Blue Dot Blues

Today I had to fill up my car - something I'm thankfully doing a little less often thanks to being a work-at-home mom.  Every gas station I passed during my errand-running advertised regular 87 octane fuel at $3.55/gallon (except for one at $3....

We finally got an official, bona fide court order from the three judge panel on when the Texas primary will be.  May 29 takes us pretty much out of the running for presidential primary relevance (unless, somehow, some way, we can have the brokered...

I have shopped for groceries over the Williamson County line for quite some time, not liking my sales tax levy to go to Cap Metro, but now it looks like I'll be doing that exclusively to avoid the punishing bag ban in Austin city limits.
The council passed the ban 7-0 (thanks to Nanci Wilson on Twitter for the update - apparently this happened quite late in the evening)....

School districts already have the ability to self-govern themselves free from the majority of most state regulations. The Texas Education Code allows for districts to develop a charter to become home-rule districts, freeing themselves of many of the...