Near Miss Between "Rocket" and Continental Flight Over Texas
by An interesting tidbit from my neck of the woods: Liberty County Sheriff’s officials are expected to meet with the FAA on Tuesday to discuss what …
Category: Texas
Senate Now Telling Texans What to Eat
In a move that seems more appropriate in the big-government Mecca of New York City than on the open range in Texas, the state senate has passed a measure this week that would dictate to Texans what kind of food they can order at restaurants.
Crime / Death Penalty / Texas
Ertman & Pena’s Killer To Finally Die
The horrifying murder of Jenny Ertman and Elizabeth Pena was my welcome home to Houston after living in Oregon for several years. I remember the …
Crime / Death Penalty / Law / Texas
Texas Killer’s Death Sentence Upheld
In 1991, Kenneth Wayne Morris, a 9th grade dropout who is now 37, killed James Moody Adams, co-founder of the Northwest Academy while while his …
What Are the Common Elements?
These 3 events have at least 2 things in common. What are they? First, the father who microwaved his 2-month-old "loves his baby" and today …
Texans Against Nukes
The Houston Chronicle says: Texas anti-nuclear activists are rallying their forces to challenge the so-called nuclear renaissance that could see the state become home to …
Oysters a Bad Business
Get a bad one and you’ll wish you’d never tried shellfish, for sure. In Texas, some oyster processing companies are having a bit of indigestion …
The Myth of Student Free Speech
by Saw this and it made me laugh. OK, so this kid decides to wear his John Edwards 2008 T-shirt to school (High School) and gets …
Dog Walker Law Bites Volunteers
Austin’s city government is now requiring that volunteers at the city’s animal shelter submit to background checks and turn over private information such as social …
Justice for Ashton?
Ashton Glover was 16 years old when she was murdered by two high school classmates last year. After his arrest, Matthew McCombs, the trigger “man”, …