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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.
Viability is a standard question in politics. Why is she running? What about that guy? Don’t they know they’re going to lose? The Libertarians and the Greens don't think that's the right question. Full Story
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Michael Quinn Sullivan said he hadn't seen the ethics complaints filed by two Republican legislators, but "I do know, they're just trying to distract people about their record." Full Story
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For this week's nonscientific survey of the state's political and government insiders, we asked about their current assessment of the presidential race, federal health care, prosecutor accountability, and whether the governor could wind up on the national ticket. Full Story
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Want to fire up a politician's ambitions? Just create an opening in a higher position — or the possibility of one. Some Texas Republicans are salivating at the prospects of a new job. Full Story
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A Republican former lieutenant governor laments the cuts in public education spending and the Legislature's reliance on borrowing and accounting tricks to balance the state budget. Full Story
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For this week's nonscientific survey of political and government insiders, we asked about the state's infrastructure problems, about tax incentives for a cash-rich company and about the economic effects of Texas vs. the EPA. Full Story
What started with a notebook full of proposed changes to civil law in Texas has become a permanent fight between seemingly permanent institutions. Full Story
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Ramshaw and Tan on the long path leading to the current state-vs.-feds fight over women's health care, Aaronson's interactive map of where those program cuts land, Root on the surprising idea that even a late primary has Texas in play in the presidential race, M. Smith's report on who might succeed the Senate's departing education maven, Theobald on government incentives for one of the world's richest companies, Hamilton on the financial pinches at community colleges, Aguilar on a planned coal mine and efforts to stop the rail line that would come with it, and Galbraith with the latest on the Texas drought: The best of our best content from March 19 to 23, 2012. Full Story
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In her first TV commercials — running during college basketball games this weekend and then in broader rotation in Austin and San Antonio starting next week — Texas Senate candidate Elizabeth Ames Jones says she'll create jobs and fight "Obama bureaucrats." Full Story
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Adaptation is a tricky business, especially in the political realm, where sudden and surprising changes can become perilous "flip-flops." Full Story
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