The AggreGAYtor: January 29

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• A Wyoming House committee has nixed a bill that would allow for..."

Jan. 29, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Headlines

"...Michael McCaul was recommended to become chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security...."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Feature

Scare for a Cure Starts Halloween Early

Local cancer charity scaring up volunteers today

"...you're trying to put together Austin's biggest charity haunted house, that's not a log time to send out the..."

Aug. 4, 2012 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

BPP Retreats on Arbitrary Imposition of 'Sex Offender' Rules

New rules for "Special Condition X"

"...On Wednesday, June 8, the rules committee of the Board of Pardons and Paroles met to..."

June 13, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Congressional Redistricting Dead This Session

Not enough time to move map through process, committee chair says

"...in Congressional redistricting. The chair of the Senate Redistricting Committee, Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, just confirmed to LegeLand that it..."

May 24, 2011 News Post by Lee Nichols

Welcome to El Partido de Té

Can the GOP expand and base-pander at the same time?

"...Texas launched its Hispanic Republicans of Texas political action committee on Tuesday. On the other hand, a large slab..."

July 23, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A New Budget Shell Game

Request for five percent agency spending cut doesn't add up

"...Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus released a letter on Friday asking..."

Jan. 16, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Indictment Tango

DeLay's fancy footwork works on TV, but will it keep him out of court?

"...Oh, isn't it all so grand? Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay can dance! Woo-hoo! Oh, hang..."

Sept. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A New Transportation Funding Strategy: CNU

News from Congress for New Urbanism

"..."The biggest urbanist in the White House is Barack Obama," said John Norquist. In a nutshell,..."

June 13, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

The Sunset Shuffle

Legislature moves the massive Health and Human Services review back two years

"...review bill passed, they get a two-year extension under House Bill 1959 - the Sunset safety net bill...."

May 31, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

UI Changes Change and Change Again

House wrangling over unemployment insurance compliance bill get verified

"...compliance terms in Senate Bill 1569 are on the House floor today, and unsurprisingly causing controversy and parliamentary maneuvering...."

May 21, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Watson's 3/17 Speech Against Voter ID

Transcript of Austin senator's remarks

"...expect, well before our meeting last week of the Committee of the Whole...."

March 18, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Coleman: Perry Slow on State Schools

Legislative Study Group chair asks why governor has left fixing state residential facilities to legislature

"...for not acting already, since the Legislative Study Group Committee on State Schools sent him a report demanding urgent..."

Feb. 5, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

More Gore and Extra Pelosi

Gore and Pelosi take questions from the Netroots floor.

"...belongs," she told the crowd, before clarifying that, "as (House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman) Mr. Conyers said, leave..."

July 19, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Black Out of the Press Room

Long-time Perry consigliere Robert Black stands down as communications director

"...of shifting people around within his kitchen cabinet, an in-house promotion would not be a shock...."

July 14, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Voting System Is Rigged

"...25, computer experts demonstrated vote flipping to the Texas House Committee on Elections Interim hearing about the security of..."

June 30, 2008 Postmarks

From the Snake Oil Files

AG Greg Abbott files suit against a half-billion dollar nutritional supplement scheme that he calls a sham.

"...McDaniel was invited to give testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform on using glyconutrients to combat..."

July 9, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Beside the Point

The dark storm of budget season looms on the horizon

"...(with Kirk Watson's help – his bill's in a House committee at press time), plus the American Federation of..."

May 4, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...huge," witness Jon Krakauer told members of the Texas House Committee on Juvenile Justice and Family Issues in April...."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Faith-based environmentalism ... and we don't mean the kind W practices

"...said Cathy Cramer, chair of First UU's Green Sanctuary Committee...."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

SOS Sues Over Stratus Plan

Stratus Properties plans to develop 1,253 acres in the Barton Springs watershed, but the Save Our Springs Alliance believes state law prohibits their lofty plans.

"...addition to his legal practice, Brooks advises a special House committee charged with revising the state constitution. Brooks said..."

June 28, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Developers' Gift Horse

"...and the Conference of Urban Counties, died in a House committee. The Texas Association of Builders and the counties..."

June 27, 1997 News Feature

Lege Notes

Odds and ends from the 79th

"...picking up a faster pace, as the bill from House Education Committee Chair Kent Grusendorf, R-Arlington, has landed in..."

April 1, 2005 News Column

Contemptible

Tom DeLay setting new 'salacious' standards in congressional ethics

"...letter of "admonition" for the Bug Man from the House ethics committee, following close behind an earlier one in..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Column by Michael King

On the Lege

Rose, Dukes rewarded for standing with Craddick

"...Rose learned of his promotion to chairman of the House Human Services Committee, the Dripping Springs Democrat followed the..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

The Spirit of 76th

The Presidential Card

"...Gov. Rick Perry to guide them, Republicans in the House and Senate were set adrift on a roiling partisan..."

June 18, 1999 News Column by Erica C. Barnett

Lege Lines: Dem Lawmakers Boycott Anti-Abortion Bill Hearing

Brass ovaries vs. HB 16, and other battle lines drawn at the Capitol

"...a bill that would further stigmatize abortion, boycotting a committee hearing and delaying the bill's vote. House Bill 16..."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Re-Redistricting

If Tom DeLay has his way, Austin will have no voice in Congress.

"...the weekend during the marathon public hearings of the House Redistricting Committee, mostly between the committee members themselves --..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Balancing the Books After Years of Neglecting Schools

The Texas Legislature wants to fix school finance, but how?

"...the fridge on its expiration day. You've left the house with just enough gas to get there, but maybe..."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines

Jonathan Stickland annoys his colleagues

"...fences by actually getting himself kicked out of a committee hearing...."

May 8, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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