the weaker party

I'm asking my HCC 2306 students whether this trend might eventually come to Texas. - Click here for the article . On the surface, Thurs...

I received a few questions about Wilson's execution from my ACC 2306 classes. Wilson was "mentally retarded," which shoudl hav...

Was it related to voter fraud? - Click here for the article . 2. Cooping Others believe that Poe fell victim to a practice known as cooping...

From a conversation in one of my GOVT 2306 classes. - Waller County Elections Office Denies Rejecting Voter Registrations from Prairie View ...

More on variances in voter eligibility laws across the states. - Click here for the article . Restoration of Voting Rights for Felons It ha...

- Click here for the article . The federal government went to the Supreme Court today, requesting a halt to the depositions of two senior ...

This might help establish the difference between the two

- Click here for it . And here's the city council map The HCC Spring Branch campus is in District C Ellen Cohen represents it....

Worth a perusal. - Click here for it .

To address questions raised in class recently. From the NCSL: ELECTION COSTS: WHAT STATES PAY . Pinning down how much it costs to admini...

This may be the next state policy area to receive national attention. Just as there is a nationally defined uniform minimum drinking age, ...

A good look at funding in the state. Notice the percentages from local, state, and national sources. The article points to the over all decr...

- Click here for the article . The 2018 midterm elections are less than a month away, which means that in many states, voter registration ...

From the Texas Tribune: - A Texas yard sign depicted a GOP elephant with its trunk up a girl’s skirt. Police seized it .

For this week's 2305 written assignment for ACC, A story that combines federalism, checks and balances, and the equal protection clause....

For this week's written assignment for ACC's 2306 classes: A look at both bicameralism and checks and balances in Texas, along with ...

Some background on an issue covered in the textbook on Texas Government. - Click here for the article . - Complete page for sunset review...

- "Don't panic": Texas Education Agency sends instructions on police interaction curriculum . - Senate passes bill requiring s...

This site might help make sense of the concept of cooperative federalism. It has a map with links to the various projects funded by the nati...

This is what I'll be voting for or against in a few weeks. - Click here for it .

For perusal prior to election day - Brazoria County . - Fort Bend County . - Galveston County . - Harris County .

For 2306, a national response - not to Harvey, but to Ike. - Click here for the article . - Background: The Army Corp of Engineers . The Ar...

No news here. - Click for the article . This year’s election carries enormous political stakes, but if history is any guide, the vast major...

This should help explain why the conflict over the Kavanaugh appointment is so heated. - Click here for the article .

California is to Trump what Texas was to Obama. Background:  What Is Harm Reduction ? - Click here for the article . The idea: While in an...

Policy Diffusion California's New Marijuana Law Is a First But Likely Not the Last . California Becomes First State to End Cash-Bail Sy...

A look at the increasing influence of media company that owns a large number of television stations around the nation. Related items: Sincla...

Research seem to suggests it does not. Vox - Something is breaking American politics, but it's not social media . Pew Research Center: ...

We'll go over this chart in class, several times. - Click here for it . For more on turnout and election results in general, click on ...

This is an old report - 2013, I'll look for a newer version - but it'll give us a good look at the precise nature of the grants stat...

Covered in 2306 this morning. More conflict between Texas and the national government. - Click here for the article . . . . the U.S. govern...

Covered in 2305 this morning, this covers lots that we've hit on this semester. A few relevant links: - net neutrality . - FCC . - commo...

We covered this in 2306 earlier this week. Tricky territory given the looming election and past decisions by the Supreme Court. - Click here...

A brief description of the first internal conflict using national military force. - Click here for it .

For this week's written assignment for my GOVT 2306 ACC classes. The article describes how party primaries are impacting state politics....

For this week's writing assignment for my ACC GOVT 2305 students. Explain the following article to me. - Click here for the article . T...

Senate Republicans might have to compromise with Democrats next session. - Click here for the article . Republican lawmakers in the Texas...

- From Governing: Transit Advocates: Is the White House Purposefully Delaying Project Funds ? Transit advocates are becoming increasingly al...

For ACC 2305 students, this might be helpful for the 1000 word essay. - Click here for the article . We generally think of a person’s rac...

For my HCC GOVT 2306 student's written assignment. Tell me what's going on in this article. - Click here for it . Kentucky has h...

For GOVT 2305's weekly assignment. Tell me what's going on here: - Click here for the article . On one end of Pennsylvania Avenue t...

For this week's 2306 written assignment. Medicaid is the largest of the programs that fall under the category of "cooperative feder...

- 2017 Interim Legislative Charges: Hurricane Harvey Response . - Reaching the wrong conclusions after Hurricane Harvey

For additional info: Click here for it .

All from The Texas Tribune: -  Here's a look at who's interested in replacing Straus as House speaker . - Why Supreme Court Justic...

- The Cordova Rebellion . - The Cherokee War .

I'm watching the CNN documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and it points out her role in the first case which directly addressed gender dis...

Here's an example of policy diffusion: - Click here for the article . California is one signature away from committing to 100 percent cl...

- Trump-appointed judges are shifting the country’s most politically conservative circuit court further to the right . . . . Trump's app...

- Polling got Andrew Gillum’s victory in Florida very wrong. 8 experts on how that happened . Going into the Florida governor’s primaries ...

2306 students should use these for your 1000 word paper - Harris County voters pass historic $2.5 billion for flood control . - Harris Coun...

We went over this article in GOVT 2306. It mentions a variety of governing positions as well as several parts of the Texas Statutes, in addi...