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Ross Ramsey co-founded The Texas Tribune in 2009 and served as its executive editor until his retirement in 2022. He wrote regular columns on politics, government and public policy. Before joining the Tribune, he was editor and co-owner of Texas Weekly. He did a 28-month stint in government with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Before that, he reported for the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Times Herald, as a Dallas-based freelancer for regional and national magazines and newspapers, and for radio stations in Denton and Dallas.
The Congressional Leadership Fund has launched a TV ad attacking Democrat Pete Gallego in his CD-23 race against U.S. Rep. Francisco "Quico" Canseco, R-San Antonio. The group said it will spend more than $1 million in that swing district. Full Story
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When Ken Armbrister, chief legislative aide to Gov. Rick Perry, said last week that Perry had told him he was going to run for re-election in 2014, Armbrister may have done his boss a favor. Full Story
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Our reporting on political races continues with Aaronson in Dallas’ Kent-Villalba contest in HD-114, Aguilar on the Lozano-Gonzalez Toureilles race in HD-43, Ramshaw on the heated Davis-Shelton battle in Tarrant County’s SD-10, Root on the introduction of Jesus into the Canseco-Gallego race in CD-23, Batheja contrasts ways to pay for new road projects in Texas, Grissom on the difference between county and state lockups for juveniles, Hamilton profiles the Senate’s new honcho of higher education, Murphy’s latest data drilling on Super PACs and presidential contributions by ZIP code, M. Smith’s report on cheerleaders and religion in Kountze, and video of E. Smith’s conversation with four experts on the future of Medicare: The best of our best from Oct. 15 to 19, 2012. Full Story
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As expected, the state of Texas is appealing a federal court decision throwing out Legislature's redistricting maps, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Friday. The appeal, however, won't affect the current elections. Full Story
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The chairman of the Republican Party of Texas says he won't be home before Election Day. Full Story
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A couple of key "process" decisions — adopting an official prediction of how much the economy and population will grow, and deciding how big a patch to put on the current state budget — could limit state spending for the next two years. Full Story
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Voter registration is over for this election — now it's up to the campaigns to convince people to get up and vote. The competitive races are relatively static. What was hot last week remains so this week, and so on. Here's the latest Hotlist. Full Story
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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, fresh off a stinging loss to Ted Cruz in the race for the GOP nomination to the U.S. Senate, reshuffled the Senate committee chairs. Full Story
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Even if none of the remaining incumbents gets beat or loses, this will be the biggest freshman class over all — legislative and congressional officeholders combined — since 1983, when 63 newbies came in. Full Story
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In a new TV ad, Republican Wayne Faircloth says state Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, actually lives in Austin and says he can afford his house there because "he's a trial lawyer who sues businesses." Full Story