By now, most everyone has heard something of the off-the-mike November conversation between Texas Education Agency Deputy Comissioner Lizzette Reynolds and Associate Deputy Commissioner Gina Day that was made public last week. After a very brief meeting, someone forgot to turn off her microphone and the two were recorded as Reynolds told Day to stop making excuses for the State Center for Early Childhood Development run by Susan Landry out of the Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
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Josh Harkinson used to write for us here at the Houston Press before he decided that living in San Francisco was somehow a lifestyle upgrade.Now he writes for Mother Jones, continuing his stellar career of raking muck.It turns out that Harkinson grew up just six blocks from where George and Laura Bush will be living, the exclusive Dallas neighborhood of Preston Hollow. (Frankly, we were completely unaware of Harkinson's exalted roots, or we would have watched our table manners better