Daily Archives: November 27, 2006

Who cares what the beat writers think?

You might have missed the announcements of the MVP awards, as decided by the Baseball Reporters Association of America (BBRAA). No great loss if you did, as they made two poor selections, one defensible and one not. Joe Sheehan has … Continue reading Continue reading

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Is the end of the TAKS test in sight?

Now that they’ve got the court order regarding property taxes off their backs (temporarily, anyway), the Lege can actually visit the idea of school finance (read: figure out how they’re gonna pay for those property tax cuts) and maybe even … Continue reading Continue reading

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Dallas and Williamson

Meanwhile, as you wait for me to give you more data about Harris County in 2006, here’s a couple of things to read about how things went elsewhere: Via Vince comes this Statesman article about the closer-than-most-people-expected race in HD52 … Continue reading Continue reading

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Time to start a tour through the precinct data

I’ve been slowly making my way through the Harris County precinct data, with a goal of analyzing all of the interesting races that took place here this year. I’ve got a couple of reports prepped and ready to go, but … Continue reading Continue reading

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Blowing things up in the name of science

A catch-up item from last week: this NYT article on the show Mythbusters as science-teaching tool. To me, the value of the show is that it shows the thought process that one must go through to set up and then … Continue reading Continue reading

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Who we’re paying to lock up

Local attorney Randall Kallinen, who was a candidate for judge in Harris County this year, has an op-ed in the Sunday Chron about the makeup of the Harris County jail population. The Harris County jail has reached 102.31 percent of … Continue reading Continue reading

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