Category Archives: Austin

Cronyism Lowering the Bar at UT Law

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Lawrence Person

For an example of how the cronyism scandal Wallace Hall uncovered is harming the University of Texas, take a look at UT’s law school. According to Erik Telford: “Only 59 percent of its graduates passed the most recent Texas Bar … Continue reading →

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Administrative Note: Blog Back Up

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Lawrence Person

This week I’ve been having some fairly heinous performance issues with the blog, as in “takes 30 second to a minute to load the dashboard” heinous. After some song and dance from BlueHost support (“CPU throttling! Chinese hackers!”), they took … Continue reading →

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Texas House Transparency Committee Votes in Secret to Impeach Wallace Hall

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Lawrence Person

The Texas House Transparency Committee voted to impeach University of Texas regent Wallace Hall. Hall’s case will go to the full Texas House of Representatives. If a majority of the members of the House approve of the case’s merits, it … Continue reading →

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Hope You Didn’t Want To Do Anything in Downtown Austin This Week

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Lawrence Person

This week, UT’s LBJ Presidential Library is having a three-day Civil Rights Summit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For this they’ve managed to snag four different past and present U.S. Presidents: … Continue reading →

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Vote Today!

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Lawrence Person

It’s primary election day in Texas. Find your voting statewide place here. A list of Williamson County polling places can be found here. A list of Travis County polling places can be found here. This winter storm is likely to … Continue reading →

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A Ridiculously Brief Williamson County Election Update

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Since I live in Williamson and have received a ton of flyers on local judicial races, I should probably get together some semi-coherent thoughts about the race and post them here. Fortunately, Holly Hansen has already done the heavy lifting. … Continue reading →

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Texas vs. California Update for February 11, 2014

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Meant to put this up at lunch, but Stuff. And Things. How California overprotects public employee union contracts. If the paper from Volokh the Younger is too heavy-sledding for non-lawyers, here’s a nice summary. CalPERS is demographically doomed. The people … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for February 10, 2014

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

These LinkSwarms tend to get pushed back to days when there’s not a big story jumping up and requiring my attention. It seems like the Olympics have created a bit of a news lull Democratic congressmen abandoning ObamaCare in droves. … Continue reading →

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Travis County Ending Gun Shows at the Expo Center?

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Lawrence Person

So it appears: Travis County won’t be hosting a gun show in its Exposition Center after this month, after county commissioners did not renew a lease for the controversial event. “Controversial” in the sense that “liberals don’t like it.” Saxet … Continue reading →

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Blogroll Cleaning

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Lawrence Person

It’s a new year, so here are a few long-overdue administrative updates to the blogroll. Added Texas Conservative Republican News. Removed Urban Grounds, since Robbie Cooper hung up his blogging gloves. Removed Matt S. Dowling, because one post in the … Continue reading →

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