Today, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie announced that he will not seek another term.
TDP Chair Boyd Richie Will Not Seek Another Term
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Tan on the budget standoff between the House and Senate, Ramsey on budget cuts that cost us money, Philpott on Hispanics and redistricting, Stiles visualizes speed limits by state, Grissom on a liberal social justice organizer who became a conservative hero, M. Smith on even more student social security numbers at risk, Ramshaw on whether family planning equals abortion, Aguilar on what circumcision has to do with citizenship, Murphy on how much Texas university adminstrators are paid, Hamilton on the latest in the higher ed reform saga and Galbraith on Texas energy lessons from the 1970s: The best of our best content from April 4 to 8, 2011.
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Demographics
DOT Announces Cross-Border Trucking Provisions
The U.S. Department of Transportation released preliminary details today on a program that would again open up U.S. roadways to Mexican truckers.
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Economy
Word Cloud: House Budget Debate
Data don’t lie: Amendments dominated the House floor last Friday as Representatives debated the budget bill. A visualization of the House transcript reveals “amendment” was the most used word.
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Guides
Texplainer: What Happens To Texas If The Feds Shut Down?
Not much, unless you’re one of the state’s 130,000 civilian federal employees — or you’re scrambling to get your taxes done.
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What A Hospital Tax Could Look Like In Texas
Use our app to see what hospitals would have to pay in taxes, and whether they’d come out ahead or behind in total revenue, if one version of a “quality assurance fee,” or hospital tax, were on the books.
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Higher Education
Interview: Speaker Joe Straus on the Budget and Session
House Speaker Joe Straus was interviewed eariler this week by Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, government prof and half of the Tribune’s polling team, about the session so far, the budget, gambling, rewriting state taxes, federal stimulus money and what he thinks about the tempest over research and teaching at the state’s top universities.
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State Government
The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for April 8, 2011
Your afternoon reading: Budget cut-induced furor; an ongoing controversy at UT; House approval for school board disclosures.
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Criminal Justice
The Week in Texas Politics Recap: Apr. 4 to Apr. 8
No time to follow every twist and turn of the Texas Legislature? We’ve made it easier for you with our weekly recaps of the action under the dome.
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The Brief: Top Texas News for April 8, 2011
It’s no government shutdown, to be sure, but Texas has run into its own bout of fiscal drama: leaked budget documents.
