First same sex marriage in Texas!
A couple in Travis County, Texas were issued a marriage license and wed Thursday morning. Yay!
View ArticleStay of execution for Rodney Reed
just announced. Texas court announces stay of execution for Rodney Reed. No details yet
View ArticleBill legalizing marijuana introduced in Texas House
Texas State representative David Simpson (R-Longview) has filed a bill (Texas HR-2165) removing all references to marijuana from State law - effectively legalizing it. According to Rep Simpson current...
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Texas anti-union bill dies - Yay!
This item in the Austin American Statesman."Labor won a rare Texas victory Saturday, with the House Republican carrying an anti-union bill declaring it dead. Byron Cook, the Corsicana Republican who...
View ArticleTexas legislature further restricts women's reproductive rights
Texas Senate Bill 575 was voted out of the House’s State Affairs Committee late Saturday and put on track for a floor vote; and in exchange, Republican Rep. Jon Stickland pulled down an amendment to a...
View ArticleTexas Anti Same Sex Marriage Legislation Dies
Just reported in the online version of the Austin American Statesman.Republican legislation seeking to create a permanent ban on gay marriage died Wednesday night without a vote in the Texas...
View ArticleTexas Legislature recesses until 2017
Thank the maker! The Lege finished up its 140 day session today. Their next session will be in 2017. As bad as it was, it could have been a whole lot worse.More below
View ArticleA victory in Texas- small, but good
This from the Austin American-Statesman:The U.S. Supreme Court took no action Monday on a request that it review for a second time the race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas. The...
View ArticleState of Texas wins against Sons of Confederacy in SCOTUS decision
Just read this over on SCOTUSBLOG. US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Texas' refusal to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag, rejecting a free-speech challenge.The 5-4 ruling...
View ArticleSpiderman makes it to SCOTUS
Just saw this on SCOTUSBLOG from a decision in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment LLC on whether or not royalties must be paid after patent expiration. It looks as if Justice Kagan, who wrote the...
View ArticleTexas counties issuing same-sex marriage licenses
Excellent interactive maps published Monday by the Dallas Morning News.Google "interactive maps: How Texas counties are handling same-sex marriage licenses"Basically, the paper had people on their...
View Article173 Texas counties now issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples
From Thursday morning's Austin American-Statesman:173 Texas counties (out of 254) now issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. According to a spokesperson for Texas for Marriage (a gay-rights...
View ArticleLubbock County, Texas to start issuing same sex marriage licenses on July 6
This comes from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (an ironic name for a newspaper in Lubbock, if I ever heard one. Lubbock=flat as pancake).The civil division chief of the Lubbock County District...
View Article5 more Texas counties issuing same sex marriage licenses
As of July 3, five more Texas counties are issuing same sex marriage licenses. They are: Erath (pop 40000), Fannin (pop 34000), Grayson (pop 124000), Randall (pop 128000), and Wilson (pop 46000). The...
View Article3 more Texas counties issuing same sex marriage licenses, July 6
From scanning local newspapers online it looks like three more Texas counties are issuing same sex marriage licenses as of Monday, July 6. They are: Dickens (pop 2200), Kerr (pop 50562), and Lubbock...
View ArticleAnderson Co., Texas finally issuing same sex marriage licenses
As reported in the Palestine (Texas) Herald-Press - Anderson County, Texas is finally issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.According to the county clerk's office, licenses supposedly delayed...
View ArticleUpdate on Same Sex Marriage in Texas, July 16
This is an update on which Texas counties have recently begun to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples and some news from the state legislature regarding same sex marriage.According to the...
View ArticleUpdate on marriage equality in Texas, July 17
According to a news item in today's Dallas Voice, two counties in Texas are still not issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. These are Hartley County (pop 6000) located in the panhandle, and...
View ArticleWhen is someone's diary offensive enough to HR?
Serious question. When is a diary or comment considered offensive enough or inflammatory enough to deserve being hide rated?There's some obvious ones (at least to me) - threats, racial slurs, ethnic...
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