Today is the first day you’ll see robust journalism produced by the reporters of The Texas Tribune in the pages of The New York Times and on nytimes.com.
Evan Smith
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Politics
Perry Up By 12 in Newspaper Poll
Gov. Rick Perry’s lead over his Democratic challenger, Bill White, is now 12 points, according to the latest poll commissioned by the five big-city newspapers.
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Politics
2010: Perry by 8 in Rasmussen Poll
Gov. Rick Perry leads Bill White by 8 percentage points, 51 to 43, in a Rasmussen Reports poll released Saturday.
Posted inState Government
2010: Star-Telegram for White
The Democratic nominee for governor has run the big-city newspaper endorsement table. Joining its counterparts in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram today backed Bill White is his quest to deny Rick Perry a third full term in office.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
M. Smith on the frailties of electronic voting machines, Hu on the big bump in early voter turnout, Chang talks to the national coordinator of Health Information Technology, Hamilton on why the nondiscrimination policies of state university systems don’t include sexual orientation, Aguilar on the prospect of high school football referees on strike, Stiles updates our government employee salary app to include 20 more public agencies, Philpott on where the candidates in HD-52 stand on fast growth, Galbraith on damage to Texas roads caused by heavy truck traffic, Grissom interviews the first Hispanic sheriff of Harris County and my one-hour sit-downs with Rick Perry and Bill White: The best of our best from October 18 to 22, 2010.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: But We Don’t Look a Day Over Zero…
On Tuesday, Nov. 2 — which happens to be Election Day — The Texas Tribune will have been live and online for a year. Hell of a good time for a party, yes?
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Yes, We’re Partnering With The New York Times
Now it can be told — more deliberately and more fully fleshed out than you may have read yesterday: The Trib has indeed inked a partnership with the New York Times that will result in the best of our content appearing in the pages of the most iconic newspaper in the world.
Posted inState Government
2010: Midland Paper for Perry, Sort Of
Make that two newspaper endorsements for Rick Perry in his quest to win a third full term as governor — although the second one, unlike the first, is the dictionary definition of “ambivalent.”
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Demographics
An Hour With Rick Perry
On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry sat down with me for an interview co-presented by the Tribune and Austin’s public broadcasting stations, KUT and KLRU. We talked about the controversy over the Emerging Technology Fund, the calendar he makes public and the one he doesn’t, how he’d cut the shortfall, which federal stimulus money he likes, whether Texas is a sanctuary state, the limits of abstinence education and more.
