Category: Politics and Elections

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON RECOGNIZES HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WEEK

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON RECOGNIZES HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WEEK

Washington, DC – (Thursday, September 13, 2007) – Congresswoman EddieBernice Johnson issued the following statement today in recognition ofNational Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.  A long-time supporter of our nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Congresswoman Johnson introduced H. Res. 135, a Resolution to recognize HBCU week, in conjunction...

Kenneth Foster scheduled to be executed this week, family and others wait for Perry’s decision on clemency

Kenneth Foster scheduled to be executed this week, family and others wait for Perry’s decision on clemency

              Last week I came across the plight of Kenneth Foster, a man on Texas' Death Row for a crime that was committed in his presence.  Eddie Griffin (visit Eddie's blog here), has been keeping me up to speed on efforts to stop  Kenneth's execution which...

Governor Rick Perry to host the United Negro College Fund’s ‘North Texas Governor’s Luncheon’

Governor Rick Perry to host the United Negro College Fund’s ‘North Texas Governor’s Luncheon’

According to the UNCF website and Pegasus News, Texas Governor Rick Perry will keynote the United Negro College Fund's (UNCF), "Annual North Texas Governor's Luncheon" on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.  The luncheon will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at DFW Airport. This event is a first-time partnership between...

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON TO HOST REFUGEE DAY WORKSHOP

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON TO HOST REFUGEE DAY WORKSHOP

Washington, DC – (Wednesday, August 15, 2007)  Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced that she will host a Refugee Day Workshop, the first of its kind in North Texas, on Saturday, August 18th . "In the last few years, the Dallas area has taken in an increasing number of refugees...

Sen. Royce West and John Wiley Price to host Town Hall Meeting

Sen. Royce West and John Wiley Price to host Town Hall Meeting

                        State Senator Royce West and Dallas County Commissioner Wiley Price are teaming up to host a Town Hall Discussion focusing on issues specific to the South Side.  The meeting is called What's on The Agenda? and billed as "A...

Drug Houses demolished in Oak Cliff

Drug Houses demolished in Oak Cliff

Mike Davis at Dallas Progress posts a great story of city government doing actually doing something for the public good.  On Saturday morning, Mayor Tom Leppert, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, Sheriff Lupe Valdez and others held a press conference during a drug house demolition in the 2500 block of...

District Attorney Craig Watkins’ Response to Dallas Morning News Editorial about Budget Request

District Attorney Craig Watkins’ Response to Dallas Morning News Editorial about Budget Request

Below is an opinion editorial that Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins wrote in response to a recent editorial in the Dallas Morning News.   In response to the editorial, “One, Two, 68, 483: County’s wishful budgeting doesn’t add up,” published in the Dallas Morning News on August 3, 2007,...

Dallas South Interviews City Councilwoman Angela Hunt

Dallas South Interviews City Councilwoman Angela Hunt

Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt scored a major political victory when she and TrinityVote secured over 80,000 signatures to force a referendum to alter the tollroad portion of the Trinity River project.  Dallas City Secretary Deborah Watkins certified the signatures, and a November vote will allow Dallas voters decide the...

Tom Leppert seems at home at Friendship-West

Tom Leppert seems at home at Friendship-West

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and his wife worshiped with Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III and members of Friendship-West Baptist Church at the 8:00 a.m. service on Sunday.  This is really not news but I have a personal reason for this particular post.  I have lambasted politicians on this website for...

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON STANDS UP FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH COVERAGE, PROTECTS SENIORS

CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON STANDS UP FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH COVERAGE, PROTECTS SENIORS

Washington, D.C. (August 1, 2007)  Today, with Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's support, the House approved a bill renewing the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and reforming Medicare. CHIP provides grant money to states to provide health insurance for children whose families make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The...