Month: <span>January 2011</span>

Tell the governor

I posted a blog item last week about how parents and other taxpayers – including people who normally don’t want any part of the political world – are beginning to realize that they and their children will be the ultimate victims of the deep budget cuts being championed at the state Capitol by Gov. Rick […]

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Welcome to California!

Money – more specifically, the lack of it – was big news in both Austin and Sacramento today. In Sacramento, Jerry Brown, the new California governor, laid out his plan for addressing a budgetary shortfall estimated at $25.4 billion. You remember California. It’s that large state on the West Coast, the state that envies Texas, […]

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The lights are coming on

Many Texans, so far, haven’t paid much attention to all the talk about budgetcutting at the statehouse. And, many who have seen or read something about it have had difficulty relating to the supersized numbers in news accounts. Slowly, however, light bulbs are beginning to blink on, as in the News 8 Austin story (linked […]

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Muddled minds, crowded classrooms

State Sen. Dan Patrick’s thinking on a number of issues, including the importance of small class sizes, is (to put it politely) muddled. Consider his interview with KTRKTV (Channel 13, Houston), which aired yesterday in a news story about a proposal, which he supports, to remove the 22student per class limit in kindergarten through fourth […]

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