Daily Archives: January 5, 2006

Come and see the world’s biggest prime number!

I love math stories. Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday. The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in … Continue reading Continue reading

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Filing news: Democratic missed opportunities

I said in the last post that even though Democrats did an excellent job getting candidates to run in Republican-held State House districts, they did leave a few opportunities untaken. I’ll take a look at those here. What I did … Continue reading Continue reading

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Filing news: Dems 40, GOP 15

The Dems who have filed page is fully up to date now, and it shows that the strategy of building the bench by running for more Legislative seats is off to a good start. Greg quotes from an email from … Continue reading Continue reading

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Stockman story

The Chron covers Steve Stockman’s entry into the more-crowded-than-I’d-thought CD22 field. Stockman and [Nick] Lampson are among eight candidates trying to unseat DeLay. The embattled former house majority leader, under state indictment alleging campaign finance improprieties, has three opponents in … Continue reading Continue reading

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Congrats to the Longhorns

Forty-one to thirty-eight. Well done, and well deserved. And to think the storyline could have been about two missed placekicks. Much better this way. Congrats, Texas. By the way, does anyone else think it would be funny if after all … Continue reading Continue reading

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