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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Photo by borman818The Texas Workforce Commission announced this afternoon that they're upping the weekly payments to people getting unemployment checks, thanks to the Obama stimulus bill.The checks will increase by $25 a week starting mid-March, for everyone receiving benefits as of February 22.Twenty-five bucks a week -- a couple of years ago, maybe we would have made some joke about an extra lap dance. These days, we ain't scoffing.Employers won't be charged the extra money (yeah, yeah, we kno
For 13 hours, guard Jeanette Bledsoe wondered if she would see one more murder inside prison walls -- her own. Now she wants to make sure TDCJ protects those who protect us from society's rejects.
Maybe money's tight for you these days so you play the lotto, maybe the Daily 4 game. Then you win and the payout is so much -- $600 -- you have to take the ticket to a claims office in Houston to get your check. That was Jesse Phillips's situation last week until a worker at the claims office took his winning ticket and refused to give him any money. "For the State of Texas to do something like this is absolutely petty, and the government is sick for allowing something like this to happen," sa
Photo by Pete Vonder Haar​Conservative radio/TV host Sean Hannity began hosting his "Freedom Concert" series, benefiting Oliver North's Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund for the children of soldiers killed or disabled in action, back in 2003. Last Saturday the 2009 incarnation kicked off at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, boasting a powerhouse lineup featuring the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood, and other acts that haven't been relevant since the 1980s, if ever, and Hair Balls wa
