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The Midday Brief: July 21, 2010
Posted inState Government
The Brief: July 21, 2010
Hispanic Republicans of Texas made its public debut Tuesday. Even the group’s leaders are even willing to admit that the political atmosphere could be friendlier.
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Courting Hispanics: The GOP
In the first installment of a three-part series, Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune looks at a new Republican effort to recruit, train and fund Hispanic candidates.
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Higher Education
Hopwood 2.0
A court case involving two University of Texas applicants who believe they were denied admission because they’re white threatens to reinvigorate an ideological skirmish that peaked in the late 1990s. The first lawsuit of its kind brought against a university since a pair of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 2003, Fisher v. Texas has observers everywhere wondering if the state’s troubled history with race-based admissions makes it the ideal incubator for the next round of affirmative action battles.
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Interactive: Campaign Cash
See how much money state-level candidates raised, spent, borrowed and have on hand with our interactive list, which allows you to sort, filter and download their mid-year reports.
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Public Education
TribBlog: Merit Pay and the “Black Box”
In the latest clash between the Houston Independent School District and those who question its use of “value-added data” to grade and sometimes fire teachers, state Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr., D-Houston, grilled an HSID representative at Tuesday’s Senate Education Committee hearing over what he decried as a transparency issue for the district.
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State Government
On the Records: Official Millionaires
More than a dozen state officials have at least $1 million in campaign money — and many of them face nominal financial competition this fall.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Juárez’s Outgoing Mayor Mulls Future
Jose Reyes Ferriz on what he’ll do next, why his successor isn’t corrupt and why the violence in his crime-ridden city will continue.
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Interactive: Annotated Court Documents
A federal appeals case involving race-based admissions at University of Texas at Austin threatens to reinvigorate an ideological skirmish of the late 1990s. Fisher v. Texas — the first lawsuit of its kind brought against a university since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pair of landmark decisions in 2003 — has observers across the country wondering if the state’s troubled history with race-based admissions have made it the ideal incubator for the next round of affirmative action battles.
