Democrat Tom Schieffer dropped out of the gubernatorial race, saying he’ll endorse Houston Mayor Bill White and hopes other gubernatorial candidates will do the same.
Schieffer’s Out, Will Endorse White
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The Brief: November 23, 2009
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said she wanted to keep fighting the “government takeover of healthcare” — and now she’ll get her chance.
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State Government
Retired, Rehired
No snowbirds here. A growing number of state employees are retiring and coming straight back to work, padding — and in some cases nearly doubling — their state salaries with pension pay-outs.
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Demographics
Soul Search: Dallas churches unite to right historic wrongs
The Dallas church community has vowed to forge 25 partnerships with high-poverty public schools and push for 700 units of housing for the homeless — a down payment on a larger effort to heal wounds left by racism and injustice.
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Economy
Texas Weekly: Reversal of Fortune
We should pay attention to what my old boss, Bob Bullock, used to call the thorns among the roses here in Texas.
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Peace, Love, and Understanding
Earlier this month, Rick Perry helped push a so-called RINO — Republican In Name Only — off the congressional ballot in New York, only to see the Conservative Party candidate he backed lose to a Democrat. But that kind of us-versus-them narrative was missing from the just completed Republican Governor’s Association meeting in Bastrop County.
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Justice Revival: Dallas
Rev. Jim Wallis, a leading progressive preacher and founder of Sojourners, addressed Dallas Christians on Nov. 12, 2009. The social justice movement, he said, “is not about social action. It’s not about politics. It’s about restoring the integrity of the word of God in our lives, our churches, our neighborhoods, our city and our nation.”
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Taking the Middle Ground
Earlier this month Texas Governor Rick Perry helped push a so-called RINO — Republican In Name Only — off the congressional ticket in New York. Only to see the Conservative Party candidate he backed lose to a Democrat. But that kind of “Us vs. Them” — “True Republican vs. Moderate” battle was invisible during the just completed Republican Governor’s Association meeting in Bastrop County.
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State Government
2010: The Texas Tribune Index
The number-crunchers among the Republicans and the Democrats in Texas use election results to get a feel for the political environment in each legislative district. They start with statewide races and then bake in some assumptions about what might happen if they put the right candidates in place. We and other political watchers need the same thing, without the partisan ingredients. So we cooked up the Texas Tribune Index.
