Daily Archives: July 23, 2007

Texas blog roundup for the week of July 23

Time for another Teaxs progressive blog roundup. Vince did the honors this week, and he’s got quite a collection of good reading for you. Click the More link to see the selections, and check them out. Continue reading

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What their bumper stickers say about them

I love the fact that I live in a country where this sort of thing is considered to be worthy of space in a major news weekly. Election season is taking over the front page, the evening news, and–sticker by … Continue reading Continue reading

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RIP, Heather Burcham

Heather Burcham, who was a leader in the effort to make the HPV vaccine mandatory this past spring, has died of cervical cancer. She was 31 years old. Burcham was misdiagnosed by a half dozen doctors over a five year … Continue reading Continue reading

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Who’s your PAC?

One from the weekend I didn’t get to, another entry in the “Let’s play with the new searchable online campaign finance disclosure forms for city candidates” files. About one in 10 campaign contributions to elected city officials this year came … Continue reading Continue reading

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Talk radio changes coming

Every once in awhile, I see a spike in search engine referrals to this site for the same thing. Sometimes it just means that Google has reindexed, and I’ve become the #1 result for a particular search (“Diane Zamora” is … Continue reading Continue reading

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Preservation, then and now

This story gives some idea of how far the idea of historic preservation has come in Houston over the last decade or so. A year ago, Houston’s small but passionate preservation community was galvanized by warnings that the River Oaks … Continue reading Continue reading

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Cigarette sales down for now

The effect of the dollar-a-pack increase in the cigarette tax has been more or less as expected, but it’s still early to say what trends may exist. The state sold about 484,000 tax stamps, which must be affixed to every … Continue reading Continue reading

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Spoiler shields still up

I figure by now that about half the US population has read the last Harry Potter book. As we like the British editions, we’re waiting on our copy’s arrival from Amazon UK (according to an email I got yesterday, it … Continue reading Continue reading

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