Archive for December 2022

Nope. Not W the former president. Commentary is talking about the 43 college football bowl games that get underway this morning with the Bahamas Bowl from Nassau, Bahamas featuring UAB and Miami of Ohio.  Rice plays tomorrow against Southern Mississippi in the Lending Tree Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. UH plays Louisiana in next Friday’s Independence…

Texas voters have spoken. I don’t know what else to say. I guess we deserve this. This is from the front page of today’s Chron: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claim nongovernmental organizations at the border that assist immigrants who arrive in Texas may have also helped people cross the…

The horrible Sandy Hook school shootings happened 10 years ago today. _____ Two years ago today, the Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden’s victory as President 306 to 232. Treasonous Donald Trump and his fellow insurrectionists still have not accepted the results. _____ We lost a great one yesterday. Lupe “Champ” Fraga is no longer with…

Commentary got a letter from the Chron a few days ago saying the price of the hard copy is going up. I will now be paying like $3.03 on average per day.  Oh, well.  Remember a couple or so months ago when the Chron revisited the issue of the TIRZ. The entity that was originally…

This is from a front-page story in the hard copy of the Chron today: Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations. These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for…

Congratulations to my good friend and client State Rep. Christina Morales for being elected Vice-Chair of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus. Rep. Morales is also my State Rep. _____ CNN contributor Bakari Sellers tweeted this last night about the Brittney Griner swap: Y’all mad Biden went and got an American? Really? Our President went and…

42 years ago, this evening, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. Howard Cosell announced the breaking news during a Monday Night Football telecast on ABC. John Lennon was 40 years old. I will never forget. _____ The breaking news this morning is Brittney Griner is finally coming home.  Nice job, President Joe Biden.…

81 years ago, today. _____ Don’t you love this rant: Fox News host Laura Ingraham did not take kindly to the news that Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Tuesday’s runoff election in Georgia. Neither candidate received a majority of votes in November’s general election, thus triggering a runoff in accordance with Georgia state law. Warnock’s victory…

Commentary supports this. Here is from the Chron today: The League of United Latin American Citizens on Monday filed its long-anticipated lawsuit against the city of Houston, seeking to get rid of at-large City Council seats it says leave Hispanic residents with insufficient representation at City Hall. The group, one of the largest Hispanic civil rights organizations in the…

Here is from a front-page story in today’s Chron hard copy: A quarter of Texas rural hospitals are at risk of closing soon because of pandemic-related financial stress on the health care system, according to a study presented Wednesday by the Texas Hospital Association. The study, compiled by health care consulting company Kaufman Hall, found the…