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(Community Matters) good call, Mayor. I’d like to see a turn around specialist’s audit of Austin Energy’s operations. I like that we own our utility, and would like confirmation that it’s run mean & lean before agreeing to assumptions that we’ve got to raise rates

(Community Matters) Congrats to our niece, Hannah Tomlinson, who was named to Oklahoma’s All-State Choir for the third year in a row. We flew up for Saturday’s Jazz Choir concert – a great weekend with the family

(Community Matters) My husband and his chiropractor have decided that he needs to exercise his right brain motor skills more to equalize his body – they say we all favor one side of our musculature over the other and that as we age the implications become more pronounced. So, Steven is teaching himself to write left handed. I am married to one of the most disciplined men I’ve ever met – not rigid thank gosh, but disciplined. Very lucky me

(Community Matters) New Yorker article on our dear friend Principessa Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi and the Roman family. Surprised they failed to mention she’s a Harvard Business School graduate.

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Happy 13th Birthday, Nico

admittedly this photo of our godson is a bit old (his 4th birthday) but one of my favorites

(Community Matters) They say wearing Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova’s (Tsar Nicholas II‘s wife) necklace brings good luck. I wore it through most of dinner so am looking forward to this.

Steven and I had dinner last night with our neighbors Rob Moshein & Bob Atchison, their guest of honor from San Francisco, Albert Bartridge and Graham Schmidt, the artistic director of Austin’s Russian Theater company, Breaking String Theatre Company.

(Community Matters) Love this photo collection of black male couples

Hat Tip: Towleroad

(Community Matters) I don’t consider it partisan to note that Bain Capital bought Clear Chanel Communications which syndicated Rush Limbaugh’s show. Of course Rush is now slamming candidates for attacking Bain Capital or other leveraged buyout firms.

“That is indefensible!” he fumed. “It’s absurd … this is the language of leftists! This is the way Fidel Castro thinks, or says he thinks.”

evidently Clear Channel is no longer his syndication partner, according to Mr. Limbaugh’s most recent statements

(Community Matters) I read 7 spy novels last month, this was the scene in one.

(Community Matters) A neighbor sent a report on Monday’s community meeting for Heritage and NUNA about the murder:

Dear Neighbors:

The community meeting at First English on Monday had at least 250 people in attendance. It was a packed, standing room only gathering in the church cafeteria. NUNA was invited by Heritage NA to attend and participate in
that meeting.

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(Community Matters) Congratulations to our dear friend Jim Arth who’s been appointed Associate Judge by Travis County’s state district judges. Judge Arth will hear mostly family law cases (as well as some property tax suits)

(Community Matters) This is gonna be a really strange year for us. Of all years to abstain from political involvement, I didn’t enter December imagining it might be 2012. This morning, I resigned from President Obama’s National Finance Committee and as co-chair of his LGBT Leadership Council.

As a result of my new position as board president & ceo for Marfa Public Radio and West Texas Public Radio (Midland/Odessa), I’ve agreed to refrain from political endorsements, fundraising and giving. Steven has agreed to abide by the rules as if our marriage was legally recognized.

I’m gonna do my best to refrain from partisan speak & even thought going forward – in my blog, on Facebook and in person. This may take some retraining.