For this week's nonscientific survey of government and political insiders, we asked questions from the most recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll on federal health care laws, Texas public schools and anti-tax pledges. Full Story
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A California hospital company facing allegations it inflated disease diagnoses to bill Medicare for more expensive conditions — including a form of Third World malnutrition rarely found in the U.S. — is edging into Texas. Full Story
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Your evening reading: Dewhurst challenges Cruz; Parties prep for political conventions; and one in four Texas children at risk of going hungry. Full Story
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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz are on board for two televised debates before the July 31 runoff in the Republican race for U.S. Senate. Full Story
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Mitt Romney travels to the Lone Star State this week to collect money for his presidential campaign and tout his economic proposals. Full Story
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A new study by Feeding America, a hunger-relief charity, says that in 2010, 27.1 percent of Texas children faced food insecurity, defined by the USDA as lacking consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Full Story
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As the dust from last week's primary elections settles, it's time for candidates to gear up and buckle down for the business ahead. Full Story
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Republican and Democratic candidates spent $90 million in the lead-up to the May 29 primary. This interactive shows each candidate's expenditure totals, votes received and average amount spent per vote. Full Story
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Races for speaker of the House are based on relationships. How does that work when there are so many freshmen and sophomore members in the House? Full Story
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A Texas Tribune analysis of spending figures and vote totals in the May 29 primary shows that a high-dollar payout does not guarantee a promising election effort. Full Story
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A Texas A&M University-San Antonio instructor says she no longer has classes to teach because of questions she raised about the placement of crosses near the campus. Full Story
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Our primary night scoreboard and liveblog, Aguilar on runoff strategy, Root and Batheja on Round two of Dewhurst vs. Cruz, M. Smith on how public education candidates fared, Ramshaw on what surprised pundits and pollsters, Galbraith on concerns over our electric grid, Aaronson on which government entities have access to your personal info, Grissom with the latest on the Hank Skinner case, Ramsey on Hispanic Republicans and part three of Tan's family planning series: The best of our best content from May 28 to June 1, 2012. Full Story
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Your evening reading: State Rep. Ken Legler passes away; State backs DNA testing for Skinner; CD 16 primary winner O'Rourke says campaign wasn't about marijuana. Full Story
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At this morning's TribLive conversation, state Reps. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, and Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, discussed the prospect of a Speaker's race leading up to the 2013 legislative session. Full Story
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SpaceX, which just sent the first private spacecraft to the International Space Station, has proposed building a launch pad in Texas. But the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is concerned the proposed site is too close to endangered species. Full Story
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Democrat Grady Yarbrough, who surprised many earlier this week by making it into a U.S. Senate primary runoff with former state Rep. Paul Sadler, created a campaign commercial that he says aired once in the Waco area. Full Story
Reversing its decade-long objection to testing that death row inmate Hank Skinner says could prove his innocence, the Texas Attorney General's office on Friday filed an advisory with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals seeking to test DNA in the case. Full Story
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State Rep. Ken Legler, R-Pasadena, has passed away, according to the House speaker's office. He was 54. Full Story
Tuesday night was a wash for candidates hoping to capitalize on a backlash against the 2011 Legislature's deep budget cuts to public schools. Some won and some lost, and there wasn't a definite guiding narrative as to why. Full Story
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At this morning's TribLive conversation, state Reps. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, and Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, discussed whether Tuesday's primaries were a referendum on Speaker of the House Joe Straus. Full Story
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