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ReidRansom posted:Leave it in place as a symbolic thing? Challenge the state law? Iunno. Leaving in place unenforceable laws is bad policy, be they bans of fracing or gay sex. The way cities in Texas work, they're no legal ground for Denton to fight over. This is 100% the purview of the legislature to decide what cities can and cannot regulate.
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ReidRansom posted:Leave it in place as a symbolic thing? Challenge the state law? Iunno. They were being sued over the ban, even after it was invalidated by the Lege. Repealing renders the lawsuits moot (and prevents having to pay for legal/lawyer fees). Also (as noted at the end of the article) the unenforceable ban would have given the drillers a foot in the door to try and strip out other safety provisions Denton has with regard to buffer zones around drilling.
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Jesus Christ can this guy please just go away. Bill Powers is gone!quote:Here’s the situation: As a regent, Hall would be suing the institution that he is charged with overseeing. Hall's lawyer’s fees might – or might not –be paid by the institution he is suing. And the top legal representative of the state, Paxton, who is often charged with defending state agencies in lawsuits, would have publicly taken the side of the person who is suing the state. On top of that, Hall is a big financial supporter of the attorney general, donating more than $30,000 to Paxton’s campaigns in recent years. http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/16/ag-clears-path-regent-wallace-hall-sue-ut-system/
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ReidRansom posted:Leave it in place as a symbolic thing? Challenge the state law? Iunno. The problem with this are the pending lawsuits challenging the bans. These would have been expensive to defend, even symbolically. Repealing the ban, while admitting defeat, keeps their legal fees from growing. It will also likely keep the pro fracking attorneys from collecting fees if the city had decided to continue defending the ban symbolically. Ultimately this was wise move and should gain them more respect, not less. The opposite stance can be seen in the current Texas penal code, which I believe still criminalizes homosexuality, despite having been declared unconstitutional in 2002. The legislature of Texas refuses to pass a law repealing that statute.
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Badger of Basra posted:Jesus Christ can this guy please just go away. Bill Powers is gone! Such a loving quagmire. By the way where does everyone fall in the whole debacle about Bill Powers? Yay or Nay as far as his tenure and the board of regents?
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Jiro posted:Such a loving quagmire. By the way where does everyone fall in the whole debacle about Bill Powers? Yay or Nay as far as his tenure and the board of regents? I'm not happy about Shared Services, but in terms of his dealings with the BoR I think he was right and a lot of them (Hall especially) were wrong. He did help some people get into the law school but frankly I would have been more surprised if that wasn't going on. I wish it didn't but it happens literally everywhere so whatever I guess. It probably helps that I never wanted to go to law school so I don't really give a poo poo.
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I should know this but: What is Hall's deal?
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zoux posted:I should know this but: What is Hall's deal? I think somehow the University of Texas Austin collectively beat him up and took his lunch money as a kid. Part of the Perry appointees who just poo poo all over higher education in Texas*. He launched this quixotic quest to "clean things up" at UT Austin when there wasn't really that much to clean up, trying to kill a fly with a bazooka. He made a poo poo-ton of enemies in the system, at the university, and in the lege, and now it's just a bullheaded quest to "win" over those enemies. *EDIT: Funny enough, I was convinced that the terrible, terrible people Perry appointed to the UT Regents was just his being an Aggie and wanting to gently caress with "tu", but then I was talking to one of my dad's friends (who's an Aggie alumni and big booster) and he says that the same kind of thing happened to the A&M system under Perry as well. Whether Perry appointed these people intentionally to gently caress with the state's higher ed or just considered higher ed positions a dumping ground to drop political benefactors who weren't competent enough to be put anywhere else, we'll never know. e_angst fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Good news for freedom fries loving kids everywhere!quote:Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on Thursday restored the option for public schools to serve certain fried foods and soda by lifting a decade-old statewide ban on deep fryers and soda machines. Go fill yourself with soda and deep fried foods and be healthful children of Texas! Go!
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Childhood Obesity, Piled high.
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This is just feel good nonsense for some conservatives who want to stick it to Michelle Obama. Schools already removed their friers and even if they were willing to spend the money to put them back in there isn't much you can use them for and still meet the nutritional guidelines of the USDA's school lunch program.
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Shifty Pony posted:This is just feel good nonsense for some conservatives who want to stick it to Michelle Obama. Soda machines however, are often profit centers.
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Shifty Pony posted:This is just feel good nonsense for some conservatives who want to stick it to Michelle Obama. They might be able to put soda machines back in and get a revenue stream back. An absolutely tiny and insulting revenue stream, but schools are so under-funded they'll generally squeeze every penny they can.
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e_angst posted:I think somehow the University of Texas Austin collectively beat him up and took his lunch money as a kid. Part of the Perry appointees who just poo poo all over higher education in Texas*. He launched this quixotic quest to "clean things up" at UT Austin when there wasn't really that much to clean up, trying to kill a fly with a bazooka. He made a poo poo-ton of enemies in the system, at the university, and in the lege, and now it's just a bullheaded quest to "win" over those enemies. The first complete and in depth article I read about how Perry was trying to fundamentally change the entire system was an article in Texas Monthly, which I can't even find now but, it was in a Fall issue in 2012 or 2013. It went into detail about how Perry had bought into the idea that the University system should be more profit motivated; doing away with tenure and any school or program that didn't turn a profit. Texas Monthly has a ton of articles about this ongoing battle. The blog of Paul Burka, Burkablog, which is not pay walled like the magazine articles, are full of stories about this ongoing war; and it wasn't just aimed at UT Austin, it was every school in the system. edit: found it and it's not behind a pay wall, my mistake: Storming the Ivory Tower , October 2012 by Paul Burka and then a ton of articles since then in Texas Monthly radical meme fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 19, 2015 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Soda machines however, are often profit centers. School soda machines are also regulated by the USDA. See page 2 of this for the requirements
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radical meme posted:The first complete and in depth article I read about how Perry was trying to fundamentally change the entire system was an article in Texas Monthly, which I can't even find now but, it was in a Fall issue in 2012 or 2013. It went into detail about how Perry had bought into the idea that the University system should be more profit motivated; doing away with tenure and any school or program that didn't turn a profit. Texas Monthly has a ton of articles about this ongoing battle. The blog of Paul Burka, Burkablog, which is not pay walled like the magazine articles, are full of stories about this ongoing war; and it wasn't just aimed at UT Austin, it was every school in the system. If I remember correctly the big problem was that Powers didn't like these profit ideas.
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Shifty Pony posted:School soda machines are also regulated by the USDA. See page 2 of this for the requirements I'm pretty sure you can still sell soda in excess of USDA limits just only before or after school, correct?
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Badger of Basra posted:If I remember correctly the big problem was that Powers didn't like these profit ideas. Yeah, he actually believed that a university was supposed to educate and enlighten young people; loving communist.
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Now watch as Paxton embarrasses himself in the tradition of Karl Rove on election night
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Thermos H Christ posted:Now watch as Paxton embarrasses himself in the tradition of Karl Rove on election night Can't wait. 
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The Travis County Clerk's office has started issuing licenses. They will issue to anyone in line as of 6:30PM and will be open all next week including the weekend.
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Paxton Advises Counties Not To Rush Same Sex Marriage Licenses: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150625-paxton-advises-counties-not-to-rush-same-sex-marriage-licenses.ece quote:AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is warning county clerks in Texas not to be too quick in handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples if the U.S. Supreme Court declares a 50-state constitutional right for gays and lesbians to marry.
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Trabisnikof posted:I'm pretty sure you can still sell soda in excess of USDA limits just only before or after school, correct? Ah gently caress my highschool's policy of turning on the vending machines before and after school hours just clicked for me.
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Xarthor posted:Paxton Advises Counties Not To Rush Same Sex Marriage Licenses: Eat every cock in the world, Kenny
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Eat every cock in the world, Kenny Then again, there would be some nice schadenfreude in asking him to "give clarity" to the ruling, because there's absolutely no way it could be read as anything other than allowing marriage equality. Making him declare that officially would be a bit like making the bully you've just just stood up to (and now have in a choke-hold) cry uncle.
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For Austin people, word is that the Iron Bear on 8th Street has opened and will be selling 50 cent well drinks all day and night. Good luck, don't die.
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Apparently McClennan county is issuing marriage licenses too. Color me surprised.
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Thermos H Christ posted:For Austin people, word is that the Iron Bear on 8th Street has opened and will be selling 50 cent well drinks all day and night. Good luck, don't die.  So many potential horrible hangovers. 
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Badger of Basra posted:Apparently McClennan county is issuing marriage licenses too. Color me surprised. Yeah, this really surprised me as someone who grew up in Waco. Though perhaps things have changed quite a bit in the 12 years I've lived outside of Texas, most of the comments on the Waco-Trib's facebook page were supportive, and those that weren't were getting called out.
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I haven't seen Paxton or Abbott actually order anyone to ignore the gay marriage ruling. They seem to be saying, "Well, you county clerks can take the heat if you want to," which is just a total cop out way of backing down. It won't take long before a clerk faces a civil-rights lawsuit.
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Crosspost from the gay marriage thread: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150626-interactive-map-how-texas-counties-are-handling-same-sex-marriage-licenses.ece  All the counties in E: Fixed the colors 
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fade5 posted:Crosspost from the gay marriage thread: You mean yellow and red are cowards. Gray is "unknown" which means no info.
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I'm surprised that our idiot county clerk Kara Sands started issuing marriage licenses in Nueces County. But then again, I guess most people realize that the writing is on the wall at this point.
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blackguy32 posted:I'm surprised that our idiot county clerk Kara Sands started issuing marriage licenses in Nueces County. But then again, I guess most people realize that the writing is on the wall at this point. Yeah, a couple of days ago she said she was going to wait on word from the AG. We have a lawsuit.
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Hays County is issuing gay marriage licenses, so chalk another one up for blue (it's grey on the map). Also the wedding industry is big up here in the Hill Country so this will probably be a bit of a boom.
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enraged_camel posted:You mean yellow and red are cowards.  Sheng-ji Yang posted:Hays County is issuing gay marriage licenses, so chalk another one up for blue (it's grey on the map). Also the wedding industry is big up here in the Hill Country so this will probably be a bit of a boom.
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Wichita County also said they'd issue licenses starting Monday. (It's yellow on the map.)
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