In this week’s TribCast, Ross, Elise, Ben and Brandi discuss the issues framing Texas politics this week — education, immigration and campaign finance numbers.
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 37
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Ads Infinitum: Nothing for Texas?
In new web videos released today, both gubernatorial campaigns are accusing the other of failing to bring anything to the table that benefits Texas.
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State Government
TribBlog: Musical Chairs
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has shuffled the chairs in the Texas Senate.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Cornyn Says No to Kagan
The senator says Kagan has not made clear she would “protect the fundamental rights written in our constitution.”
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Public Education
The Brief: July 14, 2010
Don’t look now, but things just got substantive in the governor’s race.
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Demographics
Floundering and Flourishing
Depending on whom you ask, anywhere between 100,000 to half a million Juarenses have left Mexico since drug violence exploded in 2008. In a tragic irony, neighboring El Paso is flourishing economically as Juárez descends further into terror.
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Demographics
Blood Lines: Prosperity Amid Peril
As the savage drug war rages on in Juárez, both the fun and the business have fled, bringing to El Paso, its sleepy sister city, a vibrant new culture and an economic boost. In a tragic irony, a measure of El Paso’s recent fortune results directly from the suffering of Juárez. But experts warn that El Paso leaders rely on Juárez’s decline at their own risk. Ultimately, as Juárez goes, so goes El Paso, they say.
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Howard 1, Neil 0
A local battle over politics and access to the media has led one candidate to leave his weekday spot on sports radio. Dan Neil had been a co-host of ESPN Radio’s morning show in Austin. But the Republican’s bid for a State House seat will leave him on the sidelines because of equal access rules. Ben Philpott is covering this November’s elections for KUT News and the Tribune.
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Criminal Justice
The Long Arm of the Law
Curbing the practice of barratry — “ambulance chasing,” in the vernacular — has prompted an uneasy alliance between tort reformers and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association: They agree on reform … just not on the form it should take.
