Tag / texas
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Deconstructing the Harvey Experience
I’ll start with a few statistics. Over the course of six days from August 24th to the 30th, Hurricane Harvey dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of water onto the area from the tip of Texas to Louisiana. As observed by Vox, that’s approximately 1 million gallons of water for every inhabitant of the state…
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Texas vs. Texas: The Senate That Won’t Stop
Dallas is a divided city. It was divided before President Trump was elected. It was divided before President Obama was elected. It was divided before President Kennedy was assassinated. Dallas is a divided city—that much is obvious. Texas, as a whole, is less fractured. In the sweltering red heat of Republican dominance, only a few…
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Texas, Back-Alley Abortions, and Other Developments in the “War on Women”
BY BILLIE MANDELBAUM In 2011, there were 44 facilities in Texas where abortions were performed. Today, only 24 facilities remain. This decline stems from stringent regulations put in place by Texas House Bill 2, which was signed into law last year by Governor Rick Perry. The legislation requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges…
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Is Texas Finally Feeling Blue?
BY ALEX BEAULIEU No one said it was possible. No one believed anyone could accomplish such a feat. Even the rather liberal New York Times declared that, “turning Texas blue – or even purple – is going to be a lot harder than most folks imagine.” But has the time finally arrived? Can one state…
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Is Everything Bluer in Texas?
BY KEVIN DEUTSCH By some accounts, Texas is slipping away from the Republican Party. If it is, it’s a big deal. Texas now carries 38 electoral votes, and for the first time since Bill Clinton decided to write the state off in 1992, the Democrats see the votes as potentially up for grabs. This is…
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Perry’s Job Record
The first Republican primary debate this year started with a catfight between Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney over their respective job creation records. The exchange not only raised the entertainment value of the debate, but also one important question: is Perry’s record as strong as it seems? Perry seems to…
