53 percent of Texans strongly favor a repeal of federal health care reform legislation, while 24 percent strongly oppose repeal, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Grissom on the transgender marriage conundrum, Hu on the workers’ comp whistleblowers, M. Smith on the Texas GOP’s brush with debt, Garcia-Ditta on why student regents should vote, Aguilar on the tripling of the number of visas given by the feds to undocumented crime victims, Hamilton on the paltry number of state universities with graduation rates above 50 percent, Ramshaw and Stiles on the high percentage of Texas doctors trained in another country, Ramsey and Stiles on congressmen giving to congressmen, Galbraith on how prepared Texas is (very) for a BP-like oil spill, and my conversation with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst: The best of our best from May 10 to 14, 2010.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Facebook + Trib = Awesome
This afternoon we pushed changes to the Trib site that better and more aggressively incorporate aspects of Facebook into our, and your, everyday lives.
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TribLive: David Dewhurst, Full Audio
Full, unedited audio from Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s appearance at our TribLive breakfast on Wednesday morning. Dewhurst discusses the coming budget crisis, the Arizona immigration law and other current issues in Texas politics.
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Health care
A Conversation with David Dewhurst
For the ninth event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the lieutenant governor about the budget shortfall, state-federal tensions, immigration, why he doesn’t release his taxes, and his future plans. We’ve provided the conversation with the lite guv in three forms: full video, full audio and a transcript.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: The Six-Month Stats
Last week we celebrated our half-year birthday — and what we’ve learned from then until now is truly mind-blowing, beginning with the information we’ve gleaned about the size of our audience (huge), where they come from (everywhere), and what areas of the site they like best (data).
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Higher Education
TribBlog: Diane Wouldn’t
Barack Obama will apparently name his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, once again bypassing UT Law grad Diane Wood, who has now been on the president’s short list twice.
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TribBlog: Julián Castro in the Times Mag
The young mayor of San Antonio gets his global 15 minutes this weekend in a glowing 4,600-word New York Times Sunday Magazine profile.
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A Conversation with Jerry Patterson and Hector Uribe
As part of the Tribune’s inaugural College Tour stop, the land commissioner of Texas and his Democratic opponent sat down side by side on the Texas Tech University campus to talk about the fate of the Christmas Mountains, coastal erosion, long-term care for veterans and the portfolio of issues that each of them wants to manage for the next four years.
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Demographics
TribBlog: An Immigration Reform Push After All
At tonight’s Rose Garden celebration of Cinco de Mayo, Barack Obama said he intended to begin work on “comprehensive immigration reform” this year, even though many administration observers predicted the issue was too controversial to tackle following the bloody battle over health care reform legislation.
