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Nukes move north: Fireworks slated for Glen Rose Expo

Greg Harman

CPS Energy has decided to forgo its own little nuclear renaissance (until at least, say, the fall, if that’s still good with you), but that hasn’t stopped the greater world from ambling along into the void.

A scoping meeting today will take stock of public attitudes in North Texas regarding plans by Luminant, subsidiary of the goliath formerly known as TXU (um, that’d be the titillatingly titled Energy Future Holdings, to you swab), to double the size of Comanche Peak.

If turnout is marginal at t ...

On the Street: The Tunnels of Gaza, A View From the Valley, A Completely Incomplete Year in Review, and Other Things

“And another one bites the dust.”

Letters (to the On the Street Penthouse Suite)

Before we get into last year, here are the last of the letters that somehow found their way home.

#1 Self-titled

Local and international photographer Bryan Rindfuss wishes us well.

Happ ...

Live & Local preview: The Hawks (of Holy Rosary)

Happy 2009, everyone. Tonight we're kicking off 2009 with the parentheses-happy Hawks (of Holy Rosary) (who'll be playing their first acoustic show ever [they're ordinarily very much plugged-in]) at GIG on the Strip. The show is free and open to all ages. Marcus Rubio and the Gospel Choir of Pillows and Nick Krill lead singer and guitarist for the Wilmington, Delaware- based Spinto Band will also per ...

Caroline No

By Gilbert Garcia

CBS reporter Roger Mudd noted during his infamous 1979 interview special with Ted Kennedy that, off the campaign stump, the Massachusetts senator "can become stilted, elliptical, and at times appear as if he really doesn't want America to get to know him."

Couldn't the exact same words be applied to Teddy's niece, Caroline, as she makes an awkward public show of her desire to win appointment to the United States Senate?

It's easy to mock Caroline for her grating, habitual use of the expression "you know," a tic which she apparently used more than 200 times during a recent 30-minute interview. That verbal placeholder reminds us that, for all her celebrity, she's basically a neophyte at public speaking. But if verbal elegance was a Capito ...

Alamo Bowl Thriller is Heartbreaker for Northwestern

The 2008 Alamo Bowl didn't sell quite as many tickets as in recent years, as a fair number of empty seats were plainly obvious. But the game was easily one of the most thrilling contests of the 2008 bowl season so far, as the heavily favored Missouri Tigers managed to pull out a 30-23 overtime win over the determined but not quite good enough Northwestern Wildcats. The win gave Mizzou back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time in school history. The loss left Northwestern still in search of their first bowl win since the 1949 Rose Bowl.

Each team had a corner of rabid fans sitting by their respective bands, while the middle of the field seats seemed preoccupied by local fans who had less of a stake in the contest. Such are the dynamics of college bowl games. But everyone got the ...

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Unsettling Ornamentation

Letters (to the On the Street Penthouse Suite)

The creek hasn't completely dried up just yet. The trickles of the week...

#1 Bonnes fetes de fins d annee

From the local French community…

Bonjour a tous j espere que vous allez passer de bonne fetes de fins d anne ...

More on the suspicious death of Mike Connell

The mainstream media deserves a toxic lump of coal in their collective stocking this year for their atrocious lack of coverage regarding the suspicious death of Republican IT guru Mike Connell last weekend.

Connell died when his plane went down near the Canton/Akron airport in Ohio on Friday night. The indie media has been ablaze with stories about how circumstantial evidence overwhelmingly suggests that Connell’s plane was sabotaged in order to stop him from whistle blowing about vote fraud efforts by the Republican Party, particularly in regards to Ohio’s pivotal vote in the 2004 presidential election.

CBS finally ran a story yesterday, but CNN, the Washington Post and New York ...

Skeletons in Caterpillar's Closet

The Express-News reported last week on how Caterpillar Inc. has decided to build their new $170 million engine-manufacturing plant in nearby Seguin, which will employ more than 1,400 people.

“It's wonderful news,” Seguin Mayor Betty Ann Matthies said in the story. “By a large margin, it is the biggest incentive package we have ever put together. It's a boost for the whole region, San Marcos, New Braunfels — their work force will come from the whole area. It's big and I'm so proud to be a part of it.”

The story also reported that Gov. Rick Perry's office announced it's putting up $10 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund to sweeten the deal. “This investment in Caterpillar will not only create high-paying jobs for Texans, but will strengthen our state's overall economic ...

Global Warming solutions proposed … in Texas?

Beyond the smog... H-town: breeding ground for climate change action?

Greg Harman

What the world knows about Texas:

J.R. Ewing was one ruthless son of a bitch.

George Jr. can bob and weave with the best of ‘em.

and Houston is where Global Warming gets made.

Well, chalk another one up for Energy City: Houston is now also where Global Warming solutions are being proffered, thanks to legislation filed by Greg Harman

Even if humankind came down sick all of a sudden and fell down dead, so much of what we have built would live on after us. At least for a few years.

You’re lovely wood frame home at the corked end of that traffic-limiting cul-de-sac would be overrun and overgrown in just a few decades. Time and the elements would completely wash it away within 500 years.

Here’s what it would look like as it is overtaken by roaches, rats, and other natural processes, courtesy of the website for the book The World Without Us:

GOP IT consultant who planned to spill beans is killed in shady plane crash

From the Current's "National Affairs" desk comes the sickening type of news we can probably expect to see more of as the Bush/Cheney regime exits the White House and attempts to cover the tracks of their many criminal misdeeds.

A GOP consultant who was apparently Karl Rove's right-hand IT guy was killed in a suspicious plane crash in Ohio this weekend. Circumstantial evidence seems to indicate that Mike Connell was the guy who could have revealed just how the GOP rigged the 2004 vote in Ohio to swing that election to Mr. Bush. Several stories about this are now making waves across the indie media news wires:

GOP consultant killed in plane crash was warned of sabotage: report