2010: No Replacement
David Swinford's seat in the Texas House will apparently remain empty for the next four months. Full Story
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2010: Express-News vs. Canseco, Round 2
Bob Richter, public editor of the San Antonio paper, responds to the GOP House candidate's charges of biased coverage. Full Story
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TribBlog: Illegal Immigration Down in U.S.
The number of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. has declined considerably in the past few years when compared to the first half of the previous decade, according to a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center. Full Story
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TribBlog: Institute for Creation Research Ends Legal Fight
The Institute for Creation Research has ended its fight with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which denied the Dallas-based Christian school the authority to offer master's degrees in science education. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Sept. 1, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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The Brief: Sept. 1, 2010
Is $2 million a sufficient consolation prize for losing the governor's race? Full Story
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The 100 Most Congested Roads
A new Texas Department of Transportation study names Texas' 100 most congested roadways, which are heavily concentrated in Houston and the Dallas Metroplex; Bexar is the only one of the big five counties without a top-10 trouble spot. Policymakers hope the study will focus the public and lawmakers on the state's problem areas. Full Story
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Coal Hard Facts
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering new regulations for coal ash ā the waste left over from coal-fired power plants. As Matt Largey of KUT News reports, those new rules could have a big impact in Texas, the nationās number one coal consumer. Full Story
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The Sting of the Killer Bees
The rules of the Texas Senate are designed to create an orderly process that respects the rights of individual members. They have lasted this long because they do the job well and consider the need for compromise in the legislative operation. Trampling the rights of the minority is never a good idea ā and yet it has happened over and over again. An excerpt from the forthcoming How Things Really Work: Lessons from a Life in Politics. Full Story
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Laura Miller: The TT Interview
The former Dallas mayor on her new life as an energy policy nerd, leaving journalism for the "dark side" of elective office, her continuing frustration over the Trinity River Project and her (lack of) political aspirations. Full Story
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TribBlog: Dallas Court Says No Gay Divorce
The state court of appeals says two men can't turn their Massachusetts marriage into a Texas divorce. Full Story
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TribBlog: The Future of Water
An intensive process to plan the amount by which Texas aquifers can be depleted over the next half-century has been completed just ahead of the Sept. 1 deadline. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Aug. 31, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: The Return of Term Limits
Taking a page out of the Kay Bailey Hutchison handbook, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White called for gubernatorial term limits today. Full Story
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The Brief: Aug. 31, 2010
The president's in Texas again today, but this time he's all business ā or, rather, no business. Full Story
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Jail the Jail Official?
The head of the state's Commission on Jail Standards could do time for being too open about a suicide in the Nueces County lockup. Is the indictment of Adan MuƱoz retaliation by a sheriff his lawyer describes as a "crazy little bastard"? Regardless, an open government advocate calls it "outrageous." Full Story
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Dick Armey: The TT Interview
The former University of North Texas economics professor, U.S. House majority leader and hired-gun Washington lobbyist, now the head of the conservative activist group Freedom Works and the co-author of the new book Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, on what the Tea Party is and isn't, why a GOP majority in Congress isn't enough, where George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush went wrong, what Rick Perry did right and why Barack Obama won't be re-elected in 2012. Full Story
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TribBlog: "La Barbie" Captured
Authorities in Mexico have detained the alleged Texas-born cartel leader Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known as āLa Barbie.ā Full Story
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TribBlog: Send in the Drone
State lawmakers have long been clamoring for an unmanned drone to boost security on the border. On Wednesday they'll get their wish, as an unmanned drone begins patrolling the Texas skies. Full Story
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2010: Canseco Snubs Express-News [Updated]
Echoing Gov. Rick Perry's refusal to interview with editorial boards across the state, Republican congressional candidate Francisco "Quico" Canseco says he won't meet with his hometown paper. Full Story
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