TPA Roundup, Week of 10/8/07

Every Tuesday, we'll be featuring blogs from the Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Blog Roundup, where notable Texas progressive blogs choose their favorite articles to be represented. This week's round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.

What's really going on in Irving? Xanthippas at Three Wise Men notes there's more going on in the immigration crackdown than possible profiling and arrests.

Criticism of Hillary Clinton's laugh is no laughing matter, so says PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.

Might be time for a bit of horsetrading on the floor of the Senate, and one of Texas Kaos' regular diarists, Fake Consultant, has a bit of advice on the subject for Majority Leader Harry Reid in On Larry Craig, And Filibusters or Wanna Make a Trade?

Human rights advocates cheered the Williamson County Commission's vote to sever ties with the operator of the T. Don Hutto holding facility for undocumented immigrants, but Eye On Williamson's wcnews wonders if a battle within the Republican Party over the county's share of the profits may have driven their decision.

McBlogger at McBlogger speculates as to the reasons that Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Sharon Keller needed to get out of work at 5 on Sept. 25th.

Vince at Capitol Annex tells us about the Texas Conservative Coalition's new Election Integrity Task Force, its new Chairwoman and its likely recommendations.

Peter at B and B writes about the quixotic attempts by a group of environmentally-conscious Republicans to get their chosen political party to care about conservation and stewardship: Republicans for Environmental Protection, all 70 of them, meet in San Antonio.

Off the Kuff looks at the ongoing dispute between the Harris County Appraisal District and the State Comptroller over how commercial properties are taxed.

Trinity Trickey strikes again at The Texas Cloverleaf. This time pro toll road literature features the war on trees and the fight against Angela Hunt by the powers that be. Only in Dallas.

Hal at Half Empty counted a Lucky Seven congressional candidates that want to run against Nick Lampson in Texas CD 22. He ROFLs and LMAOs.

TXsharon says, "You suck, AT&T" and she can only say that because she doesn't use AT&T. Over at Bluedaze she tells why, if you use AT&T for your Internets, you can't say they suck.

Also be sure to visit Dos Centavos, South Texas Chisme, Blue 19th, Easter Lemming, The Caucus Blog, Whosplayin, and Para Justicia y Libertad.