Author Archive for Charles Kuffner



Filing news: Ronnie Earle retires

I was going to say it was a slow week in candidate filings until this happened. Travis County District Attorney…

Texan of the Year for 2007

[Today, the Texas Progressive Alliance honors its 2007 Texan of the Year. This year, the Alliance elected to recognize a…

Car crash into the Hot Bagel Shop

Geez. I was there this morning for breakfast, maybe two hours before this happened. A popular Montrose-area bagel shop was…

Clemens and Bonds

Richard Justice makes a point that, on its surface at least, is eminently sensible. Here’s the thing. If you had…

Looking forward to 2008: Jeff Balke

(Note: I have asked a variety of people to submit an essay to me to be posted during the month…

The successful Caucus

The Houston GLBT Political Caucus had a pretty good election season this year. Here’s the press release they sent out…

Since State Rep. Phil King has once again raised the awful idea of massively hiking sales taxes in order to…

Duncanville sex club lawsuit

You may recall that the city of Duncanville recently decided to git tuff on swingers. Well, the swingers are now…

HHSC Employee back in the blogging saddle

I got word of this last week but didn’t get a chance to mention it - Ramblings of an HHSC…

TPA Gold Stars: Mario Gallegos

[This year, in addition to recognizing its Texan of the Year (which will come this Friday), the Texas Progressive Alliance…