Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, can remain on the November ballot, the state’s 5th Court of Appeals ruled this afternoon. Texas Democrats had sued to remove him, saying his vote in the Virginia elections in 2006 made him ineligible to serve in the Texas Senate.
2010: Birdwell Will Stay on Ballot
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Demographics
The Brief: Aug. 19, 2010
Immigration talk turned away from babies — both the terrorist and anchor variety — and back to figures and data on Wednesday.
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Interactive: July 15 Cash Totals
With the fall political campaigns heating up, candidates and committees last month filed reports with the Texas Ethics Commission listing the total amount of cash they have to spend. Use this table to sort through those records, or select the links to download them in raw data or portable document format.
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State Government
TribBlog: More Trouble In Foster Care
A teenage girl in foster care who collapsed at a Houston-area residential treatment center about a month ago has died.
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Accounts Playable
The 2,694 political committees and campaigns that filed mid-year reports with the Texas Ethics Commission together held $167 million in their accounts, but only 274 of them had more than $100,000 on hand. Our interactive chart tells you who or what they are and how much they’ve banked.
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Higher Education
The Tracks of Our Tiers
It could take years before the seven emerging research universities in Texas (Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas at El Paso) transform themselves into top-tier research campuses — if they do at all. But the state now pays them for demonstrated progress toward that goal, pitting them against one another in competition for limited funds. Officials from all seven will appear before a joint hearing of the House and Senate higher education committees today, seeking to show off progress to lawmakers and to size up where they stand against their peers.
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Demographics
Obstacles in the Path
At a House hearing Wednesday, lawmakers learned that undocumented immigrants have almost no way to earn permanent residency status in the U.S. through employment and that a much-touted system to verify that employees can legally work here is flawed.
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Economy
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 42
In this week’s TribCast, Evan, Ross, Elise and Ben talk ethics and the Texas House, the newly noted $1.3 billion budget deficit and whether terror babies have much of a political impact.
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Health care
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