Video: America's Place in the World
Here's full video of our "America's Place in the World" panel discussion Saturday at The Texas Tribune Festival. The panel featured U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin. Full Story
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Three Private Colleges Likely to Ban Guns
Three private colleges — Trinity University, Austin College and Paul Quinn College — likely will opt out of a new state law allowing licensed students to carry concealed guns on campus, their presidents said Saturday. Rice University is still thinking it over. Full Story
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Pelosi: Dems Open to "Bipartisan" Candidate for House Speaker
Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday there are Democrats in the U.S. House who are open to joining with some Republicans to elect a consensus choice for House Speaker. Full Story
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Video: Pelosi at the Texas Tribune Festival
Here's full video of our Saturday conversation with U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi at The Texas Tribune Festival. Full Story
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Sid Miller Sees Human Role in Climate Change
After seeing the smog in China, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says he believes human actions have contributed to climate change — though Texas isn't a big part of the problem. Full Story
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Straus Defends Conservative Record of House
Critics of his leadership should look at the conservative record of the Texas House under three terms of his speakership, Joe Straus told an audience at the Texas Tribune Festival Saturday. Full Story
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Video: Homeland Security Begins at Home
Here's full video of our "Homeland Security Begins at Home" panel discussion Saturday at The Texas Tribune Festival. The panel featured U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, Henry Cuellar, Blake Farenthold, Beto O'Rourke and John Ratcliffe. Full Story
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Video: Can the Center Hold?
Here's full video of our "Can the Center Hold?" panel discussion Saturday at The Texas Tribune Festival. The panel featured former U.S. Sens. Evan Bayh and Kay Bailey Hutchison, former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu. Full Story
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At TribFest Opener, Patrick Makes a Spirited Conservative Pitch
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unapologetically stuck to his guns in an on-stage interview Friday evening — and his religious views, and the Legislature’s conservative budget and the state’s reluctance to embrace Medicaid expansion and the federal health care law. Full Story
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Video: Dan Patrick at The Texas Tribune Festival
Here's full video of my conversation Friday with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at The Texas Tribune Festival. Full Story
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Judge Denies Emergency Relief in Birth Certificate Case
A federal district judge Friday declined to order Texas officials to institute a temporary fix so children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States can get their birth certificates while a lawsuit filed by their parents is being tried. Full Story
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Predictions of Woe from Federal Clean Air Plan Softened
President Obama’s plan to combat climate change will cause higher power prices in Texas and threaten electric reliability, but not as much as originally feared, operators of the state’s main grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas say in a new analysis. Full Story
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Abbott to Feds: Cease Your "Land Grab"
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott fired a new volley at the Bureau of Land Management Friday, adding to the years-long standoff between the state and the federal agency over the ownership of roughly 90,000 acres along the Red River. Full Story
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Longhorns Mascot Bevo has Died
The recently retired Texas Longhorn mascot Bevo XIV has died, University of Texas at Austin officials said. The 2,100-pound longhorn was diagnosed with the bovine leukemia virus earlier this month. Full Story
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Texans Wanted in Next Obamacare Signups
The next round of signups for health insurance under the Affordable Care act is two weeks away, and federal officials are lowering their estimates of how many will enroll. But uninsured Texans are a particular target. Full Story
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New in Texas Weekly: Familiar Faces in New Races
New challengers with familiar names emerge in races, Ted Cruz records a blazing start to the new fundraising period and an education commissioner reflects — all that and more in the latest issue of our subscriber-only newsletter for political insiders ($). Full Story
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Rep. Vela to Host Major South Texas Fundraiser
A band of powerhouse congressional Democrats is headed to South Texas this weekend to headline a fundraiser bolstering the campaign coffers of U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela's re-election campaign. Full Story
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Roundup: Clinton in Texas and Homework for the Senate
In the Roundup: Hillary Clinton comes to Texas to energize Latino voters and picks up a key endorsement, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick assigns senators some homework, and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn promotes legislation to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Full Story
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The Brief: Oct. 16, 2015
New federal campaign reports released on Thursday present a portrait of a free spending Rick Perry presidential campaign weeks before Perry dropped out of the race. Full Story
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Alamo Historic District Prepares for Change
Representatives from the Texas General Land Office, the city of San Antonio and the Alamo Endowment Board put pen to paper Thursday, signing an agreement to develop a master plan for the Alamo Historic District and Complex. Past efforts have failed, but state officials are optimistic that this time the plan will stick. Full Story
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