Daily Archives: October 24, 2009

Saturday video break: Mah na mah na

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Charles Kuffner

Surely this needs no introduction: What can I say? It was the 70s. You had to be there. And if there’s one group that can give a proper modern treatment to this song, it’s the Asylum Street Spankers: Happy Saturday!

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Endorsement watch: Republicans (very quietly) for Roy

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Charles Kuffner

The Saturday edition of the Chron the past couple of weeks has had a feature in the City & State section called Campaign Watch, which is a blog-like collection of short items relating to the 2009 elections. For some odd … Continue reading →

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Early voting, five days in

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Charles Kuffner

We’ve completed the first business week of early voting, and the spreadsheet has been updated to show the totals so far. Thursday was the slowest day so far, with 2889 in-person ballots, which I attribute to the torrential rain in … Continue reading →

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Ashby developers lose appeal

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Charles Kuffner

Given how long it took for the Ashby highrise developers to get their permit in the first place, I figured their appeal of the requirement that they cut back on some aspects of the project in order to get that … Continue reading →

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Shriners Hospital reopens next month

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Charles Kuffner

Back in July, delegates at the national Shriners convention voted to reopen the burn hospital for children in Galveston. The date to reopen has now been set for November. The hospital, a world leader in burn research and source of … Continue reading →

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Texas blog roundup for the week of October 19

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Charles Kuffner

Yeah, late again. We’ll be back on track next week. Click on for the highlights.

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