Four Republicans and two Democrats hoping to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate focused more on their own positions and records rather than their opponents during a televised candidate forum Thursday.
May 3, 2012 9:46 pm
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The Evening Brief: May 3, 2012
Your evening reading: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan to speak at Texas GOP convention; UT regents back tuition hikes, medical school development; Medina calls for end to property tax
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Higher Education
UT Regents Back Some Tuition Hikes, Commit to New Med Schools
Tuition will go up next year for most students in the University of Texas System, after a Board of Regents vote today. Regents also committed to developing medical schools in Austin and South Texas.
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Criminal Justice
Weekend Insider: Ted Nugent Talks
This week in The New York Times and at texastribune.org, Jay Root talks with rock-and-roll star and Second Amendment advocate Ted Nugent.
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Higher Education
Video: GenTX Targets College-Going Culture
Three key participants in “Generation Texas,” an effort to improve the state’s college-going culture, discuss the $3 million campaign — and their hopes for higher education attainment statewide.
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Higher Education
Texas A&M University Unveils New Accountability Website
This week, Texas A&M University is making significant amounts of data easily available to the public on a new “accountability” website, allowing people to dig into issues such as graduation rates, research expenditures and more.
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Facing Uphill Slog in U.S. Senate Race, Democrats Join the Stage Tonight
At a forum tonight in Houston, Democrats Paul Sadler and Sean Hubbard will join the four leading Republican candidates vying for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat.
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Ethics Complaints Latest Salvo in Wentworth-Jones Battle
State Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, filed ethics complaints on Wednesday against his opponent, former railroad commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones, and her husband, Will Jones.
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Higher Education
UT-Permian Basin to Offer a New Kind of $10,000 Degree
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin has announced the creation of a $10,000 bachelor’s degree program. Highly qualified students with a strong interest in science can apply this fall.
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The Brief: May 3, 2012
Tonight, the Democrats vying for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat may finally steal a sliver of the spotlight.