Challenger Jason Isaac, after raising nothing last year, garnered about $169,000 in six months to help him unseat Democratic incumbent state Rep. Partick Rose, D-Dripping Springs.
TribBlog: Stronger Than Advertised
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2010: Ciro’s Tantrum? [Updated]
A clip of U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, in which he apparently flares up at a constituent questioning him on health care, is making the rounds in the conservative blogosphere.
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TribBlog: TEA’s Scott “Happy to Scrap” Projection Measure [Updated]
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has been taking heat for ducking questions from reporters and a legislator regarding the Texas Projection Measure, the magic formula that last year suddenly moved thousands of Texas schools into higher state rating categories with little underlying achievement gain by students. He finally took questions from the Tribune, walking a fine line between defending the formula’s much-maligned statistical validity and saying it wasn’t his idea in the first place and, as he put it, “I’m happy to scrap it” if legislators and other critics have a big problem with it.
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The Brief: July 12, 2010
An end to the Gulf oil spill may be in sight. (No, really.)
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Criminal Justice
Age of Innocence
More than 120 college students worked 12,300 hours-plus on Innocence Project of Texas cases from 2007 to 2009, according to the Task Force on Indigent Defense. As student participation has increased, so have exonerations.
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Demographics
Charles Bowden: The TT Interview
Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields, on how he keeps his sanity, when the narco-wars will end and Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s Pandora’s box.
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Energy
Alternating Current
Since 1999, when then-Gov. George Bush signed a law that deregulated the Texas electricity market, a debate has raged about whether and how much the move has benefitted ordinary Texans. Who’s right?
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Health care
High Prescribers
A Houston psychiatrist who uses clinically controversial brain scans to diagnose everything from anxiety to marital discord. A Plano music therapist who believes his Peruvian pan flute tunes cure mental illness. And a Beaumont child psychologist reprimanded for continuing to prescribe to a proven drug abuser. These physicians have written more prescriptions for potent antipsychotic drugs to the state’s neediest patients than any other doctors in Texas.
