Your morning reading.
The Midday Brief: November 17, 2009
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Transportation
HuTube: The Transportation Funding Quagmire
Governor Rick Perry admits the state needs more money to pay for new roads. But he doesn’t agree with the Texas Senate Transportation Committee Chairman on how to pay for them.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: Your Turn to Make Word Clouds
An easy guide to visualizing tweets.
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Energy
The Brief: November 17, 2009
Two unrelated notes for this Tuesday morning: The National Weather Service says that cool — even freezing — temperatures are expected throughout the state and former Vice President Dick Cheney is in town.
Posted inState Government
The GOP Primary in 140 Characters
What the Twitter contest between Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina tells us about their campaigns for governor.
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Demographics
Detaining Care, Part Two: Health Scare
“Barely adequate.” “Haphazard at best.” That’s how investigators describe the quality of care at immigrant detention centers all over Texas.
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Public Education
TribBlog: Imagine the Controversy
A for-profit company hopes to get approval to start two charter schools in Texas. Thursday’s SBOE meeting will set the precedent for dealing with this murkier side of the charter school system.
Posted inState Government
A Candidate to Dye For
Farouk Shami, a hair stylist turned hair products entrepreneur, will announce his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor this week.
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Texas Weekly: The Texas Way
This is reform? No, it is insanity. It is certainly not the Texas way of doing business. These Democratic policies will greatly hurt the state of Texas.
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Audio: Money, Politics and the Supremes
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the use of corporate expenditures. And a new national poll released Monday by the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs takes an in-depth look at how the country feels about money in politics. Including how corporate money should be used in a campaign. KUT’s Ben Philpott reports how federal campaign finance could change after that ruling.
