Visit any campaign web site and you’ll find social and new media tools being used to get the message out. Journalists are using some of those same tools, but the candidates they cover aren’t happy about it. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune.
Twitter Trouble
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Health care
Rural Doctors in Their Own Words
Rural health care providers in West Texas talk about the unique challenges they face in treating their patients.
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Transportation
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 10
It’s the first TribCast of the new year. Evan, Ross, Elise and Ben discuss the finalized ballots for statewide races, whether the transportation issue will drive voters and the possibility of making this red state’s blue dot less blue.
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Transportation
HuTube: The KBH “Roads” Ad Check
An analysis of the claims in Team Kay’s latest television ad includes a true claim and a distortion, according to Dallas television station WFAA-TV.
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State Government
Ads Infinitum: Hutchison Releases “Hook’Em” Ad
A burnt-orange view of “Roads.”
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State Government
TribBlog: Fair Game
State Sen. John Whitmire didn’t break the law by spending $90,000 in campaign funds on sports tickets, the Texas Ethics Commission finds.
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State Government
The Brief: January 6, 2010
KERA to Debra Medina: Come and knock on our door. We’ve been waiting for you…
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Health care
No Country For Health Care, Part 3: Shrinking Rural Ranks
It’s no time to be an advocate for rural health care. Rural lawmakers say they’re consistently outnumbered and under-represented — and that redistricting will only make matters worse.
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State Government
Things that Make You Go Hmm…
It’s going to be a noisy start to the year for Republicans, who have an unusual number of primary challengers to incumbents. Democrats, meanwhile, are making a weak play for political control in the next decade.
