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Evan Smith is a co-founder and senior adviser at The Texas Tribune, where he served as CEO from 2009 to 2022. He’s also a senior adviser at Emerson Collective, where he works closely with the leadership teams of nonprofit news organizations around the country. Previously he spent nearly 18 years at Texas Monthly, stepping down in August 2009 as the magazine’s president and editor in chief. Evan is also the host of “Overheard with Evan Smith,” a weekly half-hour interview program that airs on PBS stations around the country. A native of New York, he is a graduate of Hamilton College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
On last night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert responded to The Response — and let the various Perry Super PACs know, in no uncertain terms, that they're not the only ones in FEC-authorized love with the Texas governor. Full Story
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Aguilar on the denial of asylum petitions by border judges, Galbraith on the history of wind, Grissom talks to the head of the Jail Standards Commission, Hamilton on plans for the state's new online university, Murphy and Ramsey on political warchests at midyear, Philpott on Texas' trucker shortage, Ramsey talks data privacy and abortion with Susan Combs, Ramshaw on the Rick Perry's experimental adult stem cell procedure, Root on the response to The Response, M. Smith on the country's could-be next first lady and Tan on a few of the ways Texas will change on Sept. 1: The best of our best content from Aug. 1 to 5, 2011. Full Story
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Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a veteran of the Marine Corps, has recorded a video in support of Air Force veteran Rick Perry's any-day-now bid for the White House. Full Story
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A new Super PAC calling itself Jobs for Iowa will air a 30-second ad today on the Fox News Channel touting Gov. Rick Perry for president. Full Story
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The Americans for Rick Perry Super PAC raised $193,000 in the last 10 days of June, according to a July 29 filing with the Federal Election Commission. Full Story
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On last night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert turned his focus to the any-day-now presidential campaign of Gov. Rick Perry — and what God has to do with it. Full Story
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Promising an "unapologetically conservative" campaign, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst today jumped into the Republican primary race to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate. Among other promises he made in a video sent to supporters, he pledged to support the controversial "Cut, Cap and Balance" budget plan under discussion in Congress. Full Story
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We've been saying all along that the Trib is unbiased and transparent — but now you don't have to take our word for it. Full Story
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Following our Tuesday night screening of Incendiary: The Willingham Case, I talked about the science of fire, guilt and innocence and death penalty politics with the filmmakers, Steve Mims and Joe Bailey Jr.; former Forensic Science Commission Chairman Sam Bassett; former Texas Governor Mark White; and Acting Corsicana City Attorney Terry Jacobson. Full Story
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In his first ad of the 2012 presidential campaign cycle, the Republican congressman from Surfside takes on the issue of the moment: the dysfunctional debate over the federal debt ceiling. Full Story
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