Showing posts with label TXLV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TXLV. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Welcome to the 2020 Election cycle, what is old is new again. #TXLV #TLSPM

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With a new election cycle coming around, you won't be surprised to find out that the Texas Lock-Step Political Media is reverting to typ...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

TXLV: Texas Craft Beer Industry is screwed

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Some of the items in this Texas Tribune story about new Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen are amazing. Despite Beer and Banking ties, New ...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Election 2018: Texas New (True?) Blue Suburbs

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Are Texas Suburbs Slipping Away From Republicans? Alex Ura, Chris Essig, Darla Cameron, Texas Tribune Counties that haven’t voted for a D...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

TLSPM: Still Getting it wrong.

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The Houston Chronicle's new "conservative" (read: slightly less liberal but still solidly Democratic) columnist chastises the ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

BadMedia: Yes, the Texas Tax System is broken.

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But the solution is not to replace it with a punitive tax code. Texas Taxes May Be Low, but they're poorly imposed. Chris Tomlinson, ...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

TXLV: Odd Responses to Abbott's Call for a Special Session.

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So, Greg Abbott has decided that the Texas Legislature needs to come back and try again on some of the many things they didn't get accom...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

TXLV: The lie of tax cuts and government fiscal restraint.

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The Texas Legislature has (finally) reached Sine Die.  This means that it's time for the Texas LockStep Political Media and other groups...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

TXLV: You're about to pay more for your beer and liquor, with less choices.

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Hold on to your wallets, because the Texas Legislature is at it again.... Craft Brewers call Texas Legislature's passage of bill '...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

TLSPM: "If I (and my friends) don't like it it must be cronyism" is a tired saw.

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I have to admit to chuckling, just a bit, when I read the latest missive from the Houston Chronicle's business-unfriendly business colum...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

TXLV: Just pass the budget and call it a day.

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Apparently, the  Texas Legislature is getting close to being hopelessly snarled  as the personal pillow fight between Lt. Gov. Dan 'The ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

TXLV: Texas is getting the government it deserves. (And it's not pretty)

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I've never met a politician that I would like to join at a bar and drink a beer with. And I've met several of them. This is probab...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Texas Leadership Vacuum: Patrick's Potty Principles are dominating all other issues.

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At this rate, the 140-day Texas Legislature Session can't be over soon enough.... Lawmakers spend Day 2 sparring over Capitol rules. M...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

The Texas Leadership Vacuum: Patrick's Potty Principles.

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The Texas Legislature begins it's bi-annual session today, and our august elected officials are going to be tasked with trying to resolv...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Without further ado: Looking back on 2016

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Well, we made it, barely, through 2016.  And while my prediction that the former President of Metro Garcia would be mayor by famously riding...
Monday, July 25, 2016

HALV: This is GOOD News for Houston.

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It seems that the NCAA is deciding that cities providing a special accommodation to transgenders in regards to bathroom access is going to b...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Texas Leadership Vacuum: About that Abbott/Trump U mess. #TLSPM

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Five years ago (5), then Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott declined to push a case against Trump U, who agreed to leave the State.  Shortly...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

TXLV: How did this group ever come to dominate State politics? #PostGOP

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I haven't written much about  Governor Greg Abbott's Texas Plan  for a couple of reasons. First, I think it has a snowball's cha...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

TXLV: The Road To Hell.

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...is NOT, as you've been told, paved with good intentions.  It's paved by politicians falling back on "common sense" Na...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

TXLV: "There ought to be a law" (Bathroom Edition)

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As is typical, another controversial social issue has supposed "conservative" politicians running toward the light of a big, sweep...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

BadPolitics: The Justice Department is making an argument against its own Administration. #TXLV

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Today the Justice Department filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the merger of Halliburton and Baker-Hughes, two large oil field services co...