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Join LIV with Sarah Stogner on Twitter Spaces Tonight, 7 pm!
Join us with Sarah Stogner on Twitter Spaces tonight for some fun and sass with LIV co-founder, Linda Curtis. Join us here. Sarah is a...
LIV
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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We're Back! And so is David Simpson.
At least some of you noticed that we've been off since November 2023! Our chief bottle-washer, Linda Curtis, is writing about it. So keep...
LIV
Feb 19, 20242 min read
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How the Texas GOP lit its hair -- and every Texan's local control -- on fire: Gov signs HB 2127!
<== Click on Rep. Rose's picture to watch a 5-minute excerpt of the hour presentation to LIV on June 6th by Adrian Shelley, environmental...
LIV
Jun 8, 20235 min read
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Water Update from SAWDF
From one of the wonderful Texas water defenders, SAWDF Update 5/9/2023 Legislative News Favorable legislation awaiting a public hearing...
LIV
May 12, 20234 min read
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With SB 471, TCEQ is useless as teats on a boar hog
"The bill enumerates the many different ways the TCEQ is not required to investigate a complaint, stripping away yet another public right...
LIV
May 8, 20233 min read
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Lege Water Hearing Tomorrow, LCRA Court Hearing on Wed
Thankfully, Rep. Gerdes introduced HB4445 to address massive water leakage throughout the state. Click on Nancy McKee's picture for a...
LIV
Apr 24, 20231 min read
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This MOST important water bill could die next week without a hearing.
The Elephant in the Room! Let's help Rep. Gerdes get a hearing on HB 4445, arguably the most important water bill in this session! We...
LIV
Apr 20, 20231 min read
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Alert from SAWDF
SAWDF Update • 4/13/2023 Favorable Bills making progress House Natural Resources Committee [HNRC] SB 1080 – Kolkhorst Relating to a...
LIV
Apr 17, 20233 min read
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Bastrop Biologist Challenges Elon at Botched TCEQ Meeting last night. Act on HB1505 now!
We can send a man to the moon, but we can't figure out what to do with our wastewater on god's green earth. Sean Hensley, a biologist who...
LIV
Mar 22, 20232 min read
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Austin's Aquifer Storage: Who's Got the Power?
LIV-Indy News Exclusive: The City of Austin Could Use Eminent Domain to Force Risky Aquifer Storage in Bastrop and Lee counties "The...
LIV
Feb 22, 20235 min read
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First Local Foods Lobby Day • Lost Pines Meets Wed • Giving Watson Slack
This brief LIV-Indy News boost is to encourage you go to the Capitol tomorrow, Monday, February 13th, to support our local food advocates...
LIV
Feb 12, 20232 min read
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Nattering Nabobs of Negativism Unite! LIV News, Jan. 27, 2023
Some of you young pups did not have the pleasure of witnessing former Vice President Spiro Agnew in action. Agnew was one of only two...
LIV
Jan 27, 20232 min read
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Sandow Lakes Hearing Goes to SOAH
Many thanks for permission to reprint this article from the Burleson County Tribune. LIV encourages our readers to subscribe to your...
LIV
Jan 27, 20234 min read
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New President Named to Lost Pines
Public fails to sway board to keep Sheril Smith As published in the Giddings Times & News January 26, 2023, Vol. 133, No. 37 During an...
Reprint
Jan 26, 20236 min read
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Political Drunks on Notice: Indys Got Your Number!
"I came to Driftwood from California last year expecting some peace. I can't believe what is happening to us." A petition signer at...
LIV
Apr 26, 20221 min read
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What's Rick Perry up to in HD-17, home of the water wars? Oops!
Independents call former Governor Rick Perry "Governor 39%". That was Perry's reelection percentage in 2006 when two independents --...

Linda Curtis
Jan 30, 20222 min read
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No one is talking about it.
The following article is reprinted from LIV’s Linda Curtis submission to the Bastrop Democrats newsletter. We encourage Bastrop...
LIV
Aug 24, 20212 min read
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Texas Tribune Covers Vista Ridge Pipeline Mess
Finally, the gods of Texas media are back on this never-ending story of the state of Texas’ failure to properly manage groundwater. Of...
LIV
Aug 5, 20211 min read
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Imperial Governance and Constitutional Wreckage • LIV News, July 29, 2021
Are imperial governance and the related constitutional wreckage taking Texans down a dangerous path to a constitutional crisis? These...
LIV
Jul 29, 20215 min read
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LIV News, July 22, 2021
The elephant in the Texas voting booth that neither party wants to talk about is the suppression of a plurality of Texas voters. ...
LIV
Jul 22, 20213 min read
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