Month: <span>October 2010</span>

Top 10 reasons to vote against Rick Perry

There are more, but I had to stop somewhere. # Flunking math His 2006 property tax cuts left an annual $4.5 billion shortage in the state budget because he didn’t fully pay for them. Now, school kids and educators are paying the consequences with outdated textbooks, crowded classrooms and pink slips. # Starving public education […]

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Perry not worried; you better be

Gov. Rick Perry, in an Internet interview today with the Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith, made what may have seemed, at first blush, a strange statement. “We don’t have a revenue problem in this state in the upcoming budget,” Perry declared. But what happened to the looming revenue shortfall that, according to other projections, could be […]

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Mustsee video

I don’t pass along political videos very often because that could be a fulltime job, but this one is an exception. I don’t know who produced it, but I thank my friend, Ed Sills at the Texas AFLCIO, for passing it along to me. Everyone who thinks times are tough now should take a few […]

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Don’t mislead us, Superman

I am no longer waiting for “Superman.” I saw the longanticipated oversimplification (it is, after all, a movie) of the nation’s public education problems at a screening hosted last evening by Austin ISD. As you may have heard by now, “Waiting for Superman” is partly a cruel drama endured by several families who believe their […]

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