Daily Archives: May 15, 2007

Craddick: Bring it on

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

Keffer may be in, but Tom Craddick isn’t going away. And he has lots of money. The question is whether Keffer will strike before the end of the session or not. It makes sense that he will, but predicting the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Dewhurst: Sleazier and sleazier

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

Honestly, I don’t know what else there is to say about David Dewhurst’s actions today. Carlos Uresti came down with a serious bout of the flu Monday, and left the Capitol after fellow senators noted how bad he looked shivering … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Mayor disputes pension story

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

Mayor White has a letter to the editor that strongly disputes the nature of yesterday’s pension fund story. I’m reprinting it here for future reference: The Chronicle’s May 14 Page One headline that said that the city of Houston “can’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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By any means necessary for Dewhurst

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

The more I see and hear about Lt. Gov. Dewhurst’s attempt to ram through HB218 today, the more appallingly sleazy it becomes. Patricia Kilday Hart fills in more of the gruesome details. Today, Dewhurst recognized Fraser at a point in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Keffer files for Speaker

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

No maybes about it, we have ourselves an official, unprecedented-for-this-time-of-year Speaker’s race. Via Quorum Report, here’s Jim Keffer’s statement: “State Representative Jim Keffer (R-Eastland) announced today that he has filed his candidacy paperwork for Speaker of the Texas House of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Voter ID chaos in the Senate

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

How wrong I was to think that this week was going to be the calm before the storm. Chaos broke out in the Texas Senate on Tuesday as Democrats blocked consideration of a voter identification bill after successfully arguing that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The state of the Speaker’s race

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

So do we have a real anti-Speaker insurgency in the House or is it just noise? “Maybe,” says the Chron. One anti-Craddick faction includes the dissident Democrats and Republicans in the House minority who tried unsuccessfully to unseat him in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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And speaking of cameras

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

Well, if you don’t like red light cameras, you certainly won’t like downtown surveillance cameras. [The Houston Police Department] is pushing ahead with plans to install more than a dozen closed-circuit video cameras downtown and across Houston, hoping the devices … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Still more red light cameras

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

Matt Stiles has the latest batch of red light camera locations around town. I’m fascinated at how many of them overall so far have been at freeway intersections. I presume these are all TxDOT right-of-ways, which means that their revenues … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Prom night

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

I never went to a prom – it wasn’t that big a deal at Stuyvesant back when I attended – so perhaps I’m the wrong person to comment on this story, since my general reaction is “who really cares?” But … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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How about best five out of nine?

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

So one of the local referenda on last Saturday’s ballot was a smoking ban ordinance for Baytown. It passed, just as it had passed last November when it was voted on previously. That hasn’t stopped the opponents of said ban … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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