Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ texas ’

Click image to enlarge.  
Read more »

Friday protesters gathered in front of the Alamo today to protest SB 1128, which would make it so that minority history classes – like Mexican-American, African-American, LGBT, or feminist history courses, for example – wouldn't count toward core-credit requirements in Texas schools.
Read more »

We sat down with Cornell professor Anthony Ingraffea, persona non grata in the oil and gas industry, to talk fracking, climate change, and industry regulation on the eve of this week's Eagle Ford Shale conference.
Read more »

Texas is a red state. There’s no denying that. But this lovely shade of crimson has not always graced our fair state. Throughout the 1960s Texas was deep blue. Congress didn’t see a Republican Senator from 1877 to 1961. But things slowly changed. More Republicans won at the State House and in Congress. It...
Read more »

“It is deeply disappointing to see a representative of the United States resort to this base tactic more than a decade into the 21 st century," Sotomayor wrote.
Read more »

  The White House last night began releasing state-by-state reports detailing how the sequester will unroll (it’s worth noting some Republicans are already challenging some of the state-specific numbers). According to the Texas fact sheet, here’s some of what we can expect to happen this year in the Lone Star State unless Congress intervenes...
Read more »

Last night the The Daily Show masterfully showed how truly bat-shit the Texas secessionist movement can be. The segment mostly follows perennial GOP candidate Larry Scott Kilgore, who claims he’s running for governor in 2014, and fellow secessionist Lynn Troxel. “One of the things that Texas allows, you can still talk on the cell...
Read more »

Texas Tribune managing editor Brandi Grissom has a stunning piece in the March issue of Texas Monthly, highlighting the case of convicted murderer Andre Thomas and posing this uncomfortable, big-picture question: What should the system do with the deeply mentally ill who commit horrific crimes? Grissom follows in excruciating detail how the state’s mental...
Read more »

The winners at the Berlin International Film Festival were announced Sunday.
Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education still trying to distance itself from its recent tumultuous past. In 2010, as the board revised curriculum standards for the state’s science and history textbooks, a super-conservative wing led by Don McLeroy made the SBOE the butt of jokes across the country, injecting charged conservative language into the...
Read more »

It’s Fat Tuesday and Downtown Tuesday couldn’t be luckier to be celebrating its One-Year Anniversary on a day famed for food, beer, beads and mischief. “San Antonians need to know, if you haven’t been downtown in a while, you don’t know what you’re missing,” said Mayor Castro at the anniversary press conference at Ocho Lounge earlier...
Read more »

Could Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin be headed our way? As announced last month, San Antonio is one of six U.S. cities in the running to host the 2016 Olympic U.S. Swim Team Trials to take place just weeks before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. This past week, San Antonio Sports launched an online...
Read more »