life

Okay, let me see if I’ve got this straight. KHMX fires morning DJs Roula and Ryan and replaces them with former KRBE spinner Sam Malone. Now KRBE has fired its replacement morning crew of Atom (former evening DJ) and Maria … Continue reading Continue reading

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DeLay says he “cannot run” in Texas

The Republican Party of Texas had better hope for a favorable outcome from their appeal of Judge Sparks’ ruling in the DeLay ballot replacement lawsuit, because DeLay himself says he can’t be the candidate. Today on Fox, DeLay was asked … Continue reading Continue reading

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Going on the rebuttal

I wrote before that I was puzzled by the seeming lack of aggression by the prosecutors in the second Andrea Yates trial, since it appeared they were doing very little cross examination of defense witnesses. Whatever the case was there, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Report card time for Chief Hurtt

Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt is about to get graded by the rank and file, and he’s expecting to see some harsh evaluations. Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt said he looks forward to reading the results of a survey from … Continue reading Continue reading

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Attorney General opinion sought on state abortion laws

State Rep. David Swinford has asked AG Greg Abbott for an opinion on whether changes to the state’s abortion laws could lead to capital murder charges for doctors. Swinford said he disagrees with the interpretation by the Texas District and … Continue reading Continue reading

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Burnam wants TEC opinion on gift disclosures

You may recall that State Rep. Lon Burnam filed suit in April to force the Texas Ethics Commission to reverse its incredibly boneheaded ruling that public officials who receive cash or other gifts don’t have to disclose their value (see … Continue reading Continue reading

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Fire Accenture!

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers wants to fire Accenture for its poor performance. Sixty state representatives asked the Health and Human Services Commission today to fire the contractor in charge of processing applications for Texas’ low-cost insurance program for … Continue reading Continue reading

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Today’s the day for the VRA

Vince has been staying on top of the fight to renew the Voting Rights Act. A group of Republicans, including the three Texans listed in the banner atop Vince’s post, have held up the VRA’s renewal, which was supposed to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Blockwalk with Kristi Thibaut

Kristi Thibaut, who had a nice fundraising haul this past quarter, is looking for some blockwalk volunteers this weekend. Please come out and help Kristi on Saturday if you have the time. Councilmember Ronald Green, Richard Garcia (candidate for Harris … Continue reading Continue reading

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