An interview with the former Texas congressman and U.S. House Majority Leader.
August 2010
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Dallas Court Says No Gay Divorce
The state court of appeals says two men can’t turn their Massachusetts marriage into a Texas divorce.
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Data: Texas’ Most Congested Roads
The Texas Department of Transportation ranked Texas’ 100 most-congested roads using traffic data collected during 2009. Use this table to sort through those records.
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Energy
TribBlog: The Future of Water
An intensive process to plan the amount by which Texas aquifers can be depleted over the next half-century has been completed just ahead of the Sept. 1 deadline.
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State Government
2010: The Return of Term Limits
Taking a page out of the Kay Bailey Hutchison handbook, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White called for gubernatorial term limits today.
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Demographics
The Brief: Aug. 31, 2010
The president’s in Texas again today, but this time he’s all business — or, rather, no business.
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State Government
The Smoke Clears
Harris County — home to the largest city in Texas — will be without all 10,000 of its voting machines on Election Day after they were destroyed in a fire. County commissioners held an emergency meeting this week to figure out how to move forward. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune has this report.
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Congress
Dick Armey: The TT Interview
The former University of North Texas economics professor, U.S. House majority leader and hired-gun Washington lobbyist, now the head of the conservative activist group Freedom Works and the co-author of the new book Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, on what the Tea Party is and isn’t, why a GOP majority in Congress isn’t enough, where George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush went wrong, what Rick Perry did right and why Barack Obama won’t be re-elected in 2012.
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State Government
A Big Dam Issue
The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has people thinking about whether the state and coastal cities are prepared for another big storm — especially with peak storm season again upon us. As Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports, there’s concern in particular over the sturdiness of dams.