Texas blog roundup for the week of June 4

The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready to get conventional as it brings you this week’s roundup.


Off the Kuff has his and others’ reactions to the election results from last week.

BossKitty at TruthHugger is ashamed that America’s leaders find it expedient to hand the reins of Public Education over to corporate interests. Education is designed to show us what is already known, and guide us to discover what we need to know. But. that interferes with the bottom line – Climate Change – America’s Leaders Paid To Mislead.

After being from Early March to late May the Texas Primary in 2012 finally took place. WCNews at Eye on Williamson posted this Statewide Primary Analysis.

Poor Seamus the dog was NOT the only car-roof victim of Mitt Romney’s abuse that terrible day in 1983, and PDiddie at Brains and Eggs has video from the archives of the New Hampshire State Police that prove it.

CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants you to know John Cornyn is trying to pass off the funding of basic infrastructure from the Feds to the counties. Nice trick, you rapist enabler, you.

At TexasKaos, Lightseeker reports on two “drive me crazy” primary outcomes now that the primary electoral smoke has cleared. There is A Conversation We Need to Have about the once and future fate of the Texas Democratic Party and by extension all Progressive efforts here in the state.

The Lewisville Texan Journal finds itself agreeing with GOP Rep Michael Burgess’s bipartisan bill to increase healthcare pricing transparency, but warns that the move will only help up to a point; using existing hospital price data from Texas, they show how difficult it can be to comparison shop healthcare facilities.

Neil at Texas Liberal, who has not forgotten that the Texas forced sonogram law is state-mandated rape, wrote about the multiple meanings of the Houston Ship Channel.

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