Photo by red clover on flickrIt seems State Representative Borris Miles might want to get his temper in check after his behavior at party in Houston landed him in hot water this past weekend. Miles, 42, is being sued for a laundry list of items after witnesses claim he crashed a holiday party, yelled obscenities, brandished a gun and got his snog on with another man's wife. Oh, and in addition to compensatory and punitive......

State Representative Veronica Gonzales, D-McAllen, is spearheading an effort to help cancer patients looking for a bone marrow transplant. Today, the First Annual Capitol Bone Marrow Registration Drive will take place in the Legislative Conference Room, affording Austinites an opportunity to enter into the National Marrow Donor Registry by giving a quick saliva cheek swab and filling out a brief registration form. The normal $52 registration fee has been waived, thanks to a separate statewide......

*image borrowed from www.trilug.org If you're seeing plenty of those Ben Bentzin and Donna Howard signs littering your neighbors' lawns, quit stealing them. The election will be over soon enough. Yesterday began the early voting period for the run-off election for State Representative of District 48. Back in January, Donna Howard came close to winning the majority by a .5% margin. Ben Bentzin came in a close second with 38% of the votes. Early......

From SavePlayers.com The University of Texas at Austin is intending on purchasing Player's and replacing it with a parking garage. Across the street, UT is purchasing the stripmall that includes IT Copy and Radio Shack. Apparently, we really need a hotel there. IT Copy or Radio Shack- we care not about. The hotel could be a great thing for the campus. However, once they try to take away a Player's Combo with cheese and......

Somewhere in Texas there's a $324 million goldmine hidden inside a nondescript warehouse. The less sensational bit is that this small fortune is actually in the form of educational textbooks - hundreds upon thousands of texts covering fine arts, foreign languages, music, and health. Way back in 2002, the State Board of Education requested and received authorization from the State House of Representatives and Senate to acquire desperately needed textbooks to replace the weathered,......