A Candidate Experienced Enough to Drop Out
Politicians have to learn how to read voters, even when the voters aren't telling them what they want to hear.
Full StoryPoliticians have to learn how to read voters, even when the voters aren't telling them what they want to hear.
Full StoryEmphasizing her support for public schools could be a path to a competitive gubernatorial race for Democrat Wendy Davis. But with an education policy rollout planned of his own, Republican Greg Abbott has made clear he is not ready to let her dominate the issue.
Full StoryNatural gas is gaining a toehold in Texas’ transportation sector, as state policy and simple economics incentivize large organizations to buy vehicles that run on it.
Full StoryThis week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: It's the final week of filing for candidates in the 2014 primaries, Wendy Davis releases her last three tax returns and the rollout of the Affordable Care Act hits a few more snags.
Full StoryFor this week's nonscientific survey of insiders in government and politics, we asked whether legislators ought to be picking U.S. senators instead of voters, and about current and future leaders of the state's university systems.
Full StoryKey meetings and events for the coming week.
Full StoryHe always had a powerful story to tell. We just had him all hurt and bunged up when we got him the first time.
Katon Dawson, chairman of Rick Perry's 2012 South Carolina campaign, on why he might do better in a second try for president
Governors, like Nikki Haley, who know they are in competition and put on their running shoes make the rest of us uncomfortable.
Gov. Rick Perry, lauding his counterpart's attempts to make the Palmetto State more competitive economically
Tony Soprano didn’t own the pork store for the sandwiches.
Josh Orton, the political director of Progressives United, arguing for further restrictions on "social welfare" groups' ability to channel money from anonymous donors to influence elections
I think it would be a fool’s errand to try to compete with Lone Star. That kind of music can only be composed by one person.
The Gates of the Alamo author Stephen Harrigan, saying he didn't re-read T.R. Fehrenbach's classic Texas history while preparing to write his own history of the state
Of course it was a beating. If [Rice administrators] don't have zero tolerance for what I saw with my own eyes, I will deal with them in Austin.
State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, calling for the firing of Rice University police officers caught on video striking a suspected bicycle thief with batons
To ask me — a business degree major from Texas Tech University — to distinguish whether the Earth cooled 4 billion years ago or 4.2 billion years ago for purposes of approving a textbook at 10:15 on a Thursday night is laughable.
State Board of Education member Thomas Ratliff, establishing some limits on the board as a deliberative body
Only 10 of 48 statewide candidates shared their tax returns with The Texas Tribune for a story. One who did was Wendy Davis, who released her returns for the last three years to the Tribune's Jay Root. Greg Abbott released his returns for the past three years in August.
Greg Abbott launched a series of education policy roundtables, debuting what his campaign said would be a "major issue" for the campaign of the leading Republican candidate for governor. The occasion soon led to a back-and-forth with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis over $5.4 billion in cuts for public education in the 2011 state budget.
Former Republican Party of Texas Chairman Tom Pauken decided against continuing his long-shot campaign for governor against Attorney General Greg Abbott. Pauken explained that "unfortunately we are nowhere near where we need to be financially and organizationally to win this race."
To address privacy concerns raised by state leaders, the Texas Department of Insurance proposed additional rules for the so-called navigators directed to help Texans find health insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst charged lawmakers with examining a recent crime enforcement surge effort in the Rio Grande Valley and said he would push to add $60 million worth of border enforcement per year until the border is secure.
Texas doesn't require enough disclosure from its judges to fully inform the public about conflicts of interest, according to a new report.
Well, that didn't take long. Outgoing Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin has been officially named the new chancellor of the University of Missouri.
James Clancy of Portland and Tom Ramsay of Mount Vernon were both reappointed to new terms with the Texas Ethics Commission by Gov. Rick Perry. Their new terms in office run through Nov. 19, 2017.
Steven Mach of Houston was appointed by Perry to a spot on the Public Safety Commission. His term runs through Dec. 31, 2015.
Margie Johnson has been named to lead the Texas Education Agency's Office of Complaints, Investigations and School Accountability. The new office will receive and investigate "complaints and allegations regarding school accountability, educator misconduct, and misuse of state and federal funds," per a TEA release.
Ted Shaw will take over as leader of the Texas Hospital Association on Feb. 1. He is currently chief financial officer at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas.
David Reynolds, the former director of the Texas Medical Association's political arm, will take over as executive director of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association on Dec. 9.
The Texas Border Coalition has named Adan Farias, Pharr's mayor pro tem, as its new chairman and former Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas as its new chairman-elect. Their terms run until 2015.