After months of wrangling, and highlighted by several days of acrimonious debate and political stupidity, the Texas State Board of Education passed a new set of curriculum standards yesterday.
There are… um… some problems.
Sigh…
Since Adorable Child will be entering high school next year, our impending relocation out of Texas seems all the more timely.
Oh dear. Coming right on the heels of yesterday’s post about trying to run against success, this is not good news for Bill White and his planned campaign for governor.
The local unemployment rate shot up to 8.8 percent in January, the Texas Workforce Commission reported this morning. The rate was 8.2 percent in December.
Meanwhile, the […]
There’s lots of commentary out this morning about incumbent Rick Perry’s win over Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Texas GOP gubernatorial primary.
The general take-away seems to be that Governor Perry benefited from (as Jonathan Martin puts it at the Politico) “an anti-Washington message in an already volatile political environment”.
I really don’t think so, folks — […]
In 2000 — nearly a decade ago now — Polimom and Adorable Child returned to the Houston area.
We came with nothing.
A newly-single mom, I’d left my beloved tiny village in upstate New York; there simply were no jobs in my field in the area. So I headed south, where I hoped that my parents could […]
Started, and ended, early. Sure was pretty while it lasted, though.
My flowers, unfortunately, were NOT impressed.
On the upside, the kids got out early, when the snow was heaviest, and made snow angels.
Life is good!
Hahahaha!!!! That’s the weather report for us today — in Katy, Texas, of all places!!!
And best of all, it started to snow on us already as I drove Adorable Child to school this morning! Nothing funnier than seeing a bunch of usually self-conscious Texas teens out in front of a junior high school, trying to […]