ARRA Homelessness Funds Not Being Applied Where Needed
Homelessness in Texas has become a widespread issue that effects over 200,000 individuals during any given year. Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]
Backlash Grows Against BP’s Effort to ‘Buy Up’ Gulf Scientists
From Facing South, the online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies. On July 1, a video appeared on BP’s website featuring renegade scientist [...]
EPA Dismisses Perry’s Climate Change Challenge
So, big surprise – Yesterday, EPA rejected Texas’ ludicrous climate change challenge. In reaction, Gov. Perry put a nickel in the ol’ 10th Amendment jukebox [...]
Write of Passage
When I agreed to write two books using the quinceañera as the backdrop, the fact that I’d never had a quinceañera, had never been [...]
Who Runs Texas?
A long standing argument is that the lieutenant governor of Texas is more powerful than the governor. It’s that way by design. During the [...]