Say it ain’t so: Elise Hu, one of the Trib’s best and brightest, is leaving us for NPR.
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State Government
A Conversation With Jim Pitts
The Waxahachie Republican talks about the size of the budget shortfall, the possibility of new revenue sources and why he’d support legalized gambling.
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State Government
Jim Pitts on the Tea Party
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on the Tea Partiers and other hyperconservative types who oppose him in his district.
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State Government
Jim Pitts on Gambling
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on why he’d back legalized gambling as a source of revenue for the state’s coffers.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Our Big, Fat QRANK Wedding
We’ve been waiting for it and wanting it for almost a year — and now the day has arrived. Finaliy, we’re launching a Trib-content-centric edition of the daily trivia game QRANK right here on our site.
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State Government
A Conversation with Jim Pitts
For our latest TribLive conversation, I interviewed the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee about the budget shortfall, the possibility of new revenue sources, whether Joe Straus will retaliate against members who opposed him and whether Tea Party threats should be taken seriously.
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State Government
Jim Pitts on the Rainy Day Fund
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on what lawmakers should do with the Rainy Day Fund.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Gohmert Takes His Shot
On Friday, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, appeared on Fox and Friends to talk about why he believes, in the wake of the Tucson shootings, that members of Congress should be allowed to carry guns in Washington, D.C.
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State Government
TribBlog: Patterson to Run for Lite Guv?
On the heels of Kay Bailey Hutchison’s announcement that she won’t run for another term in the U.S. Senate and rampant speculation that David Dewhurst will run for her seat, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson today walked up to the edge of saying he plans to run for lieutenant governor in 2014.
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State Government
Pitts: “There Will Be Less State Employees”
In our TribLive conversation this morning, state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, spoke frankly about the certainty that state employees would be cut as part of the Legislature’s solution to the budget shortfall — and he said furloughs for employees who aren’t cut may be ordered as well.
