Author: vpltz

(Please feel free to distribute this to any Southern state bloggers you know!) In the American South, in states like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, South Carolina, and others, Democrats and...

Texas Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, and Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick all knew about the acts of sexual violence being perpetrated on youthful offenders at the Texas Youth Commission as early as last fall....

What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas, especially when it comes to air quality issues. That’s why officials from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality are planning to participate in administrative...

SAN ANTONIO, Tex.–U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Thursday night declared that she would not have voted for the war in Iraq had she known there were no weapons of mass destruction in that country. Responding to...

[I rarely like to cross-post verbatim from my blog, but I noticed my fellow contributors here at BOR hadn’t posted yet on redistricting, so here is my massive missive Redistricting Roundup for your viewing pleasure. Not...