http://www.yourstreet.com/news/tx YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us Editor's note: J.P. Giglio is one of 60 AP voters. • JP Top 25 archive • AP, USA Today polls • Pollspeak (how everyone else voted) The top eight didn't change for the first time all season but No. 9 through No. 25 is the same roulette wheel it has been since... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756501/jp-top-25-week-12 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:04:08 -0800 To mark the anniversary (yesterday) of John F. Kennedy's assassination, National Geographic Channel at 9 tonight presents "The Lost JFK Tapes," a look at that horrible time in U.S. history, through news footage, radio reports, audio recordings and home... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756504/history-lesson-the-lost-jfk-tapes-the-assassination- Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:08 -0800 What? Tort reform hasn't lowered the cost of health care in Texas ? What??? I feel duped. Same feeling I got when I found out electricity deregulation did not result in the promised lower electricity bills . And I got that same bad feeling when I was told that... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756219/musings-more-proof-we-were-lied-to Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:30:08 -0800 Combine religion, race, money and politics, and you have the major ingredients of the passionate debate brewing over what the next generation of Texas schoolchildren will be taught in social studies classes. To kick off the discussion, hundreds of Texans are expected... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756228/south-texas-chisme-batsh-t-crazies-on-sboe-pushing-the-propaganda Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:56:08 -0800 00:06:49 : WFTS is still carrying Texas-Kansas, inexplicably. Texas up 44-20, Arizona and Oregon are in a close one, Cats up 24-21. Go figure. 00:26:26 : Arizona is up 31-24 with 1:54 left in the 4th, Oregon has the ball near midfield. 00:32:37 : Looks like the ACC... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756386/november-22nd-oregon-arizona-from-saturday,-the-bucs,-jimmie-johnson,-and- Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:08 -0800 [See Also: KaufmanCountyO.com] This is an interesting agenda item for the Combine City Council Monday night: CITY OF COMBINE 123 Davis Road Combine, Texas 75159 972-476-1532 NOTICE AND AGENDA FOR SPECIAL CALLED CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, November 23,  2009, 7:30... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756245/the-ellis-county-observer-additional-security-at-combine-city-hall-this-we Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:08 -0800 Packing is taking precedence over football watching right now, which may not be a bad thing this season. Here's this week's action: Texas 51, Kansas 20 The Longhorns are on cruise control to the big BCS game. Too bad the competition in the confer... [...] http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756246/publiustx-weblog-big-12-wrap-week-12 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:08 -0800 In 2007, Texas voters authorized the State to issue up to $5 billion in general revenue bonds for transportation and highways. Last week, TxDOT approved $2 billion of these bond funds for non-tolled highway projects. Central Texas was the big winner, with nearly $1... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756252/the-collin-county-observer-collin-county-to-receive-18-million-in-state- Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:24:08 -0800 The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week's highlights from the blogs. TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756258/mcblogger-roundin-up-the-tpa Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:24:08 -0800 Normal 1 340 1939 The T. E. Bradberry Home School 16 3 2381 11.1282 The Central Texas Republican Assembly November 22, 2009 For Immediate Release Contact Tim Bradberry 512-507-2823 dadofping@sbcglobal.net (Travis County, Texas) – Saturday night, the United States... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756262/the-travis-monitor-ctra-calls-for-opposition-to-senate-healthcare-bill Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:08 -0800 laverrue/flickr Conservatives can sleep soundly knowing the fight for gay marriage is not returning to Texas shores—at least not entirely. The only Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, Barbara Radnofsky , says Texans were so eager to ban gay... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756173/whoops-did-texas-ban-all-marriages- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:08 -0800 Image from The Get Up Kids’ MySpace The Get Up Kids, Kevin Devine, & Mansions Wednesday, November 18 Emos ( 603 Red River St ) 9 p.m. | Outside | $18 [ info ] | [ tickets ] Kansas City’s The Get Up Kids formed in 1995 and fast became an integral part of... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756193/preview-the-get-up-kids-emo-s-wednesday- Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:52:08 -0800 AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo GonzalezArmy Sgt. Ken Thomas, takes pictures of the fallen soldier memorials for those killed in Thursday's Fort Hood shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Stepping for the first time into the role... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752644/obama-salutes-fort-hood-victims,-condemns-murders Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:08 -0800 Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Ritchie today had strong words for State Rep. Chuck Hopson (D-Jacksonville) who announced he is joining the Republican Party. From Richie’s statement: “Make no mistake… as a rural Democratic elected official who served... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756206/richie-hopson-joins-party-that-has-abandoned-texas Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:04:08 -0800 Capitol Annex has learned that State Rep. Chuck Hopson (D-Jacksonville) is switching parties later today. Via QR: Saying that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress do not reflect the concerns and conservative values of his district, State Representative Chuck... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756207/hopson-switching-parties-updated- Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:08 -0800 Texas Democrats have struggled in recent years winning statewide office. In the halcyon days, the party had money, recognizable names and a coordinated campaign (i.e. a party slate of candidates). With that in mind, singer/writer Kinky Friedman and Austin celebrity... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751690/trail-blazers-kinky-katz-can-a-bumpersticker-be-far-behind- Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:31:08 -0700 Time for a Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Roundup. Human tragedies are mounting in the Barnett Shale as study after study shows high levels of toxins in the air. The only ones who can't seem to find anything wrong are the regulators. TXsharon asks, "Will the EPA... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751699/m-e-a-n-r-a-c-h-e-l-tpa-weekly-roundup Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:53:08 -0700 Star Telegram says "activist" . Or as we like to say around these parts "bat shit crazy". The Texas GOP elected Cathie Adams the new chair of its state party here in Texas in a 36-25 vote of their executive committee. You may remember Cathie as the head of [...] http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751706/the-texas-cloverleaf-texas-gop-picks-wingnut-to-lead-state-party Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:18:08 -0700 The NY Times has a long article on the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. The articles focus is on the patience and the doctors who are trying to cope with long adds of survival. What is not said is in coutries with the single payer system [...] http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751715/prairiepundit-where-you-go-if-you-have-cancer-it-is-texas-not-canada-or-t Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:42:08 -0700 Calvin Tillman is Mayor of DISH, TX, the community where Barnett Shale drilling development has caused "Amazing and very high levels" of toxics found in the ambient air study. The mayor sent out the following email tonight:FYI we have a resident of DISH who went and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751727/bluedaze-barnett-shale-victim-dish,-tx-resident-tested-positive-for-carb Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:03:08 -0700