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Commentary lets folks know all the time that I subscribe to the Chronicle. I think it is important to support local journalism. That includes sports and entertainment coverage. For example, I sort of keep up with local high school sports and I learned a few days ago from the Chron sports section which high schools got reassigned in their UIL classification. I would be devastated if the Chronicle were to announce they were eliminating their sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and state capitol divisions. We are the fourth largest city in the country. We need a full-service newspaper.
Washington D.C. has seven professional sports teams – Capitals, Commanders, Mystic, Nationals, Spirit, United, and Wizards. It is crazy that the Washington Post would dismantle their sports coverage. My goodness. The Post is the newspaper in our nation’s capital. What a tragedy. The owner of the Post will forever deservedly be an ugly stain in American journalism history.
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This is a good idea. See this from the Chron:
U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is buying expensive television real estate to get his message out to voters a week ahead of early voting.
Talarico’s campaign spent more than $100,000 to air an ad during Sunday’s Super Bowl in the Houston market on KPRC. The campaign confirmed the 30-second ad will run once during the game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.
The ad has a familiar theme, focusing on pushing billionaires to pay their fair share in taxes.
“Billionaires don’t just influence politicians, they own them,” says Talarico, a Democrat from Austin.
I will be watching.
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Breaking News. On a related note, the Lone Star Rising PAC supporting Rep. Talarico just launched an attack ad against Cong. Jasmine Crockett. Maybe she is leading in the polls.
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The Chron E-Board endorsed State Rep. Hubert Vo’s opponent, Alief ISD school board president Darlene Breaux, in the Democratic Party primary in House District 149. In the endorsement, the E-Board took a couple of shots at Rep. Vo, like this:
In 2007, he was instrumental in the creation of the International Management District that helped invest in public safety and beautification projects that have made the area a commercial destination. Since then, he has struggled to add to that accomplishment. His wins in the Legislature could be called modest at best.
In our conversation with him this time, he mentioned the success of the management district several times, repeating himself to a worrying degree.
And this:
We were ready to call for someone to replace Vo’s troublingly lethargic reputation in Austin, and Breaux’s combination of elected experience and policy vision won us over.
Ouch.
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This is a head scratcher. I don’t know why an op-ed on former Cong. Colin Allred’s 2024 campaign is of interest. This is the headline of the op-ed.
Sorry, but Colin Allred’s campaign really was mediocre | Opinion
Who gives a rat’s arse. Oh, well.
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The featured photo is from the front page of today’s Chron hard copy. Just so you know, here is from the front-page article:
The program’s $1 billion appropriation is projected to support between 90,000 and 100,000 accounts in its first year. If the number of applications exceeds the program’s capacity, the state will run an income- and disability-based lottery to determine which families ultimately receive vouchers.
I thought there would be more.
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Well, it’s done. See this from the Chron:
Framber Valdez waited most of the offseason, but on the cusp of spring training, the left-hander landed a lucrative deal.
Valdez, the erstwhile Houston Astros ace, agreed to a three-year, $115 million deal Wednesday with the Detroit Tigers, a person with knowledge of the agreement confirmed. Valdez’s deal includes an opt-out after the second season. ESPN first reported the agreement, which is pending a physical.
Adios, Framber.
The Tigers visit Daikin Park in mid-June.