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The Midday Brief: November 20, 2009
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KBH Internet Ad
Kay Bailey Hutchison doesn’t attack Rick Perry in her television ads (which just started today), but her Internet advertising is a different proposition. Here, she’s deconstructing his first TV spot. His is an attack on her; she’s returning the volley.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Supreme Court Won’t Review Bonfire Ruling
The Texas Supreme Court today freed Texas A&M University from further liability in the decade-old bonfire case.
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Economy
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.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: Tracking Unemployment
Analyzing unemployment in Texas: What would Google do?
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Politics
The Brief: November 20, 2009
Ready to welcome U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry into your living room?
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Health care
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.
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State Government
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.
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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.
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Health care
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.
