Andrew Welsh-Huggins covered yesterday's heaing and filed, "Judge: Ohio inmate's execution appeal has limits," for AP, via Google News.
An Ohio inmate fighting the state's second attempt to execute him will be limited to a simple argument, a federal judge said Wednesday: Does the state, having failed once, have the legal right to [...]
"Ohio's Perverse First Place," is the title of her Huffington Post essay.
Ohio executed Ken Biros by lethal injection yesterday. Having garnered this country's worst record of execution botches, the state also acquired another first place by imposing a method of execution never before used on anyone, anywhere. Mr. Biros died from a [...]
Jordan Smith writes, "Texas Death Penalty Sentencing Declines," for the current issue of the Austin Chronicle, distributed today, but dated December 11.
The number of new death sentences imposed in Texas this year was the lowest since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, according to a report released Dec. 7 by [...]
The southern Dallas political and business set turned out in force for a breakfast meeting at Gilley's this morning with Mayor Tom Leppert and city manager Mary Suhm.
The message was that momentum is building, and building quickly, for growth in areas that have stagnated for years.
I [...]
Five lions will be coming to the Dallas Zoo when its new African Savanna exhibit opens next year, Mayor Tom Leppert told a breakfast group this morning.
Zoo officials told our David Flick last week that the lions would be part of the new exhibit, [...]
UPDATE - Archived streaming video of the December 7th news conference in the Speaker's Committee Room is available for viewing, using Real Player, here.
TCADP's 2009 annual report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2009: The Year in Review, is in Adobe .pdf format.
In recent weeks, a renewed epidemic of suicide bombings has swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, climaxing in huge blasts in Baghdad that killed 130 innocents on Tuesday.
The Obama administration says these bombings have nothing to do with religion. It's purely coincidental that the perps preach [...]
This fall, when U.S. officials agreed to expanded military-base access in Colombia' [...]
Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, [...]
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, citing Afghan statistics, said 2,659 Afghans had applied to join [...]
As the news [...]
Three provisions constitute the vicious heart of the Democrats' health-care overhaul.
The first is "guaranteed issue" and "community rating." This is the requirement that insurance companies have to offer coverage to people who are already sick, and that they be limited in their ability' [...]
It’s been a while since I blogged about Virgin Galactic but I was reading this article today and I figured it was worth doing a little something about. VG is almost ready to start flying passengers aboard their suborbital rockets. As is succinctly summarized in the article, [...]
More than 2/3 of abortion clinics have closed since 1991.I often chide my friends in Houston for having kind of dull, stupid muni elections based on 'qualifications' and 'skills' instead of the more fun 'bullshit' that often permeates city elections here in Austin. That's not to say candidates in Austin elections aren't qualified and possessed of the skills necessary' [...]
Fear has been eliminated from the human mind for the first time in a series of pioneering experiments that could open the way to treating a range of phobias and anxiety disorders with behavioural therapy rather than drugs.
Scientists have selectively blocked thoughts of fear by interfering [...]
CANDIDATE SEEKING CANDIDATE
DWM, DIVORCED WHITE MALE WITH KIDS, 63, REPUBLICAN LAND COMMISSIONER SEEKS DEMOCRAT OPPONENT FOR 11 MONTH RELATIONSHIP. MUST ENJOY TRAVELING AROUND TEXAS, LONG WALKS [...]
Legalised euthanasia has led to a severe decline in the quality of care for terminally-ill patients in Holland, it has been claimed.
Many ask to die 'out of fear' because of an absence of effective pain relief, according to a new book.
Even the architect of [...]
Richmond Republican Cynthia Dunbar will not seek re-election next year to a second term on the State Board of Education, fellow board member David Bradley confirmed Wednesday
Dunbar, whose expansive district includes northern Travis County, wrote in an e-mail that she would provide a written statement on her plans later.
Dunbar [...]
Tomorrow night at 7 PM at the Trinity Episcopal Church located at 1015 Holman Street at Main (map) is a public meeting for the H-GAC Livable Centers Study of the Ensemble/HCC Station area in Midtown. You can click on the flyer for the details, but the basic idea [...]
British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.
A survey published yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development sees Britain languishing with the Czech Republic and Poland in international [...]
Palin/Paul because of "their libertarian philosophies"
Dramatic Drop in just last Two Weeks
BREAKING NEWS OVERNIGHT!!Democratic statehouse Rep. Mike Villarreal of San Antonio is considering running for comptroller and is expected to make a decision [...]
Yes, it does indeed appear that Gene [...]
"Compromise Plan" still forces Individuals to buy Coverage
If one thing was clear from the testimony of Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, it's that she wants to see immigration reform addressed in 2010.
With senators questioning Napolitano on everything from [...]
Democratic statehouse Rep. Mike Villarreal of San Antonio is considering running for comptroller and is expected to make a decision next week. The five-term House member is an investor who holds a masters in public policy from Harvard.
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Villarreal’s spokesman said he will be launching a new website that [...]
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting [...]
Farmersville family left in cold after city orders 'green' system cut off
December 9, 2009
STEVE STOLER / WFAA-TV
FARMERSVILLE - Rex and Sherry Thain have lived in their Collin County home for 19 years. They decided to go "green" 10 years ago and installed a [...]
There are [...]
With little discussion, the Dallas City Council has approved a development plan for a large swath of southern Dallas around the University of North Texas campus.
The plan is exciting to advocates of walkable and transit-oriented urban design.
It focuses on developing the area in [...]
The Yes Men 
Mayor Salinas 
