Daily Archives: July 10, 2010

Nightly News Update: This Guest Aggrepost Just In!

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Greg Wythe

While Kuff is getting in touch with Mother Nature, I’ll add an occasional aggregation of other stories that might be somewhere close to the sort of thing Kuff might add to the blog in order to keep things a tad … Continue reading →

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Saturday video break: Vacation

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Charles Kuffner

This is approximately how I feel about being in nature: But for better or for worse, it’s where I’m gonna be for the next few days. Barring anything unexpected, I will have little to no Internet connectivity during this time. … Continue reading →

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Renew Houston submits petitions

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Charles Kuffner

Renew Houston has submitted signatures to get its drainage improvement proposition on the ballot this November. Renew Houston, a group of influential local engineers, has collected more than 30,000 signatures in a push to seek voter approval for an $8 … Continue reading →

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Bad projections

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Charles Kuffner

Just go read this Trib story about how the Texas Education Agency’s Texas Projection Measure, which purports to measure student academic growth as a way to evaluate school districts, is basically a load of hooey. It was the subject of … Continue reading →

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Grits on the CCSI

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Charles Kuffner

Scott Henson got the same information I did about the HPD “Chronic Consumer Stabilization Initiative” pilot program, and as always his take is worth reading. In that post, he pointed to this Malcolm Gladwell article that puts this initiative into … Continue reading →

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Pflugerville solar farm

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Charles Kuffner

This sounds promising. A startup solar energy company with corporate backing from India has won tax breaks from the City of Pflugerville and is near a similar agreement with the Elgin school district to build a 60-megawatt solar plant. The … Continue reading →

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