operation crackdown

The article that I have chosen is about the demolition of private houses and sheds. The project is called “operation crackdown” in which the city can decide whether or not to tear down structures that seem to be an eye sore for some people. Another reason that they are tearing down these structures is that most of the houses or facilities are that are abandoned are most likely to be used as stash houses for illegal immigrants or narcotics. “Crime rates are twice as high on blocks with abandoned or open buildings than on controlled buildings blocks,” . I think that tearing down the abandon houses are somewhat a good idea. I think that the drug abuse and prostitution is a pretty good reason to tear down an eye sore. But I do thing that they should buy the property off of the owners first before they try an demolish they house.

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/03/31/operation-crackdown-hits-laredo/

Texas Abortion Bill Author In 2007: No Health Care For Unborn Because 'They're Not Born Yet' ( blog 4 )

If a woman is three months pregnant, should the babe be able to qualify for health care? This is the argument that Texas State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R) is had with the House of Representatives back in 2007.   Jodie Laubenberg is pro-life and the bill that she is trying to get passed responding to her new idea that health care should be for the baby as soon as the mother becomes pregnant, “the definite death to the 70,000-plus babies who have been aborted in this state”. Eventually laubenberg pulled back her amendment, because Democratic Rep. Rafael Anchia argued against laubenberg saying that she is the change would mean that more than 95,000 children, in utero. Anchia also argued that she is actually pushing an “anti-life amendment because she does not thing that the unborn babies are not U.S citizens because they have not been born yet. She thought that all of anchia’s data was wrong and she also says that “no one [is] more pro-life” then she is.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/texas-abortion-bill-author_n_3570588.html

In Grid Debate, New Info Doesn't Sway Opinions (blog 3)

In the article that I have read, I get a feeling the author is leaning himself towards the side that is pushing for Texas to switch over to “capacity” market, instead of staying on the old fashion “energy only” market. I believe that this is only because that, if we do switch to the “capacity” market. Capacity market supporters say that there is only a 1-2 percent increase in charge. “The report suggests that switching to a capacity market would cost consumers about $400 million per year in the long run. That includes $3.2 billion in capacity payments to generators, with $2.8 billion in reduced costs of the electricity itself because of increased market certainty. Though the $400 million tab appears huge, it would only amount to a 1 percent increase in electricity rates in Texas.” (Jim Malewitz).

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/02/04/grid-debate-new-info-does-little-sway-opinions/

Immigration reform activists arrested

The article that most interested me was "Immigration Reform Activists Arrested During Protest", that described how that the Immigrants that have come over from Mexico are getting deported back. during a protest in front of the Travis county jail, there were 6 activist that had gotten arrested and charged for criminal trespassing. "Cristina Parker, the immigration project's coordinator for Grassroots Leadership, said the event, part of a national movement called Not One More, was aimed at influencing immigration policy across the country. Getting arrested is to be expected, she said".

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/02/03/immigration-reform-activists-arrested/