Three years after voters approved bonds for fixes at state parks, not all of the money has been spent — despite facilities that haven’t been upgraded since the 1930s and recent hurricane damage that hasn’t been repaired.
The Not-So-Great Outdoors
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Debra Medina: The TT Interview
The third-place finisher in this year’s GOP gubernatorial primary on whether she’ll vote for Rick Perry, how she feels about the mosque near Ground Zero and what her reaction to Glenn Beck should have been.
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Higher Education
Data App: Regents Who Give
Over the past decade, the men and women chosen by Rick Perry to serve as regents of the state’s universities have given his campaigns a total of at least $5.8 million, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.
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Interactive: Gov. Perry’s Regent Donors
Texas governors in both political parties over the years have appointed university regents who also were generous political donors. Gov. Rick Perry, who took office in December 2000, is no different. More than half the people he’s selected to lead the state’s public universities have contributed to his political campaigns — some more generously than others. Use this interactive table to explore those donations.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Cross-Border Fire Draws Perry’s Ire
Following a weekend shootout near the Rio Grande in El Paso, Gov. Rick Perry has once again lambasted the Obama administration over border security.
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Politics
2010: Rasmussen: Perry 49, White 41
Republican Gov. Rick Perry maintains an 8-point lead over Democratic challenger Bill White, according to the latest statewide poll by Rasmussen Reports.
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The Brief: Aug. 23, 2010
Politicians, mark your calendars: It’s time to … mark your calendars.
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Public Education
The New Sex Ed
Students are heading back to school this week, and some of them will begin learning about the birds and the bees. The Texas Education Code requires that abstinence be the focus of any sex education curriculum — but as Nathan Bernier of KUT News reports, there are some changes this year to how sex ed is being taught.
