Daily Archives: September 11, 2006

New Zogbys and Rasmussens

You’ve probably heard about the new Zogby Interactive/Wall Street Journal poll numbers for Texas, but if you haven’t, here they are: Governor Perry 30.7 Bell 25.3 Friedman 22.4 Strayhorn 11.1 Senate Hutchison 47.8 Radnofsky 39.0 Zogby Interactive carries a lot … Continue reading Continue reading

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Endorsement season begins

The Dallas Morning News is first out of the gate with a Sunday slate of endorsements for the non-Governor, non-Senator statewide races. (All Republicans, of course, but then what did you expect?) How many days will elapse before the Chronicle … Continue reading Continue reading

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Interview with Dot Nelson-Turnier

Continuing with the State House interviews, today I bring you a conversation with Dot Nelson-Tunier, the first Democrat to run in HD150 since at least 1990. We Democrats could use more of that kind of courage and dedication to making … Continue reading Continue reading

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Know thy enemy

You’ve probably read this WaPo story about how the NRCC and the RNC are going to spend some $50 million plus on negative advertising this fall, since they really don’t have any other option to try to hold down their … Continue reading Continue reading

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The I-45 Parkway

I’ve written before about the proposal by Gonzalo Camacho to rebuild I-45 from Beltway 8 to I-10 as a tunnel (see the PowerPoint presentation here, plus a Houston Press article with some clarifications by me). The project has been dubbed … Continue reading Continue reading

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Saving the theaters

The Chron’s Lisa Gray has a story about eight simple and not-so-simple ways that You The Ordinary Houstonian can save the Alabama Bookstop and River Oaks Theater. Not all of them are for ordinary folks (#2, Be Like Microsoft Billionaire … Continue reading Continue reading

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