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Who won the debate? Our panel of ten undecided Republican voters was nearly unanimous in its decision. Full Story
Who won the debate? Our panel of ten undecided Republican voters was nearly unanimous in its decision. Full Story
Now U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison isn't the only one talking about border issues on television. Full Story
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
Don't just watch the debate. Follow along with our reporters in Dallas and Austin with our team liveblog event tonight. Full Story
The three Republican gubernatorial candidates — Kay Bailey Hutchison, Debra Medina, and Rick Perry — met for the second, and probably final, time in Dallas tonight. We came, we watched, we wrote, live-blogging all the way. Full Story
Brief devotees, like this brief writer, have surely scheduled their date nights for Saturday—tonight’s the second and final Republican gubernatorial debate, and everyone’s talking about it! Full Story
If doctors in Texas are going to start using electronic medical records, somebody has to teach them how to do it. The state's universities are gearing up to teach the teachers. Full Story
It took a crew of eight Northwestern University students to bring national attention to questions about Hank Skinner's death sentence. But his legal pleas for more DNA testing of crime scene evidence — and his lawsuit against the Gray County district attorney — have gone nowhere. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, he'll be executed on Feburary 24. Full Story
In the Information Age, it still takes the major political parties in Texas three weeks to figure out who should be listed on their state ballots. Full Story
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Democrats Bill White and Farouk Shami will face off before a live audience in a televised debate. Full Story
Local elected officials and civil rights groups urged legislators at a committee hearing today to implement more programs for women and girls in Texas prisons and jails. Full Story
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
For our Texas retrospective of the State of the Union, let’s start from the top of the political food chain and work our way down. Full Story
Two very different Texans in the U.S. House of Representatives — Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and John Carter, R-Round Rock — respond to the president's State of the Union address. Full Story
Hank Skinner is set to be executed for a 1993 murder he's always maintained he didn't commit. He wants the state to test whether his DNA matches evidence found at the scene, but prosecutors say the time to contest his conviction has come and gone. He has less than a month to change their minds. Full Story
Three challenges stand between Texas and the era of electronic medical records: convincing doctors to use them, figuing out how to safely share and protect them and finding a way to pay for them. Full Story
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
Bellaire High School senior Li Boynton is smarter than you, so she gets to watch the State of the Union with Michelle Obama. Full Story
The recently laid-off Jason Stanford, a noted Kinky Friedman critic, has landed a job with ... Kinky Friedman. Full Story