Daily Archives: 06/20/2008

(Community Matters) I bet lots of others have already seen this. I hadn’t.

(Community Matters) Reading the blogosphere, pit in my stomach. My enthusiasm for the ticket plunges at the prospect of Sam Nunn as a running mate. Doesn’t appear any more likely now than months ago when first floated, just that the reality of a pick is more certain and the possibility remains.

My Jewish friends should imagine an anti-Semitic joining the ticket to understand my feelings. My other female friends should imagine Clayton Williams.

Shortly after 1992, I came to the realization that my baseline was a candidate who wouldn’t threaten my civil liberties – the right to pursue employment, housing, medical services, equal protections under the law – even before I could embrace their support for health care, a sound economy, national security, education and so forth.

(Community Matters) from Kirk Watson’s weekly message:

It’s extraordinary, and aggravating, that these life-saving institutions [MD Anderson and UTMB] are trying to get just to where they were a few years back. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only area in which Texas’ legislative leadership has fallen behind.

The leadership has starved education funding and forced school district after school district to raise property taxes to make up for it.

It’s refused to fund universities, but chastised those who raise tuition so the quality of education doesn’t suffer.

It’s allowed roads to deteriorate and traffic to increase, diverting money from transportation and trumpeting privatization.

And it’s turned its back on nearly a billion dollars in federal funding for children’s health insurance, leaving Texas with the terrible standing as the state with the most uninsured kids.

It’s incomprehensible to me that our generation – which has prospered so much from the investments of our parents and grandparents – has so stubbornly refused to take steps that would ensure opportunity for our children and grandchildren.

(Community Matters) The Marfa production of Wallace Shawn’s play, Our Late Night has been rescheduled. It was to premiere at the Goode-Crowley Theatre over the July 4th weekend. Tim Crowley – who was performing – is on crutches after a horse riding accident. Chinati Foundation’s associate director, Rob Weiner is directing. Steven and I still headed to Marfa, just now have an open Friday night.