TribBlog: The Dallas Tea Party's Olbermann Invite
Will the MSNBC host accept? Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/Screen_shot_2010-02-22_at_9.53.24_PM.png)
-
![Screen shot of the Dallas Tea Party's video challenging Keith Olbermann.]()
-
TribBlog: Staples Hacked
Don't click that link! Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples is the latest "phishing" victim on Twitter. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/staples.jpg)
![Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples]()
Credit: Texas Senate -
TribBlog: AG's Office Fires Back At Blood Spot Attorney
The Texas Attorney General's office is throwing its own punches at the attorney who sued the state over its storage of infant blood samples, saying all he wanted was the headlines. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/dna.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
Credit: Rodolfo Clix -
2010: A Crash of RINOs
Republican candidate Milton Rister says he's got nothing to do with the speaker-bashing in an email making the rounds in Georgetown. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/milton_rister.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
-
TribBlog: More "Federal Takeover" of Texas Schools?
As Texas education officials predicted when objecting to federal Race to the Top grant rules, the feds may now be moving to tie billions more in federal funds to the adoption of national curriculum standards, according to an Education Week report. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/111109_robertscott001_eh.jpg)
![Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott]()
Credit: Elise Hu -
The Midday Brief: February 22, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/103109_mximmigration_go.png)
![Article thumbnail]()
-
On the Records: 10 Days, Give or Take
Did it just get easier for governmental agencies in Texas to delay releasing public information? Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/tpia.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
-
Ads Infinitum: Perry's "The Queen"
Move over Helen Mirren, there's a new woman starring in "The Queen." That's the name of Rick Perry's latest ad attacking Kay Bailey Hutchison. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/Screen_shot_2010-02-22_at_12.10.32_PM.png)
![Screen shot of Gov. Rick Perry's ad, "The Queen."]()
-
Ads Infinitum: Perry Releases "Tenth Amendment"
Gov. Rick Perry's tapping into an anti-government groundswell with his latest ad. It's called "Tenth Amendment." Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/Screen_shot_2010-02-22_at_10.30.38_AM.png)
![Screenshot of Rick Perry's "Tenth Amendment."]()
-
Ads Infinitum: KBH Touts Endorsements
Kay Bailey Hutchison's newest commercial touts her endorsements from Texas newspapers, emphasizing their scorn for Rick Perry rather their praise for her. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/kbh-fueled.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
-
The Brief: February 22, 2010
Today marks the start of the last full week before the March 2 primaries. Accordingly, the papers are spilling some serious ink on down-ballot races. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/122209_vote001_go.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
-
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Chron for Gilbert
"[S]omeone who began working at age 10 on the family cattle ranch." Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/hank_gilbert002.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
Credit: Gilbert campaign -
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: EPT for KBH, White, Kinky
The El Paso Times backs the favorite gubernatorial candidates of edit boards elsewhere and makes its pick in the anybody's-guess Democratic primary for Ag Commissioner. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/110109_hutchiusonwhite.jpg)
![Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Houston mayor Bill White.]()
-
Signs of Shami
Without El Paso, you know, it'd be like a campaign without sunshine for Farouk Shami. The Palestinian immigrant running as a Democrat for governor has made public overtures to Latinos, and it's working: He's drawing some of his most significant support from Hispanic Democrats in the Sun City. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/FaroukShamiSign.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
Credit: Brandi Grissom -
Primary Color: HD-7
Is this the year that independent-minded state Rep. Tommy Merritt, R-Longview, finally gets his comeuppance from conservatives? Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/merritsimpson-ar.jpg)
![Rep. Tommy Merrit (left) and his Republican primary challenger David Simpson (right) unexpectedly run into each other as both court Longview's Chick-Fil-A breakfast club.]()
Credit: Abby Rapoport -
TribLive: A Conversation with Julián Castro
For the third event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the mayor of San Antonio about the big issues facing the nation's seventh-largest city, how his early notions of the job squared with the reality of being in it, his age, his ethnicity, his party affiliation in a nonpartisan office and, of course, his future plans. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/videos/021710_castro_julian.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
-
DNA Deception
When they were sued last year for storing baby blood samples without parental consent, Texas health officials said they'd done it for medical research. They never said they turned over the blood spots to the federal government to help build a vast DNA database. A Texas Tribune review of nine years' worth of e-mails and internal documents on the Department of State Health Services’ newborn blood screening program, released after the state settled the case so quickly that it never reached the discovery phase, shows an effort to limit the public’s knowledge of the program. Full Story
![Article thumbnail]()
Credit: Rodolfo Clix -
A Little Something for the Economy
This really would be sort of a sweet time to own a television station, wouldn't it? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Bill White, and Farouk Shami spending, combined, something upwards of $1 million a day, with much of that going on the air or in the mail? Full Story
-
2010: EPT Endorses Gonzalez over Chavez in HD-76
The El Paso Times endorsed challenger Naomi Gonzalez today in her bid to unseat HD-76 incumbent Norma Chavez in the March 2 Democratic primary. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/Chavez-Gonzalezsigns.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()
Credit: Brandi Grissom -
TribBlog: Mr. President?
Ron Paul wins the first big straw poll of the 2012 race for the GOP nomination. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/ron-paul.jpg)
![Article thumbnail]()