The primary matchup between perennial opponents state Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston, and former state Rep. Borris Miles is going where most haven’t publicly gone before: the urinal.
2010: Borris Miles Keeps it Flowing
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The Midday Brief: February 11, 2010
Beck and Medina, Wilson remembered and the rest of your afternoon reading.
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2010: Medina Responds to 9/11 Flap
The GOP gubernatorial candidate tries to get out in front of the Glenn Beck-fueled controversy.
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2010: Debra Medina, Glenn Beck, and 9/11 “Truth”
Glenn Beck thinks Debra Medina’s comments on 9/11 just steered her campaign onto the fast-track “back to 4 percent.”
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Demographics
The Brief: February 11, 2010
Charlie Wilson dies, sales tax revenues are down and an April runoff still looks likely.
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Mind the Gap
The Texas Department of Health and Human Services is holding a public hearing today to present proposed cuts to its budget and to hear feedback. The five-percent reductions are in response to a request for state agenices to slash costs in light of a projected multibillion-dollar state budget shortfall. Ben Philpott, who’s covering Texas politics and policy for KUT News and the Tribune, says lawmakers have also started looking for ways to increase revenues.
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Public Education
Tom Leppert: The TT Interview
The Dallas mayor left a hugely successful private sector career to lead the country’s ninth-largest city through an economic meltdown and the aftermath of a City Hall corruption scandal. And he doesn’t regret a minute of it. Here, he talks about fighting a sky-high crime rate, how he keeps party politics from his office, and every urban area’s Achilles’ heel: education.
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Audio: An Interview with Tom Leppert
Emily Ramshaw sat down with the Dallas mayor late last month.
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Demographics
Off the Bus
The U.S. Border Patrol has stopped a controversial program that shipped illegal immigrants back to Mexico through the tiny Texas border town of Presidio — for now.
