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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.

Latest Contributions

  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Ross Ramsey

    Grissom profiles the lawyer investigating the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, Tan reports on access to abortions in the Rio Grande Valley, E. Smith interviews three U.S. senators on Todd Akin’s rape comments, Root notes the relative absence of Texans on stage at next week’s GOP convention, Ramshaw on potential changes to Medicaid fraud investigations, Hamilton looks into free online courses from elite universities, Batheja interviews Phil Wilson about high-speed rail and paying for roads, Aguilar on whether certain immigrants can get Texas driver's licenses, Aaronson maps the scarcity of healthy food and Dehn’s Weekend Insider looks at a Texas lawmaker and a Texas lawyer: The best of our best from Aug. 20 to 24, 2012. Full Story 

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  • Elections Behind and Ahead

    By Ross Ramsey

    The story through the primaries and runoffs? It's over for most of the races — only a few remain competitive. Turnover, as you would expect in the election after a redistricting, is high. Full Story 

    General and primary election turnout in Texas since 1970 as a percentage of the voting age population

  • Notes on a Runoff

    By Ross Ramsey

    The high points and the low ones. Lessons learned and earlier lessons that were forgotten. Low turnout, unfortunate incumbents, successful climbers, the Hispanic Thing, the races ahead, the turnover and some things to help understand what happened on Tuesday. Full Story 

    Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on July 31, 2012, in Houston addressing the crowd at a watch party following the announcement that he lost the U.S. Senate runoff to Ted Cruz.
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  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Ross Ramsey

    Aaronson and Aguilar on deferred deportation beneficiaries in Texas, Aguilar on Republicans and Latinos, Grissom and M. Smith on a move unlikely to improve frosty relations between two State Board of Education rivals, Hamilton on meningitis vaccines at Texas colleges and universities, Murphy on what each vote cost the winners and losers in last month’s primary runoffs, M. Smith on claims and counter-claims of flaws in standardized school tests, Tan on a legislator’s reaction to the Tribune’s request for his recent personal income tax returns, Grissom on lax security at the state’s juvenile prisons and Dehn’s Weekend Insider on meningitis vaccines and birth control on the border: The best of our best from Aug. 6 to 10, 2012. Full Story 

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