The Texas Supreme Court today freed Texas A&M University from further liability in the decade-old bonfire case.
TribBlog: Supreme Court Won’t Review Bonfire Ruling
TribBlog: Unemployment Rises in Texas
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in October, up from 5.2 percent a year ago.
On the Records: Tracking Unemployment
Analyzing unemployment in Texas: What would Google do?
The Brief: November 20, 2009
Ready to welcome U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry into your living room?
Hospital War
As lawmakers in D.C. hammer out a health care reform bill, physician-owned specialty hospitals — a quarter of which are in Texas — face an uncertain fate.
Debtors’ Treadmill, Part Two: Political Payday
Groups that offer high-interest, short-term consumer loans and want to avoid state regulation contributed more than $1.4 million to Texas politicians over the past nine years, Texas Ethics Commission records show.
The Farouk Show
Farouk Shami’s red-carpeted gubernatorial candidacy coming-out party was more like a scene out of Fashion Week than anything Texas Democrats typically put on. But the stagecraft and the statewide ad buy that begins today are aimed to quell doubts about whether he’s making a serious run.
Hospital War: Voices From The Physician-Owned Hospital Debate
Texas Institute for Surgery President Debbie Hay and Dan Waldmann, Tenet Healthcare’s vice president for government relations, offer competing views on proposed restrictions on physician-owned specialty hospitals.
HuTube: Under the Farouk Tent
Couldn’t make it to the big tent for Democrat Farouk Shami’s gubernatorial announcement? This is your pass to the party.


