About 60 percent of Texas students who continue their education after high school start out at community colleges, whose payrolls have not been part of our database of public employee salaries — until today. We’ve added in the pay of nearly 20,000 administrators and faculty at seven Texas community colleges and college districts: Houston Community College, Dallas County Community College District, Alamo Colleges, Lone Star College, Austin Community College, Collin College and Tarrant County College. While the median salaries at community colleges are comparable to those of state universities, dramatic differences can be seen at the margins.
Data App: Community College Pay
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Energy
The Trouble With Trucking
Heavy truck traffic, some of it related to the wind industry, has increased sharply across the state in recent years, and it’s taken a heavy toll on rural roadways. To its chagrin, the Texas Department of Transportation has little prospect of recouping repair costs.
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Rock the Mid-Terms?
Mailboxes and the airwaves will be flooded with political ads over the last two weeks of the general election, and much of that final push will be focused on likely voters. As Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, most young people just don’t fall into that category.
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Ads Infinitum: NRCC’s “Chet Edwards’ Real Record”
The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee’s second CD-17 ad strikes a familiar theme: U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards’ support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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TribBlog: Partisan, White, Female, Older Voters Get to Polls Earlier
If you voted today — the first day of early voting for the Nov. 2 elections — you’re probably more partisan, Anglo and a woman, according to a report released by the Center of Public Policy and Political Studies at Austin Community College.
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Ads Infinitum: Greg Abbott’s “Protecting Texans”
The first TV ad from Attorney General Greg Abbott references the accident that left him in a wheelchair — and touts his crime-fighting credentials.
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Ads Infinitum: DCCC’s “Flores: Who Paid?”
The first CD-17 spot from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Republican Bill Flores has stuck taxpayers with a $7.5 million bill.
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TribBlog: King Street Patriots in Court, Again
The Texas Democratic Party takes on the Houston-area Tea Party group for “1960s style” voter intimidation.
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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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2010: Farouk for the Governor
After failing to secure the Democratic nomination for governor, hair care magnate Farouk Shami will be voting for the gubernatorial candidate with the best mane: Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
