We’re still waiting for the SCOTUS ruling on the Affordable Care Act. Here’s some music to listen to while we sit in the waiting room reading back issues of Cosmo and Sports Illustrated. 1. The Doctor’s Gonna Cut Ya – Asylum Street Spankers 2. Rasputin’s HMO – Austin Lounge Lizards 3. Doctor’s Orders – Carol [...]
Posts on ‘June 22nd, 2012’
Culberson up to his old tricks
You almost have to admire the single minded focus on doing something only he and a few other people really want to do. For the first time in his long-running dispute with Houston Metro, Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, has managed to insert language into a $51.6 billion spending package that could block federal funding to [...]
STAAR pushback
The House Public Ed committee gets an earful. Members of the House Public Education Committee on Tuesday questioned why the first batch of students who took the end-of-course exams scored so poorly. For example, 55 percent of ninth-graders met the minimum passing standard on the English writing test, and only 3 percent hit the college [...]
Bye-bye, BCS
Some sort of playoff system is on its way. The expected became a reality Wednesday as college football’s leaders announced that they will move forward with a four-team seeded playoff to decide the sport’s champion starting in 2014. The decision effectively ends the controversial and polarizing Bowl Championship Series system, which began in 1998 as [...]
There will still be international flights at IAH
In fact, soon there will be a new airline and a new destination at IAH. Turkish Airlines plans to start non-stop flights between Bush Intercontinental Airport and Istanbul next year, the Houston Airport System announced in a press release. The announcement comes three weeks after Council approved an expansion of Hobby Airport to accommodate plans [...]