For the seventh event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the chair of the Texas Transportation Commission on the size of the road funding hole, the toll-versus-tax debate and whether the governor she once served as chief of staff is really not running for president.
A Conversation with Deirdre Delisi
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Criminal Justice
The Big Stall
Since his appointment, the alternately amiable and peevish, typically cowboy-boot-shod chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission has comported himself as a virtuoso of the bureaucratic dawdle. With the commission’s investigation of the now-notorious Cameron Todd Willingham case “still in its infancy,” John Bradley has this to say about when it might conclude its review: “However long it takes, that’s however long it takes.”
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Demographics
Peace Bend?
Even as violence near the border rages and security becomes a more pressing issue, discussions about unifying Big Bend National Park with Mexico may be gaining momentum.
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What’s in a Name?
Ask Gov. Rick Perrys chief spokesman, Mark Miner, a question on any issue these days and the answer will invariably begin, Liberal trial lawyer Bill White
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State Government
2010: Wentworth Says It Ain’t So
Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, says he isn’t going anywhere. A hot rumor has him quitting office or giving up his bid for reelection to pursue other ventures, but the senator says there’s nothing to it.
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KBH on Financial Reform
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was tapped to deliver this week’s Republican address. The topic: why the Democrats’ financial reform bill should be defeated.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
E. Smith interviews Gov. Rick Perry for the Trib and Newsweek, Philpott dissects the state’s budget mess in a weeklong series, Hamilton looks at whether Bill White is or was a trial lawyer, M. Smith finds experts all over the state anxiously watching a court case over who owns the water under our feet, Aguilar reports on the battle between Fort Stockton and Clayton Williams Jr. over water in West Texas, Ramshaw finds a population too disabled to get on by itself but not disabled enough to get state help and Miller spends a day with a young man and his mother coping with that situation, Ramsey peeks in on software that lets the government know whether its e-mail messages are getting read and who’s reading what, a highway commissioner reveals just how big a hole Texas has in its road budget, Grissom does the math on the state’s border cameras and learns they cost Texans about $153,800 per arrest, and E. Smith interviews Karen Hughes on the difference between corporate and political P.R. — and whether there’s such a thing as “Obama Derangement Syndrome.” The best of our best from April 19 to April 23, 2010.
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Higher Education
TribBlog: UT System Leaving Northern Mexico
The University of Texas System is recalling students, faculty and staff participating in university-sponsored programs in seven northern Mexican states.
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State Government
On the Records: A Cloudy Governor’s Race
What do “word clouds” tell us about the rhetoric in the governor’s race.
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State Government
TribBlog: More Time for Willingham
Forensic Science Commission says consideration of Willingham case “still in its infancy.”
