Roll your own political videos … interactive travel maps of your federal and state legislators … scary movies, to keep the kids out of the border’s scary drug wars … puttting dropouts back in class … rates squeezing families out of home health care … how many lobby and trade associations do teachers in Texas need? … enjoying the silence before an expected two-month siege of political advertising … the dean of Texas political writers gets shut out of the gubernatorial debates … and we have an interactive database of the state’s best and worst public schools. The best of our best for a short news week, from December 19 to 26, 2009.
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Posted inState Government
HuTube: A Multi-Platform Look Back
The multimedia/social media side of the TT operation has various projects and enterprises to connect you with in case you missed them over the past seven weeks.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: We Wish You a Merry Tribmas
Here’s what to expect from us between now and January 4.
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Politics
Grin and Bexar It
How are San Antonio Democrats reacting to the party’s embezzlement scandal?
Posted inState Government
An Interview with Leticia Van de Putte
It’s been a rough few days for Bexar County Democrats: Party officials announced last week that a former official had embezzled more than $200,000 from the party. Just about every elected Democrat in the county held a press conference today to say that the party has a plan to pay it back — and that none of this will affect the March primary — or their candidates’ chances in next November’s general election. Ben Philpott, who is reporting on the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune, talked with State Senator Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, about the scandal, about her party’s prospects, and her own.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: An App-y New Year
A rundown of the data we’ve published so far — and a look ahead.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Border Mayor Escapes Mexico Shootout
Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster might have to change his tune about his idyllic border home after this week. Foster was having lunch Tuesday with Mexican officials across the border in Piedras Negras when a gunmen started spraying the place with bullets.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Texas Grows
We added more people this year than any other state — more than Florida, Arizona, California, Nevada and Colorado combined.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: December 23, 2009
A major chapter of U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s fight in DC may be drawing to an end.
