The Texas Legend is an award bestowed on an individual, company or organization in Texas whose vision, leadership and influence have had an enduring effect on the technology industry.
Hillary Clinton’s ten point victory over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, a swing state, makes clear what has become increasingly evident in the hotly contested race of the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 --Hillary Clinton would be a stronger candidate for the Democrats against the Republican nominee John McCain in the general election than Barack Obama. (That is why it is a little baffling why Republican organizations are running negative ads against Obama when some conservative talk show hosts encourage Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary in the Democratic primaries).
Speaker Tom Craddick’s decision to appoint Rep. John Otto and Rep. Ken Paxton as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Property Tax Relief and Appraisal Reform respectively was an important victory for homeowners and other property owners concerned about out-of-control property taxes in Texas.
Politics is crazier even than we sometimes think.Half the time, it seems, instead ofaddressing issues of great solemnity with the attention they deserve -- foreign foes, energy supplies,government overspending -- we talk endlessly about...would you believe Jeremiah Wright?
Many people today believe the news industry is loaded with political agendas, run by people with axes to grind, and an industry which has fallen into mediocrity. Newspapers across the country are in trouble.
Disquisitions on teaching technique commonly give off the odor of learned monographs on, say, jute manufacture in British India.Not so the rhetorical dust-ups we see — if we’re looking and listening — over arguments for the explicit teaching of grammar to Texas public school students. Here we confront a first-order educational issue. You can tell by the voice tones.
