Texas

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Laporte, Texas is a nice place. It's small and rural. There are a lot of nice people there and I've got family there. Sometimes those two things are entirely unrelated, but I don't wish them the kind of harm that our state government seems

I don't see enough people getting disgusted with Republicans. Sure, all politicians are creepy opportunists who are always in the center of corruption, exploiting loopholes wherever they can. It's a full-time job. I probably don't see enough because this is a red state and

A more conservative Texas guarantees that oil, gas, real estate, and insurance will be writing Texas legislation. A more conservative Texas guarantees to kick the legislative can down the road; the payday vampires and the quality of our environment will be decided by municipal governments.

One of them was a 12 year old girl who was carrying some boxes of soda cans she was looking forward to sell out of the apartment. Apartment sodas are 75 cents. She's selling them for 50. I wasn't about to ask her how much the