Results tagged “statesenate”

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic...

Mayor Bill White will be in Austin this afternoon to testify before the State Senate Natural Resources Committee considering a bill that would strip cities of their ability to create ordinances that protect air quality. The bill, SB 1317 was authored by State Sen. Mike Jackson, a Republican from LaPorte (surprised?), and its captions lets us know that it is "relating to prohibiting a municipality from enacting regulations on air pollution that apply outside its...

It's no secret that Texans like their guns — why, Houstonist is packing heat right this second, because hey, you just never know. Even so, businesses can (and do) prevent people from carrying concealed weapons into their buildings, and now Houston-based ConocoPhillips is trying to get guns barred from parking lots, too. Drunks getting arrested in bars, guns getting banned from parking lots — what next? They won't let us park our horses in the median? Oh, wait.