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METRO | Risky business in Central Texas: The toll road bond gamble
Wall Street won’t insure the new CTRMA toll road debt at an affordable cost because of its high risk. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 14, 2015 AUSTIN — The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, or CTRMA, … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Growth, Bond Debt, Central Texas, CTRMA, Metro, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Toll Roads, Transportation Politics
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METRO | Is cheaper driving here to stay?
Gasoline may stay cheap until we burn through the current market glut in perhaps a year. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 14, 2015 [This article was written as a companion piece to Roger Baker’s Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Fracking, Metro, Oil Prices, Peak Driving, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Texas Shale, Transportation
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Here and there: Bernie Sanders and
Jeremy Corbyn
The British press laughed off Labour’s Corbyn, just as pundits here have deemed Sanders ‘unelectable.’ By Debra Keefer Ramage | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2015 UPDATE: Socialist Jeremy Corbyn, the “loony leftist” assumed by his detractors to be … Continue reading
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Blasts from the past in Buenos Aires
Omnipresence of Beatles offers counterpoint to hall of horrors at Museum of Memory and Human Rights. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | September 9, 2015 QUITO, Ecuador — On a visit to Buenos Aires last month, it took … Continue reading
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TELEVISION | ‘Whitechapel’ is a harrowing Brit cop series inspired by notorious historical crimes
Copycat killers test the mettle of Brit thesps Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis & quirky Steve Pemberton. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | September 6, 2015 [In his Rag Blog column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Detective Series, Murder Mysteries, Rag Bloggers, Whitechapel
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METRO | Don Quixote’s Bouldin Creek walkabout
Jim stood blocking the demolition for more than two hours before the police came, cuffed him, and took him to the county jail. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2015 AUSTIN — The enemy wasn’t quite … Continue reading
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BOOKS | ‘Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary’
Margaret Randall, bringing a poet’s voice to her work, gives human dimensions to the heroes of the Cuban revolution. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 1, 2015 Leer este artículo en español Listen to the Rag Radio … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Books, Casa de las Americas, Che Guevara, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Haydee Santamaria, Margaret Randall, Rag Bloggers, Venceremos Brigade
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Imperialism, war, and/or diplomacy: Where should the peace movement stand on Iran?
Any foreign policy initiative that reduces the possibility of war, and arguments about its necessity, must be supported. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | August 31, 2015 Not every conflict was averted, but the world avoided nuclear catastrophe, … Continue reading
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METRO | Race and police in Austin
Hundreds of concerned citizens gathered and directed questions about police violence to Mayor Adler and the Austin Police Department. Video filmed and posted to YouTube by Travis County Democratic Party volunteer Robert Sheldon. This is the first of five parts. … Continue reading
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IDEAS | The anti-realist vegetarian
Once you realize the socially constructed nature of morality, you get to choose whether or not to buy into it. By Bill Meacham | The Rag Blog | August 25, 2015 I venture to guess that most people are moral … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Meacham, Ideas, Moral Anti-Realism, Moral Realism, Morality, Philosophy, Rag Bloggers, Vegetarianism
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Violence, racism, and fundamentally changing
the United States
My specific proposal is to include explicit curriculum in our schools to teach the truth of our past. Seventy-seven years ago, civil rights activist and poet Langston Hughes wrote his chilling poem “Kids Who Die” to illuminate the horrors of … Continue reading
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TELEVISION | Two excellent ‘Wallander’ series come from Sweden and the UK
Netflix has two crisp, smart (different) cop series from Swedish novelist Henning Mankell, with the Brit version starring the great Kenneth Branagh. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | August 18, 2015 [In his Rag Blog column, Alan Waldman … Continue reading
