2010: Hey, Wait a Minute
Late last night, Rick Green took to his Facebook page to dispute comments attributed to Debra Lehrmann claiming he had pledged to have his supporters back her in the general election campaign. Full Story
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The Brief: April 15, 2010
Exactly a year after the Tea Party movement asserted its might, its sympathizers want you to know something: they’re still Tea’d. Full Story
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Memorial Mission
Thanks to the fundraising prowess and strategic guidance of two prominent Texans, a new effort to share the stories of the more than 58,000 Americans — including 3,416 Texans — who died in Vietnam is underway. Full Story
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Thanks, But No Thanks
Depending on whom you ask, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins’ repeated refusal to allow Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott into a local corruption investigation is either bold or stupid. Either way, it’s unusual. Abbott has offered prosecution assistance to local district attorneys 226 times since 2007, when lawmakers first gave him permission to do it. In all but 16 cases, he’s been invited in. And Watkins didn't decline politely. Full Story
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Anatomy of a Meltdown
A consummate campaign organizer who fought first and compromised later — if ever — Norma Chávez time and again won over voters in her central El Paso district, who first sent her to the Texas House in 1996. But over the past two years, her fighting turned to bullying, and the devolution cost Chávez her job. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: White's 'Don't Mess With...'
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White's campaign is buying student newspaper ads that accuse his Republican opponent, Rick Perry, of playing politics with state universities. Full Story
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TribBlog: Don McLeroy on Al Jazeera
From the Department of You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Arab world's favorite news source takes on the State Board of Education. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: April 14, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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HuTube: Patterson, Uribe Fly the Friendly Skies
It's hard enough to travel with people you love - imagine traveling with your rival in a statewide race. Full Story
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2010: Reaching Across the Aisle?
The Texas Democratic Party wants you to know that 49 percent of the people who voted in last month's GOP primary voted against Gov. Rick Perry. Full Story
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The Brief: April 14, 2010
For some Texas politicians, it’s a dawning of a new day. For others, it’s the end of an era. Full Story
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José Reyes Ferriz: The TT Interview
The mayor of Ciudad Juárez was in Austin on Monday to discuss his city's plight at a University of Texas forum. He took a few moments to talk with the Tribune. Full Story
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Night of the Insurgents
Voters routed state Reps. Delwin Jones and Norma Chavez on Tuesday, turned back former Rep. Rick Green's bid for a spot on the Texas Supreme Court and handed victories to at least three candidates who appeared to benefit from the Tea Party insurgency in Texas. Full Story
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"The School-to-Prison Pipeline"
A new report by Texas Appleseed spotlights two troubling trends: the high number and proportion of discretionary expulsions by school districts, often for low-level "persistent misbehavior," and the disproportionate severity of discipline meted out to African-Americans. Full Story
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2010: Taylor Made
Plano's Van Taylor easily won his runoff for the Texas House, beating former Plano City Councilwoman Mabrie Griffith Jackson in the contest to succeed former Rep. Brian McCall, R-Plano. Full Story
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2010: What Brown Did for Brown
Fred Brown won another term in the Texas House, after getting himself into a four-way primary and surviving that and today's runoff against Gerald "Buddy" Winn. Full Story
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2010: Insurgents Take Lubbock
Charles Perry is on his way to the Texas House, having defeated Rep. Delwin Jones, R-Lubbock, and fellow Republican John Frullo won the GOP nomination for an open seat in his predominantly Republican district. Perry has no opposition in November. Frullo will face Democrat Carol Morgan. Full Story
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Primary Runoffs 2010: The Liveblog
We'll be liveblogging results and other tidbits as they come in tonight in 18 runoff races — 16 on the Republican side, two on the Democratic side — from around the state. Full Story
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2010: Step Into My Triple-Wide
For all they have in common as possible 2012 GOP presidential nominees, Gov. Rick Perry and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee have different tastes in living quarters. Full Story
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TribBlog: PUC Chairman Won't Seek ERCOT Job
Smitherman says while it's probably legal for the state's top energy regulator to seek the ERCOT chief executive job, "it just doesn't feel right to go forward." Full Story
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