Recommendation for voters, good in a bad way.

“Recommendations, Texas Supreme Court” is an editorial from Fort Worth Star Telegram. The writer first gives his/her purpose of writing the post, “Voters can choose from qualified Republicans or Democrats for three seats on the Texas Supreme Court in November.” But the writer also mentions a large amount of money “has been poured into the races, primarily by lawyers, business PACs and aggressive interest groups.” This makes the voters choice less effected because voters do not know or at least familiar with those candidates. With tons of banners, ad-boards pitched along the roads, those things cost more than it worth of having a good judge for the high-court. Voters seen like to have more opportunity to make their choice, but most of people’s names appeared on the ad-board seem so strange to the voters. The writer then states his/her thinking: “The danger this year, with its electrifying presidential race, is that party coattails will whip judges around largely on affiliation, rather than qualifications.” The word “affiliation” seems a bit ironic in his/her tone of writing. Because with the economy downturn this year, we need good judges in connect between the government and those who live in the country. The writer then lists several judges who have been work for the court for at least couple of years. The writer lists state judge Jim Jordan in opposition with Republican Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. Jordan argues with Jefferson in some ways of running the court. These two judges are running for Texas Supreme Court chief justice. The writer then brings up Republican Justice Dale Wainwright with Democrat Sam Houston; they are running for Texas Supreme Court Place 7. The writer then ends with Justice Phil Johnson and Democrat Linda Yanez; they are running for Texas Supreme Court Place 8. By the listing these judges along with their weakness and strongest ability to work for the Texas Supreme Court, the write is well succeed from doing this because the reader will have more knowledge of who they are going to vote for. But in the end of very two judges’ profile, there is a recommendation sentence which says vote for this judge; the voters might be disappointed because the free to vote would be effected by the recommendation.

Gas price after Hurricane Ike

“Texas Retail Gasoline Prices Jump Since Ike”, an article from KEYE news, talks about the raising in price of gas. The article tells us the gas price was 16cents higher after Hurricane Ike hit Texas. AAA Texas reported that the average price in the statewide jumped to $3.70 per gallon; the average gas price in nationwide was $3.86 per gallon, 16cents higher than the past week, before Hurricane Ike occurred. The residents in Austin seem to pay four cents higher than other cities as recovery efforts continue. Corpus Christi had a lowest gas price in the state, $3.62 per gallon. And Texarkana had the highest gas price, $3.78 per gallon. The state does not know how long the Texas residents will face the high gas price as oil fields has not recover from the hurricane yet. The article is worth reading since gas price is the biggest problem that the entire nation faced. The gas price was just lower in the past couple of weeks. It seems we will reface the problem as the Hurricane Ike occurred in Houston, because Houston is one of the nation’s biggest oil fields in the nation.