Ideas | Action | Results: November 2007

Thursday, November 8, 2007

SAVE OUR AWESOME PLANET

My son has started a recycling club at his grammar school called “Save Our Awesome Planet” (S.O.A.P.)

Please recycle and conserve energy so that we can all help in the fight to “Save Our Awesome Planet.”

Thank You.

More about Carroll G. Robinson, Esq.

Carroll G. Robinson is the Associate Dean of External Affairs and Assistant Professor at the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas; the second largest historically black college and university in the United States.

Robinson serves as the Chairman of the Houston Citizens’ Chamber of Commerce (2007), as well as a member of the Board of Directors of CHILDREN AT RISK and Board of Managers for the Northeast YMCA in Houston, Texas. He is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Holocaust Museum of Houston.

Robinson also serves as Chairman of the Houston City Council District D METRO Rail Task Force (2005 - 2007). He is an Advisory Board member of Texas Southern University’s Center for Transportation Training and Research (CTTR) (2006-2008)and is an Editorial Board Member of CHILDREN AT RISK’s 2007 Growing up in Houston: Assessing the Quality of Life of Our Children Report.

Robinson is a member of the National Bar Association (NBA), American Bar Association (ABA), State Bar of Texas(SBOT), Houston Lawyers Association and Houston Bar Association.

He is a former Chair of the SBOT African-American Lawyers Section, a former member of the Texas Young Lawyers Association Board of Directors and a former President, Director and Parliamentarian of the Houston Lawyers Association and a former Associate Director of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.

He is married to Mikita Kirkland Robinson and they are the proud parents of Kirkland Eugene Anthony Robinson.

Op-Eds., Commentaries and Magazine Articles Written by Carroll G. Robinson, Esq.

Did they die in vain? Do you care?, The Herald (Texas Southern University Student Newspaper), August 31, 2007, (Vol. 60, No. 1) pg. 13.

Enough is Enough, Houston Forward Times, April 11-17, 2007, pg. 1A.

Houston Doesn’t Need A Garbage Fee, The Informer & Texas Freeman, February 16, 2007, pg. A2. (Also published in Style Magazine, February 8-14, 2007, pg. 6 StyleMagazine.com

Texas Taxpayers Need Real Property Tax Relief, Houston Business Connections, February 8, 2007, pg. 8. HoustonBusinessConnections.com

Houston can do a better job to lift minorities out of poverty, Gospel Truth, Vol. 1, No.1, 2006, pg. 6. GospelTruthMagazine.com

Redistricting Opinion Not a Surprise, TEXAS LAWYER, July 10, 2006, pg. 27. (Letter to the editor)

A Legacy to Live Up To, Texas Southern University’s Generations of Pride Magazine, Spring 2006, pg. 24.

Another Name to Consider for the 2008 Democratic Party Presidential Nomination, D-MARS Business Journal, September/October 2005 (Vol.1, Edition 3), pg. 11.
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Proposition not about games, Houston Chronicle (Letters), December 2, 2004, pg. B10.

Voter Rights Are Older Than 40 Years Old, African Methodist Episcopal Church, 9th Episcopal District, Mission Matters, Winter Quarter 2004, Vol. 1, No. 2

Let Houston voters fix the City Charter, Houston Chronicle, March 14, 2004, pg. 1C.

Carroll G. Robinson, How to fix city’s budget? The tough choices, Houston Chronicle, February 16, 2004, pg. 25A.

Houston, Let’s Talk, Houston Star, January 22, 2004, pg. A4.

Education Matters, Black and Single Magazine, December 2003/January 2004, pg. 6.

City can pay for drainage without a rain tax, Houston Chronicle, December 2, 2003, pg. 29A.

Question? Failure to Vote: What’s the Reason?, Black and Single Magazine, October 2003, pg. 16.

The city of Houston can well afford a tax cut, Houston Chronicle, September 30, 2003, pg. 19A.

Next mayor will need plan – here’s one, Houston Chronicle, July 20, 2003, pg. 1C.

Metro’s more than a bus company/piggy bank, Houston Chronicle, April 30, 2003, pg. 31A.

America Should Give the World What it Wants, The Faculty Speaks, Texas Southern University, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2003, pg. 5.

Plan of action addresses city budget problem, Houston Business Journal, February 23 – March 6, 2003, pg. 55A.

Why City Council should speak on war with Iraq, Houston Chronicle, February 25, 2003, pg. 17A.

Toll bridge idea good one, Houston Chronicle, December 28, 2002, pg. 35A.

Common sense needed for Democratic comeback, Houston Chronicle, December 2, 2002, pg. 25A.

He’s for universal pre-K, Houston Chronicle, June 12, 2002, pg. 39A.

Idea of privatizing city zoo needs more work, Houston Chronicle, April 24, 2002, pg. 33A.

Proposition 15 will move Texans out of gridlock, Houston Chronicle, October 8, 2001, pg. 27A.

City improvements possible without tax increase, Houston Chronicle, June 22, 2001, pg. 33A.

Sell excess water to replenish the city’s budget, Houston Chronicle, January 18, 2001, pg. 25A.

A way DeLay can prove he’s a man of his word, Houston Chronicle, May 18, 2000, pg. 27A.

Houston still needs a Downtown Arena, African-American News & Issues, November 24-30, 1999, pg. 4.

Let City Hall see benefits of a performance review, Houston Chronicle, January 23, 1998, pg. 33A.

Let’s not forget personal, parental and community responsibility, The Informer and Texas Freeman, October 26, 1996, pg. 3.

Court mustn’t deter Houston, Houston Chronicle, July 9, 1995, pg. 1C.,/li>

Black lawyers and the Black church have a common bond, Houston Defender, June 18-24, 1995, pg. 4A.

Democrats must rebuild on principles, The Dallas Morning News, June 7, 1995, pg. 22A.

Can’t outlaw discrimination, Houston Chronicle, March 10, 1995, pg. 37A.

Trouble is globalization, Houston Chronicle, February 26, 1995, pg. 1C

Texas Democrats must provide vision, Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1994, pg. 17A.

Dems mustn’t take Texans of color for granted, Houston Chronicle, November 18, 1994, pg. 37A.

For patients’ good, HMOs shouldn’t fire doctors without due process, Houston Chronicle, June 19, 1994, pg. 4E.

Blacks must seek global empowerment, The Final Call, May 25, 1994, pg. 24.

Mr. President, let Houstonians, tell you…, Houston Chronicle, February 6, 1994, pg. 1E.

A political test for Houston’s African-American community, Houston Chronicle, January 23, 1994, pg. 4E.

Popular Culture Took Hold When Parents Flew Coop, National Minority Politics, October 1993,pg. 7.

Seeing Through An Elaborate Scheme, Our Texas, Summer 1993, pg. 19.

Greater understanding of the world important, Austin American-Statesman, July 3, 1993, pg. A19.

Here comes the new-old ‘affirmative action,’ Houston Chronicle, June 8, 1993, pg. 15A.

African American History, A Celebration of Who We Are, Houston Newspages, February 11-17, 1993, pg. 2.

Minorities taken for granted on electing judges, Houston Chronicle, February 10, 1993, pg. 11C.

The Quest For Single Member Judicial Districts, Houston Lawyers Association Newsletter, December 1992, pg. 1.

One Vote, One Judge, The Texas Observer, December 1992, pg. 17.

Minority judges need single-member districts, Houston Chronicle, November 12, 1992, pg. 19B.

Texas blacks have an agenda for next Legislature and beyond, Houston Chronicle, November 11, 1992, pg. 1F.

Houston must act now to save fiscal stability, Houston Chronicle, March 20, 1992, pg. 15C.

Black Texans should support Clinton on Super Tuesday, The Informer and Texas Freeman, March 7, 1992.

It’s going to take all of us to make Houston safe again…, Houston Chronicle, February 9, 1992, pg. 4E.

African-American Summit Needed, Republic Star, January 1991.

What every employee should know about Workers’ Compensation, Houston Black Tie Magazine, November/December, 1989, pg. 6.