Daily Archives: April 21, 2013

Weekend link dump for April 21

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Charles Kuffner

An Anthony Weiner mayoral candidacy would be a gift for shameless headline writers, if nothing else. It’s time for MLB to honor all of its pioneers, without whom there couldn’t have been a Jackie Robinson. “People who assumed Siskel & … Continue reading →

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“An accident waiting to happen”

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Charles Kuffner

I don’t even know what to say. There were no sprinklers. No firewalls. No water deluge systems. Safety inspections were rare at the fertilizer company in West, Texas, that exploded and killed at least 14 people this week. This is … Continue reading →

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There are a lot of Republicans who want to move us backwards on equality

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Charles Kuffner

Drew Springer is at it again, and he’s got help. In the last year, two Central Texas school districts have announced plans to offer employee benefits to same-sex couples, but one bill heard Tuesday at the Capitol would make that … Continue reading →

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Senate committee votes to repeal state sodomy law

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Charles Kuffner

About time. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted on Wednesday to repeal the state’s anti-gay sodomy law, a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Texas, along with Oklahoma and Kansas, will be the only states that still … Continue reading →

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Mobile payments

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Charles Kuffner

Austin is a hot spot for the hot new thing in retail technology. Mobile payments technology is gathering steam across the country, but Austin is one of the hot spots, both for deployment of new technology and for development of … Continue reading →

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