TPA Round-Up: Monday, January 11, 2010

by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas

Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 11:50 PM CST

With blue lips and chattering teeth, the Texas Progressive Alliance brings you a hot steaming mug of blog highlights for the week. Thanks to Charles Kuffner at Off the Kuff for putting this together for all the bloggers in the TPA.

• This week on Left of College Station: the filling deadline has ended and the primaries in the Brazos Valley are crowded with candidates. Also, a look at who tweets among the primary candidates for Texas Congressional District 17 and which does not want Left of College Station to follow their tweets. Teddy also takes a look at the modern day slavery of human trafficking, and how Houston has become one of the biggest hubs for the modern day slave trade. Left of College Station also covers the week in headlines.
  
  
• WCNews at Eye On Williamson posts on the Texas GOP's inability to govern and the opportunities that provides for Democrats, GOP divisions can bring Democratic gains in Texas.
  
  
• The Denton County candidates are ready to go at the Texas Cloverleaf.
  
  
• How does Texas compare with other states? A statistical analysis with graphs reveals the truth at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS.
  
  
• Off the Kuff has a modest suggestion for how to handle Harris County's current budget shortfall.
  
  
• CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme agrees it's time to put our money in community banks.
  
  
• Thinking and acting both locally and globally, Neil at Texas Liberal sent membership donations to both Greenpeace and the Democratic Women of Denton County.
  
  
• After a noted anti-gay and Republican activist filed to run as a Democrat against an unchallenged incumbent GOP county commissioner, investigation determined that the man used the wrong address and was disqualified from the ballot. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs has more on the story.
  
  
• Bay Area Houston nominates Dave Wilson for the "Dripping with Hypocrisy" award with One Man. No Woman.
  
  
• WhosPlayin has the story of a public servant who manages a $13 million facility, where he works for the taxpayer by day, and for the private club that rents the facility at night.
  
  
• McBlogger sees some problems with Sen. Hutchison's ad taking on 39% and some of the people making excuses for 39%.