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.
Interactive: Campaign Cash
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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.
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Demographics
TribBlog: UH-Downtown Favors DREAM Act
Bill V. Flores, president of University of Houston-Downtown, is joining calls for the passage of the DREAM Act, which clears a path to permanent-residency status for undocumented students.
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The Brief: July 20, 2010
It’s back to back-and-forth in the governor’s race this week.
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Energy
Water, Water Anywhere?
This month, parts of Central Texas will decide how much water will be in the aquifers below the land for the next 50 years. The decisions will affect Dripping Springs, Johnson City, Wimberley and other towns south and west of Austin that rely on groundwater supplies. Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports.
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Higher Education
The “Career” Path
Private, for-profit colleges, which offer professional certificates at a steep cost, have come under fire for peddling big student loans to vulnerable Texans in exchange for credentials of dubious value.
