“I don’t care about going to Washington, D.C.”
Rick Perry on Whether He’ll Run for President
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Rick Perry on George W. Bush
“I think George W. Bush will go down as a very, very good president. Approaching great? I don’t know yet…”
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Demographics
Rick Perry on Mexico
“The fact is, we shouldn’t have to be doing anything. The federal government’s responsibility has always been to operate the security mechanism along the border.”
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Rick Perry on the States vs. the Federal Government
“The federal government was created to be an agent of the states, not the other way around. I think that is a very, very good thing.”
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Rick Perry on the Texas Budget
“In 2003, we had a $10 billion budget shortfall. We came into office and we addressed it, I will suggest to you, the same way we will address it in 2011.”
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Grissom on the fall of Norma Chávez; M. Smith and Ramsey on the runoffs, the results, and the aftermath; Hu on the Tea Party’s birthday party; Thevenot and Stiles on the path between schools and prisons; Ramshaw on prosecutors’ reaction to helping hands from Austin; Hamilton on self-appointed lawyers; Galbraith on property rights and power lines; Aguilar and Grissom sit down with the mayor of Juárez to talk about his crime-ridden city; Kraft on telling the stories of Texans and other Americans who died in Vietnam; Ramsey on slots and horses and casinos; and Hamilton goes on a field trip with Jim Hightower to hear the history of populism. The best of our best from April 5 to 9, 2010.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Rick Perry, Newsweek and the Trib
Now it can be told: The Governor of Texas is on the cover of this week’s issue of the venerable newsmagazine as part of its first-ever collaboration with The Texas Tribune.
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State Government
TribBlog: Jim Hightower Tells a Story
He may be able to address complex issues in his two-minute radio broadcasts, but some of Jim Hightower’s distinctive storytelling begs for more time.
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Economy
TribBlog: Texas Unemployment Unchanged
Unemployment in Texas remained at 8.2 percent for the fifth consecutive month in March. According to the Texas Workforce Commission, 995,200 people were looking for work last month.
