Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle went after Rick Perry for last week saying dropout rates in Texas aren’t that bad. Perry claimed they were around 10% and Falkenberg’s article claimed they were really upwards of 30% and that Perry’s claim was testing the already loose truth standards in gubernatorial campaigns.

I didn’t post about this earlier because, come on, it’s not exactly an earth-shattering revelation.

Yesterday Rick Perry advocated abandoning textbooks in favor of computer technology.

With Texas lawmakers being told to prepare for a budget shortfall of up to $15 billion, surely it’s time for a tax hike, right? Many on the left are starting the drumbeat for higher taxes and even more spending. They are addicted to your money and big government. But chief senate budget writer, Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden, isn’t playing their game.

Having grown up in a Latino family on the border, I have always been around people who, more often than not, supported Democrats for any office. I even interned for Congressman Solomon Ortiz (D, TX-27)–a fact that I’m hesitant to mention for idealogical reasons, but in the end it was a great learning experience for me.

A review of federal stimulus spending on solar energy projects in Texas finds it will be up to a century before the alleged “savings” from this so-called green technology covers what the taxpayers’ paid for installation. That’s assuming solar panels installed at places like a library in Bedford, Austin’s community college, and the Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, last that long.

When I first heard of State Senator Leticia Van de Putte’s comments regarding Latinos and the GOP, my immediate instinct was to call her out on her apparent ignorance. After all, Francisco Canseco and Bill Flores made it in to runoffs in for their respective Republican congressional races.

I figure, since I spent a lot of time dogging on Proposition 4 (the constitutional amendment last November, not the Republican primary ballot prop), readers might be interested to know that some universities have announced strategies for how they will attract the money that Proposition 4 promised – a part of a $500 million pie approved by voters last November.

Predictions are that the Texas 2011 legislative session is going be ugly. Redistricting will be at the forefront of that ugliness despite comments from the DOJ that politics will be removed from the process. Equally as impotent are the claims that a moderate Speaker will be able to keep things civil.