Linda Chavez-Thompson, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, told a TribLive audience this morning that she’s not afraid of being associated with President Barack Obama; quite the opposite.
Evan Smith
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T-Squared
T-Squared: A Time of Renewal
Six weeks and counting: November 3, 2010, is the day when we reset the Trib membership clock to zero, when anyone who’s been with us for a year or more needs to stand with us again to remain an active member. There are a bunch of good reasons to re-up.
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2010: Houston Chronicle Endorses Bill White
First out of the gate among the big-city newspaper endorsers, the Houston Chronicle today threw its support behind favorite son Bill White, Houston’s former mayor, in the gubernatorial square-off against incumbent Rick Perry.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Anderson Cooper vs. Debbie Riddle, Round 3
Last night, Anderson Cooper used our TribLive footage to go all oh-no-you-didn’t on state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball.
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Our First-Ever Live TribCast
This week, the usual TribCast crew — Elise, Ben, Ross and Evan — took to the Austin City Limits stage in the studios of public television station KLRU to tape what was the first (and hopefully won’t be the last) live TribCast. Our topics: the UT/TT poll, including the governor’s race results; the size of the Tea Party in Texas; budgetary gloom and doom; and that Rick Perry ad shot in enemy territory.
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Demographics
A Conversation With Debbie Riddle
For the 12th event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the GOP state representative from Tomball about what she really said on CNN, whether “tourism” babies are a threat to national security, why an Arizona-style immigration law would be right for Texas and whether she’ll back Joe Straus for speaker.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Galbraith’s three-parter on the battle over wind power transmission lines, Grissom on a convicted killer who got probation, Aguilar on how the U.S. census counts inmates in the Texas prison system, Stiles launches a new interactive tool tracking the candidates for governor, Hamilton on the Texas A&M University System’s latest accountability measure for faculty, Hu’s interview with Democratic megadonor Steve “Back to Basics” Mostyn, Philpott on how the Texas economy compares to that of other states and Ramsey on the start of the 2010 election sprint: The best of our best from Sept. 6 to 10, 2010.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: My Q&A With “Al-Qaeda”
Last week, the Trib presented the Texas premiere of My Trip to Al-Qaeda, a new documentary that aired on HBO tonight. After the screening, I interviewed the filmmakers, director Alex Gibney and author and journalist (and Austinite) Lawrence Wright.
