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Your afternoon reading: Perry's college transcript dug up; Democrats targeting Farenthold and Canseco; some Response organizers politically tied to Perry

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Gov. Rick Perry, speaking to the Texas Federation of Republican Women

Tomorrow's one of the biggest days yet of Rick Perry's career. But will the governor even show up?

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Gov. Rick Perry in an interview with Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith

Your afternoon reading: Perry pokes at Romney on health care; the governor's record on higher education; drought now worst in state's history, expert says

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Revelations over a surgical procedure may shine an even brighter spotlight on the man who could be days away from announcing his run for president.

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To help visualize demographic changes from 2000 to 2010, the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York updated its interactive maps of Houston and other major U.S. cities today.

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Your afternoon reading: Combs flips on abortion; Perry starts online university; Republicans fret about a Perry general election candidacy

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Gov. Rick Perry on May 30th, 2011

With his prayer rally just a few days away, Gov. Rick Perry has another potential worry on his hands: turnout.

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Call it a modern day Ellis Island: More people are moving to Texas than to every other state but Florida, according to a report on migration released today by the Empire Center, a New York policy research project. 

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Your afternoon reading: Brownback won't confirm Response attendance; Hutchison, Cornyn vote for debt deal; Romney eying visit to Texas

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Texas Governor Rick Perry gestures during his speech to the NAELO National Assn. of Latino Elected Officials in San Antonio on June 23, 2011.

He may be late to the game, but Gov. Rick Perry appears to have had little trouble mustering impassioned supporters.

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Your afternoon reading: Perry at 18 percent in Rasmussen poll; fundraiser holding strategy session for Perry; governor mum on the debt ceiling deal

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Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the press after leaving a school finance meeting between leaders in the House and Senate May 27, 2011.

Many Iowans watching Fox News will get their first taste of Rick Perry today.