Ramsey on Flintstone truthers, Thevenot on the explosion of “dual-credit” enrollees and the potential sacking of teachers when student test scores don’t measure up, Ramshaw on government-subsidized child care providers with troubled track records, Stiles’s enhanced state employee salary app and new dangerous day care app, Aguilar on our commie trading partner and the cost of being undercounted in the next census, Philpott on the legal wrangling over gay divorce and how social media fanned the flames of Debra Medina’s 9/11 flap, and our roundup of powderkeg party primaries: Hu in HD-20, M. Smith in CD-23, Ramsey in HD-98, Hamilton in HD-127, Grissom HD-76 and HD-78, and Rapoport in SBOE 5. The best of our best from February 15 to 19, 2010.
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State Government
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Chron for Earle
“Their best-known and most effective candidate.”
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State Government
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Star-Telegram for Chavez-Thompson
“[S]he would bring a fresh perspective, a commitment to work with both sides of the aisle and an emphasis on the state’s public schools and higher education…”
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State Government
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Eagle for Kay, White, Gilbert
The Bryan-College Station paper’s editorial board makes its picks.
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Globe-News for KBH and White
The Amarillo paper’s editorial board gets behind the state’s senior U.S. senator and the former Houston mayor.
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Caller-Times for KBH and White
The Corpus Christi newspaper’s editorial board echoes the sentiments of other papers around the state.
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State Government
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Star-Telegram for Kinky
“[O]ffers a vision for how the department can best serve all Texans, as well as the lands and animals entrusted to them.”
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: White Nabs Three More
Editorial boards at the Beaumont, Lubbock, and Marshall papers are backing the former Houston mayor’s run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Kay, Kay, and More Kay
Editorial boards in Beaumont, Lubbock, Marshall and Wichita Falls join their big-city brethren.
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Politics
2010: Perry Up 16 in Newspapers’ Poll
The governor leads the GOP pack with 45 percent, followed by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchsion at 29 and Debra Medina at 17.
