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Jason Terry? Out.Mark Cuban? Crazy. As usual.Dirk Nowitzi? "Oh it's already been brought it."Devin Harris? Just needs to be laid out on his back. One time. Put me in coach, I can do that if Nazr and Rasho can't.Three rings to none/one (if you count AJ's).The only thing good about Dallas and the American Airlines Arena/Center/Fieldhouse/Park? The background eye candy.This is the game that

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I've been pushing forward with work ever since I heard this rumor a couple of hours ago, but now that the day is (almost) over it's time to write about it:It was the kind of headline you might find in a tabloid newspaper, but it was in an e-mail: 'Mayor Phil Hardberger Tells Confidantes: I Will Not Run Again'The missive was distributed widely this afternoon to Express-News reporters and editors

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From the Express-News blog, Strange Bedfellows (which, I might add, is kicking my ass in blog cred over the past coupla months):"They ought to try a phone call, or something," said Craddick, R-Mdiland(ooh,sic on the E-N!!!). "I don't do e-mails. I'm sure we get 'em in the office. ButI don't do 'em. I don't have a computer in my office. And I don't do e-mails." Next thing you know, he'll be

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Much like the song that never ends, this issue goes on and on my friend:Tim and Judy Zulewski were handed an etched glass trophy Wednesday for dutifully maintaining their family's enrollment in the Children's Health Insurance Program for more than six years.The problem was that their children just got dropped from coverage.Alexander and Amanda Zulewski were the first to enroll in Bexar County's

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Well what do you know, we actually get some real facts on the immigration debate:A carpenter told National Public Radio that he was tired of competing against undocumented workers."The government needs to do its job instead of pulling the wool over the eyes of people that there's no problem," the carpenter said in a broadcast aired Monday. "I pay taxes."The carpenter apparently believes that

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Wonder if this is what this commenter meant by Hardberger's free-wheeling and free-spending ways:City officials want to acquire a new 311-acre park on the North Side, with the $40 million to $45 million purchase price benefiting local medical research, Mayor Phil Hardberger told the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board on Tuesday.Called a win-win situation by city and civic officials, the

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Until Frank Madla leaves office. Thank God for that.Once again, Frank Madla left the Democratic party behind. His yes vote to bring HB 3 to a floor vote in the state senate keeps him firmly in the DINO category. It's not that HB 3 is a bad bill- it's not- but Senate Democrats could've stalled it's passage until they got some sort of movement on teacher pay raises and more money for maintenance

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I'm not sold on this Spurs team yet. Which is why we've had a dearth of Spurs posts this season. Having said that I think the only team that can beat them in a seven-game series is the Pistons. So they've got that going for them. Which is nice.But there's a chance the Spurs could be whupped in 5 games by the Pistons in the Finals. And we all know how much of this game is won or lost in the

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I've been thinking about this for a long while, but I finally got off my lazy ass and did the research to figure this out.Quick question: Where's Frank Corte's district office? Most of y'all just probably mumbled a quick, "Idontknow." Which is fine. As a brand spanking new resident of HD-122 though, I was curious.So here's your answer: 2040 Babcock Road, Ste 402, San Antonio, Tx

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I've been busy with a new job for the past three weeks (more on that later) and I just finished moving into a new apartment. So I don't have an internet connection right now outside of work.Just stand by and we'll get this thing rolling, again, soon.

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"We didn't realize how much we took Henry B. for granted."That's what I once overheard a high-ranking official of a national Dem organization say about Congressman Charlie Gonzalez and his father, the late Henry B. Gonzalez. His vote against the Markey amendment on this whole Net Neutrality issue only serves to underscore that statement.It's not that Gonzalez is another Henry Cuellar, it's just

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From the e-mails:State Representative David Leibowitz today announced that the first in a series of annual tree-planting initiatives will take place on Monday, May 1.The First Annual Leibowitz Arbor Day Tree Planting, held in conjunction with the San Antonio Tress organization, will unveil 14 trees and 11 crepe myrtles.8:50 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.Monday, May 1on city right-of-way betweenSouth San West

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This Darius Miles interview is the funniest thing I have read in quite a while. It's really long, but if you've got some time to goof around at work it's worth it.

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Tim Duncan turned 30 last night. Here's Tony Parker's take on the matter:"He's the same age as Eva (Longoria)," Tony Parker said. "That's old." Classic.

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Guess this means I have to get back to posting a little more regularly now:Best Local BlogThe JeffersonianEasy to read, well-laid-out and linked, and pleasantly snarky, this local blog offers intelligent, left-of-center armchairing on everything from county-judge races to homophobes to the UTSA Roadrunners.My favorite headline? “Ken Rodriguez blows... my mind.” Visit it at

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Over a month after his electoral shellacking, Frank Madla does the 'honorable' thing once again and resigns midterm:Sen. Frank Madla, who lost the Democratic primary to Rep. Carlos Uresti, said Monday he will leave office May 31.The move will leave his District 19 seat vacant until the November general election because Gov. Rick Perry doesn't intend to call an earlier special election, a

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This has obviously been something that most SA politicos and watchers have talked about at some point and time since June '05, but it seems that Julian Castro seems to get closer and closer to making this a reality.Since the beginning of 2006, I've heard Julian ask people for vote's, 'should he ever run for Mayor again.' Nothing surprising there, but the real kicker is the word on the street

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In The Pink put together some mighty good quotes of what soon to be former Rep. Delay has said over the years. Not to be left behind, let me add my two personal favorites:1) When speaking about the federal budgetHouse Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut

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Seriously. Then again most of y'all probably knew that already.I spent between 6 pm and 1 am yesterday drinking. After sleeping all that off I woke up this morning, opened up my e-mail and found out that Tom Delay is not only dropping out of the TX-22 race, he's also leaving Congress. Which is great news for that american experiment named Democracy. Although it does bring up a question- can

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So this came out sometime before the primary and I haven't gotten around to talking about it just yet. There's a whole slew of Express-News articles on the possibility of the Florida Marlins moving to San Antonio. As a sports fan I'm very much in favor of this, but alot of the talk going around the city doesn't really seem to jive right now- the cost of the stadium (which does not include a

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For today and today only:Democratic State Sen. Frank Madla will be inaugurated as Texas' governor for a day at 11 a.m. today at the Capitol.The District 19 senator was elected president pro tempore of the Texas Senate last year, which means he takes over if Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst both leave the state.Both will be out of the state on separate personal trips....The inauguration

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Tonight at midnight is the 2nd quarter FEC filing deadline. To reiterate, this is a pretty important deadline.If you can, give to one of these candidates:TX-17 Chet EdwardsTX-22 Nick LampsonTX-14 Shane SklarTX-21 John CourageTX-23 Rick BolanosYou can also give to Barbara Ann Radnofsky, she's going to continually be in need of money from now through November. But we also need to make sure BAR's

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What are these people thinking?House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws."I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of

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Little bit of a slow day here, but here's something that did not get the amount of publicity it should've got. Tom Craddick canceled his trip to Texas A&M-Kingsville:Rio Grande Guardian, a Web-based political newsletter that focuses on border-area issues, reports that House Speaker Tom Craddick has canceled his planned visit to the Kingsville campus of the Irma Rangel College of Pharmacy, whose

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A little late on this, but local anti-toll advocates got a bit of a reprieve late last week when the US-281 toll road contract was canceled:The Texas Department of Transportation has canceled an $84 million contract with Zachry Construction Corp. for the construction of toll lanes on U.S 281 north of Loop 1604, pending the outcome of additional environmental studies.The agency said Friday that if

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To donate.This Friday, March 31, is the quarterly FEC reporting deadline for federal candidates. You see these sort of posts go up every so often, maybe you donate, maybe you don't. The reality though, is that this upcoming deadline and- the subsequent one three months from now- are the two most important filing deadlines for Congressional candidates. And while a bad financial report in March

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Something I completely forgot about today, Kazen/Salinas Recount:A recount of ballots today confirmed that County Court-at-Law No. 9 Judge Oscar Kazen will serve a single term after all, and will be replaced next year by political newcomer Laura Salinas."'Landslide Laura' wins by seven votes," Salinas joked following the recount.Out of about 35,000 votes cast, she got seven more votes than Kazen

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For the third consecutive year since tuition was deregulated, public universities all across Texas will be seeing a definite hike in their tuition rates:Tuition and fees will rise over the next two years at all nine University of Texas System institutions, including the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to proposals approved by regents Tuesday.The boosts, which next year will range

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We're a little over two weeks away from the dreaded income tax filing deadline and there's a lot of people who, unlike me, haven't done their taxes yet. It can be a pretty stressful time, but never fear, we have an answer for you. Give Michael Kelley a call.He'll help get you through this, plus your first hour of consultation is free! And you can't go wrong with free, right? Seriously though,

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The Express-News has a write-up today about what constitutes as standard election practice down in Duval County:Allegations of voter fraud have resurfaced in Duval County, where records show one of every two voters who cast a ballot in this month's Democratic primary did so away from the polls.Longtime County Clerk Oscar Garcia Jr. said the number of mail-in ballots in the primary was unusually

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For the second time in a week, a San Antonian is in the news for complaining about a book:According to a notice released by 56-year-old student Eliseo Ordaz, he staged a sit-in and hunger fast on campus Monday to protest "racial discrimination in UTSA's English Department."Gabler said Ordaz complained to officials that a William Faulkner novel assigned by one of his professors contained a

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Cindy Pyo, the lady who asked for the book "The Handmaid's Tale" to be removed from the Judson ISD AP reading list posted her thoughts yesterday in the comments section. Rather than pointing you to them, I am posting them here on the front page, full and unedited, for everyone to read.I've let Mrs. Pyo know that I will be doing this and once the link is up and I forward it on to her, I will be

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Someone find this out for me, was it Confucious or 50 Cent that said, "it's best to keep your mouth shut and everyone think you are a fool, then to open one's mouth and remove all doubt:"The second round of campaigning begins in the quest to unseat Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Governor Rick (the slick) Perry. While many Democrats are defecting to the Kinky Friedman campaign, others are

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GOPUSA (the national subsidiary of GOPWORLD- a sister company of Halliburton) took a survey of its grassroots activists about anything and everything GOP. The results of 25 questions are here at the latest edition of the South Texas Republicans newsletter. I'd like to highlight several of these questions:Question 1 -- How satisfied are you with the job President Bush is doing? * Very

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(Demosthenes continues his argument.)To add more grist to the mill, here's Jaime Castillo's take on why Kinky's (in my opinion) vacuous style will dowell. It seems to mirror what I was saying earlier. Cincinnatus' disagreement with my point aside, I don't seem to be the lone voice in the wilderness.In response to a ‘What the hell are you thinking?!’-email, one of my friends, who is supporting

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(Demosthenses becoming my very own, weekend irregular. I don't agree with alot of this, namely the argument that Dems will be lumped together in to the 'status quo' pile. If you agree with that, then I'm here to deliver your wake-up call Mr. and Mrs. Van Winkle. Doesn't mean that, much to my chagrin, people won't view it this way though.Still, you need to hear something more than my incoherent

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Before I go for the day, can someone please tell me what the hell is up with certain readers ripping Oscar Kazen? Apparently he runs County Court At-Law #9 the way Palpatine runs the Empire.Actually, looking at their comments again, Palpatine would be an upgrade.So what gives? Specifics, please. Is it intimidation or his 'for-profit marriage business'? And where can I track down someone

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(Note- I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning waiting for this article to post. The things I do for you guys.)Judson ISD school board votes 5-2 to keep "The Handmaid's Tale" on its AP English curriculum:The critically acclaimed novel "The Handmaid's Tale" was reinstated to Judson Independent School District's Advanced Placement curriculum after board members voted 5-2 Thursday in favor of the

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What is that, a piece on Kinky Friedman that's not fluff?In a small auditorium at UTSA, Kinky "I'm Not A Politician" Friedman is stumping for political support.He undresses the governor — and himself — with R-rated humor: "I've got a head of hair better than Rick Perry — but it's in a place I can't show you."He likens Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Austin to warring street gangs: "The

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Thought this would happen, but since I hadn't seen it anywhere online I called Bexar Election and confirmed that Oscar Kazen will be requesting a recount in the Bexar County Court At-Law #9 race.Six votes is a very, very manageable margin to make up in a recount. And Kazen, showing some foresight, actually put some money away for a recount.It'll be interesting to see what happens and I'll keep

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Let me give my rousing endorsement to Super Suppers for this wild new (to me at least) idea of a meal-assembly store: What's for dinner?The answer to that question got a lot easier for Lysa Mendoza since she discovered a place where she could put together a home-cooked meal in minutes."I come in here between jobs and make dinner," Mendoza, a mother of three who holds two jobs, says. "Then I

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Normally this wouldn't be something I'd write on, but when it's part of a pattern it's definitely blogworthy.For the second time this year, the South San Antonio Independent School District Board of Trustees has decided to make a major decision withough public input:Blink an eye, and it could be missed: South San Antonio Independent School District trustees changed next fall's middle school

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The Sports Guy found out the hard way:Enrique, SA, TX: Bill, what were you thinking when you wrote that Spurs coach Greg Poppovich was going to retire after this season? Do you know how much money he would be walking away from if he did?Bill Simmons: (1:30 PM ET ) I didn't, actually. The funny part was all the angry e-mails from the San Antonio area -- is San Antonio a third world country or

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San Antonio's very own Judson Independent School District looks to pull the critically acclaimed novel, "The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood off of their AP English reading curriculum:Judson Superintendent Ed Lyman has pulled a critically acclaimed novel from the district's Advanced Placement English curriculum after a parent complained she found it sexually explicit and offensive to

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Perry wants tax reform.Dewhurst wants tax reform and school finance.Craddick's just praying he doesn't get kidnapped by some angry pharmacy students and dropped off in the middle of the King Ranch when he visits the Irma Rangel School of Pharmacy next week.Dewhurst seems, as always, to be positioning himself as the moderate in this game. Then again, when you're flanked by Perry and Craddick, how

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The guy who took the Roadrunners to two of their three NCAA tournaments gets reassigned:The University of Texas at San Antonio Athletics Director Lynn Hickey announced today that head men's basketball coach Tim Carter will be reassigned within the university effective immediately.“We appreciate what Tim has done during the last 11 years,” Hickey said. “Tim and his staff members have always

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Censure. Censure censure censure. Bring out one a month/week/day and even John Kerry could gain some traction. Or at least that's what the outcome of the latest daily kos strawpoll shows us. Feingold leads the way, jumping 18 points since January to 48%, Wesley Clark stays in second- even though he has bled over half of his support- with 15%, and Mark Warner keeps third warm with 11%.

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Rather than fund our schools?!?! I'm shocked *shocked* by your allegations and assertions! Seriously, this April 17 special session is going to be about playing the school finance equivalent of a shell game while trying to give as much money back to business as possible. Either that or House Republican leaders are going to just use the state's budget surplus to fix the specific task at hand

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The South Texas Republicans organization now has their weekly newsletters online, making it much easier for me to link to and show you all that I don't make this stuff up. Plus it also shuts up the locals who run around and act like if getting on this list means becoming a double agent for the DNC and going deep undercover for years at a time. Seriously, just sign up here. Moving on.First item

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After being down 13 votes on election day, Laura Salinas rallies back to win the Democratic nomination for County Court at Law #9 by six votes through provisional and overseas ballots:With more than 34,000 votes counted after the last overseas ballots were counted on March 20, Laura Salinas finished 6 votes ahead of Oscar Kazen for County Court #9 and is declared the winner. It will be up to Mr.

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I don't understand the anti-Spurs sentiment right now. The Sports Guy thinks they're a tired team that's unresponsive to their coach. Going so far as to believe that this is Pop's last year. It took a two month slow burn back to reality to finally have Mark Stein put the Spurs above the Pistons in his weekly rankings. And everyone keeps on talking about the Mavericks.And why is no one writing

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Via Kuff, I find out about this Houston Chronicle article detailing the utter ineptitude that has come with the passage of HB 2292 and the reorganization and privatization of vital health and human services.I've been trying to figure out which pieces to cut and paste onto this blog for a quote, but really, you should just read the entire thing. Here's some of the most meaningful information that

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Via Burnt Orange Report and PinkDome:"A third issue we examined was Carter Casteel's claim that she was not against the ban on homosexual foster parents. While it's true that she voted for the final bill that included the ban, when the ban all by itself was up for a vote, she voted against it. Then she went on record stating that she was for the bill overall, but expressed reservations on the

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What happened in nearby Seguin a couple of days ago is just bizarre. It involves cows, criminals, and cops, and ended up torching two squad cars, shutting down I-10 for 45 minutes, killing two cows and starting a small grass fire. Go read it for yourself.

Cincinnatushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115524502037990716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10541216.post-1142722906305377542006-03-18T14:58:00.000-08:002006-03-18T15:01:46.333-08:00

(Commenter Demosthenes taking a little bit of the load off of me.)Who says your vote doesn’t count?We are now about to lose a second incumbent county judge by one single vote.Well, two votes, actually, but one vote just sounds more dramatic. With thecounting of mail-in ballots, Laura Salina creeps her margin ahead by 13votes. What happened, Oscar??The outcomes of two primary elections won't be

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You can now vote for the San Antonio Current's "Best of 2006" list. About the same as always and it'll take me a while to name all of the places I'm voting for, but there is one part of the list that bothers me. No "Best Local Blog" or "Best State Blog" categories. Instead we get "Best Local Website", which means all the local blogs get to compete with mysa.com and woai.com. Fun! Which leads

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Let me get my last words on last weeks primary in:Governor: I predicted a healthy win for Bell, but did not expect the blowout that it was. Goes to show you a year-plus of campaigning will nearly always beats less than 100 days of campaigning.Lt. Governor: Ben Grant versus Maria Luisa Alvarado. I voted for Grant in the primary, unless something changes my mind I'll be voting for Grant in the

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Here's the list of Texas blogs, or at least the ones I know of, that are nominated for a Koufax award by category:Best Single Issue Blog:Grits For BreakfastBest Series:The Terrorist Mother Nature @ AnnatopiaBest Expert Blog:Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in TexasMost Humorous Post:Homegrown Terror @ AnnatopiaBest Group Blog:Burnt Orange ReportBest Blog Community:The AgonistBest State and

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- Commenter Demosthenes comes to us today with a guest post on the two too close to call Bexar County Democratic races that are left to be decided by the incoming overseas ballots.So, two races are still too close to call, and we’re biting our nailsawaiting the straggling mail ballots to come in. We’ll know on March 20thwho will be the nominee (and, by virtue of no republican opposition

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Via a lot of other sites, we find out that the Koufax voting period ends on Sunday. As you know from previous posts, The Jeff has been nominated in both the Best New Blog Category (which pits us against blogs like Pink Dome and In the Pink... great) and the Best State/Local Blog (which pits us against blogs like Burnt Orange Report and Off the Kuff... even better). So basically we have no

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So today The Jeff turns 1. What do you get the blogger that has everything? Hows about a Koufax award.Their polls opened yesterday and apparently I've been nominated for both the Best New Blog and the Best State/Local blog awards (can you put this on your resume?). So I've got that going for me. But there are alot of Texas blogs nominated, so all I ask is that you and enough of your friends

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As I said above, forgive the lack of links today, but I just don't have the time or the energy to find all of them right now.I'd give you endorsements, but really, we're a day away:Governor: Chris Bell wins by a healthy margin. Gammage made a pretty bad decision in going with yard signs over direct mail. Especially when you have to scrunch pretty close to the sign to see the word "Governor"

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For those of you who have followed the Isiah Thomas reign in NYC, I just have one thing to add to this. When the Knickerbockers recently played the Spurs in SA, at some point and time in the third quarter the Knicks had this lineup on the floor:Stephon MarburySteve FrancisJalen RoseMalik RoseEddie CurryThat's three cancerous, shoot-first point guards, a undersized power forward, and a center

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We get to link to pics like these. Thank you Sean-Paul.

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Look for light posting (one or two a day) from here through March 7, maybe March 8. Depends on how bad the hangover is.I've been really wanting to write about this for quite a while though, just haven't had the time. I, alongside alot of other people, received the two e-mails sent from surrogates of the Gammage campaign ripping Chris Bell for his voting record in Congress and for receiving the

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition 2006. Just another excuse to link to pictures of our favorite model, Marissa Miller.And yes I know it's the hip thing to rip into the swimsuit edition, and I know I could go buy 'adult' magazines for about the same price. But with some notable exceptions, these swimsuit models are exponentially hotter than the other women. And until the swimsuit models

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The SA Current breaks it, the SA Lightning confirms it- Ken Wolf, the dude that wrote the infamous ghetto e-mail during last year's mayoral election is still working for HB Zachry.From the Current:Two men, two similar corporate violations, and two drastically different endings.On January 30, George Dickerson, who worked for Zachry Construction as a federal-procurement coordinator, sent an

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If you're a Democrat and you vote for Kinky... (from Perry vs World)Kinky Friedman on Tuesday became the second candidate in the gubernatorial race to say surplus state funds should be returned to taxpayers.Wait, I thought this guy wanted to give teacher's more money? It's funny because that $4 billion dollar number sounds just about right to give Texas teachers and public schools the needed

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I finally left my apartment and attended the latest Drinking Liberally meeting/shinding/quest/thing last night over at Stonewerks. Thanks to Bill for organizing and hosting the event. It was good to be able to meet and drink with other like minded people.I should be attending every Drinking Liberally function (they're monthly) from here on out, and I'll be sure to post when and where they are

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Just in case you missed it below, HD-118 Democratic candidate Joe Farias has been endorsed by the Texas State Teacher's Assocation:On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, Farias officially received the endorsement of TSTA further strengthening his candidacy for the 118 spot. Michelle Hickman, the President of the Harlandale Education Association and TSTA member speaks on the reasoning behind the coveted

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Peggy Fikac over at Strange Bedfellows lets us know that more and more Dem leaning organizations are, at the very least, entertaining the notion of endorsing Republican candidates. Both the Texas Federation of Teacher's and the AFL-CIO are in this group while the Texas State Teacher's Association has already endorsed Republican Gubernatorial candidate Carole Keaton Mclellan Rylander

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Hopefully by this time next year, John Courage will just be beginning to get his wits about him on Capitol Hill. But for now he's in DC meeting with some Dem friendly organization and making key contacts for the year ahead. Matt has inperson updates and some photos while the Express-News gives Courage some pub from last night's VETPAC fundraiser.And while Courage rips Lamar Smith for his

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Seems to be what I'm hearing from quite a few Bob Gammage supporters right now. After crowing about Gammage's fundraising at the end of the year considering he had very little time to work with, it seems all I'm hearing about now is how much better Gammage is doing at conserving that money.Guys, come on. Bell outraised Gammage by a 2:1 margin in the same timeframe and then outspent him in the

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Here's Forbes list of the year's (is it annually?) most entrepreneurial supermodels. Nothing else needs to be said.

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You get interviewed by the NY Times:Mr. Deutsch's educational record was first challenged on Monday by Nick Anthis, who graduated from Texas A&M last year with a biochemistry degree and has been writing a Web log on science policy, scientificactivist.blogspot.com.After Mr. Anthis read about the problems at NASA, he said in an interview: "It seemed like political figures had really overstepped the

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Since when does moving students around to drop a local high school from 5A to 4A classification constitute front page, top of the fold news? The North East Independent School District today will ask the UIL to add about 450 students from a magnet school to Lee High School's enrollment, moving the San Antonio school back to Class 5A for the next school year, NEISD Superintendent Richard Middleton

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A buddy of mine has a brand new blog called The Scientific Activist where he gets to merge his three favorite subjects- Science, Politics, and the Media. Two posts that I need to bring to your attention here:First, is this one where he highlights a NY Times article talking about partisan neurons and what portions of the brain are stimulated by political discussions. That's an interesting

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If you haven't gone over to the brand spanking new Burnt Orange Report and registered with them yet, I urge you to do so. There's a whole slew of benefits from registering with them, not the least of which is you get to post your own journals now. BOR is one of the most read, and most respected, blogs in the state. This new blogging platform will only further those two titles.Our second ad

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The complete and utter disconnect between his ethics votes and his ethics proposals.Take, for instance, his vote for Roy Blunt- part and parcel of Delay's corrupt, Washington political machine:Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, said Texans backed Blunt because "he did a good job, and deserved to be the majority leader."Smith also fails to tell us of his meetings with Blunt where the former Majority

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Matt and Strange Bedfellows broke it, while Kuff give us more information. The most hearfelt response goes out to Corte's November opponent, Larry Stallings.It looks like Corte will probably appoint his wife to serve in his stead. Don't know how this exactly affects his re-election effort however. More details whenever they come in or whenever someone else grabs them.Best wishes to Rep. Corte

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Via the Express-News, we find out that George Dickinson, a former HB Zachry employee that was the second employee in the past 8 months to be fired over inappropriate e-mail use, has killed himself. I kid you not, I had a post right here ready to go about this incident. Luckily enough I always check the website I'm linking to for anymore updates right before I hit the publish button.My

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Ken Rodriguez continues the Express-News lovefest with George Antuna, this time comparing him to Elvira Reyna in a 'woe-is-she' column:There is no Texas lawmaker like Rep. Elvira Reyna.What sets her apart is not that she picked cotton as a 5-year-old in Harlingen. It's not that she spoke only Spanish when she started first grade. It's not that she earned her college degree at age 30.No, what

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Hows about you click on the just put up (or soon to be put up) TexaDs logo to your right. For just a few dollars you can get over 250,000 Texans per day looking at your ad. It's just that easy. So go on, click the logo, you know you want to.

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Rick Bolanos has his website up and ready at rickbolanosfortexas.com. Just to satisfy my own curiousity, after going to Bolanos' website I went to one of the domains that the Bonilla camp picked up a few weeks back- rickbolanos.com. Check it out for yourself. Wonder what sort of information Henry Bonilla thinks is for the benefit of CD-23 voters?Also, did anyone else see Henry Cuellar waiting

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As of Monday morning San Antonio catches up to the likes of Waco with the opening of our first Krystal Burger. And apparently, Krystal Burger joins the city with a built in following:"We've been waiting for this for a long time," said Wendy Robinson, a Krystal burger enthusiast since the 1990s. She had her last Krystal burger more than a year ago while road-tripping through North Carolina."

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Adam Levine is the first guy out of the gate? Really? The "Tap on my window, knock on my door" guy? You realize you've just setting the bar so much lower now that once you and I do meet, you're gonna be so blown away it's not even gonna be a challenge, right? And then it's not gonna be as much fun. Right?

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The Express-News created their first political blog yesterday- Strange Bedfellows. Their first post lets us know that Henry Cuellar and Ciro Rodriguez have finally finished up their negotiations for their first debate, next Monday at KellyUSA. Add Strange Bedfellows to your blog list and check them out.This column by E-N political editor, Jaime Castillo, detailing how the local AFL-CIO chapter

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Not words you see or hear everyday, but consolidating my student loans is something that needs to be done sooner rather than later. Congressman Chet Edwards talks to us today about the federal boondoggle that is the Republican party these days. As also seen over at Pink Dome and Common Sense: LinkOn January 31st, Congress begins its 2006 session. While public attention is focused on the Jack

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We come to find out in yesterday's Express-News that some of the alternative measures being thrown around City Hall right now to help keep crime under control are the same measures that would've been taken care of under the proposed Crime Control and Prevention District that failed overwhelmingly last November: Other council members said they'd look first at the Police Department's operations to

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With nearly 20 years of failure to back it up, certain segments of the population still believe using state-mandated standardized testing as the sole indicator of educational achievement are the way to go:Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell said Tuesday that public school students should not be required to pass state-mandated tests to advance from one grade to another or to graduate

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Any Congressman who pushed through the weakening of House Ethics rules to temporarily keep Tom Delay as House Majority Leader should sit behind his desk, shut his pie hole, and let other, non-tainted, members of Congress take the lead and offer real reform.

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Mayor Hardberger gives the yearly State Of The City Address. The Express-News has bits and pieces of it, but I'm trying to find a copy of the entire speech. As of right now, nothing eye-raising about it. Except for this blurb at the end of the E-N piece:The mayor's address was the most attended State of the City event, according to organizers. It also was the first time all 10 City Council

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I was for vouchers before I was against them.- Carole Keeton Mclellan Rylander StrayhornThat's what it boils down to. One Dem-turned-Republican-turned-Independent's 'float with the prevailing political winds' philosophy. Break out the windsail pictures again. $100,000 cash donations by uber-voucher advocate Jaimes Leininger and his signature as a guarantor on a $950,000 loan to her campaign.

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Kos lists the Cuellar-Rodriguez-Morales matchup as one of the two most important races coming up next. Unfortunately, about 2/3 of the post and comments talk about the other race. I still don't understand why it's taken people so long to look at this race. Ah well, you can't buy the sort of readership that Kos gets over there, so as more and more people read about this race, hopefully they're

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As their next issue hits the newstands later on today, something that I've been remiss in talking about this past week is the Current's 20th birthday. I've read SA's weekly, alternative newspaper for about 8 years now. It's a good weekly change of pace from the Express-News. You could also probably make a good argument that Alt. weekly papers have been the print form of blogging for quite a

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First article of the year about the County Commissioner Pct. 2 race between five-term incumbent Paul Elizondo and former City Councilman Enrique Barrera. Really, it's about blah vs. blah-lite. I'm very happy I don't get to move into this precinct until after the March primary. Actually, I'd probably end up voting for Barrera. In an institution like Commissioner's Court, I'll take change

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That was the sound coming out of my mouth, imagining the looks on the faces of Royal Massett and Paul Burka as I learned this weekend that "Democratic Gubernatorial Frontrunner" Felix Alvarado's* filing check had bounced. Wonderful choice fellas. Really. Good. Choice.Actually, it's been a couple of days since then and both Massett and Burka have moved on already. They're in the process of

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One, it seems like people are actually starting to use the brakes on the "Kick Joe Leiberman Out Of Office" car. Thank God. Two things to note here. Leiberman really isn't the Yankee version of Zell Miller. No really, he isn't. And what exactly is the anti-Leiberman crowd running against?Yet, in picking this fight against Lieberman, we're not really running 'on' something. I see no thread

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FYI- The posts today have a bit of an angry tone today. Don't know why.Everyone's covered this already. Just a couple of things from me.First, about effin' time. I know that everyone's been caught up by the HD-48 special election and trying to find a Democratic primary opponent for Satan, I mean Joe Leiberman, but really? No one thought this race to be that important outside of a handful of

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A few days ago I e-mailed Scots over at Grits for Breakfast asking for his take on this Express-News article about the persistent overcrowding problem we have here at the Bexar County jail. In response he wrote an amazing blog post giving me a whole heck of alot of background and links that I have still yet to full get through (but I promise I will Scott!).Yesterday, he answered my question as

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