The Brief: April 18, 2014
Trying to fend off his strongest challenger in years, longtime U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall is calling on his friends once again to help him raise money. Full Story
The latest Ted Cruz news from The Texas Tribune.
Trying to fend off his strongest challenger in years, longtime U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall is calling on his friends once again to help him raise money. Full Story
The grand jury investigation into Rick Perry's veto of funding for the Public Integrity Unit has drawn new national attention to the outgoing Texas governor who is weighing a return to the presidential sweepstakes. Full Story
Playing to the base trumped any middle ground in a hotly anticipated clash between two rising stars in their respective parties. Full Story
Julián Castro and Dan Patrick square off this evening in a San Antonio television studio in their long-awaited debate over immigration. Here are some things to watch for. Full Story
A gunman killed three fellow soldiers and later killed himself Wednesday afternoon at Fort Hood, an incident which invariably brought back memories of the mass shooting on the military base in November 2009 that claimed 13 lives. Full Story
The Dallas Morning News has taken another look at wage disparities between men and women, this time expanding the focus to look at trends across the country and not just in Texas. Full Story
The spill of as much as 168,000 gallons of fuel oil into Galveston Bay has crews working hard to avoid lasting impacts on a crucial shipping channel as well as an ecologically sensitive area of the Texas coast. Full Story
With equal pay emerging as the single biggest issue this week in the contest for governor, the Tribune has taken a deep look at pay disparities across state government. Full Story
The issue of equal pay dominated the discussion again in the gubernatorial contest on Wednesday. Full Story
The widely panned attempt by two Greg Abbott surrogates to push a GOP alternative to legislation to address the pay gap between men and women has brought outreach to female voters back into the spotlight in the contest for governor. Full Story
What was originally planned as the first head-to-head encounter of the Republican runoff race for lite guv will now be a solo appearance by David Dewhurst. His opponent, Dan Patrick, announced late Monday afternoon that he was withdrawing from the debate. Full Story
Gov. Rick Perry was the first prominent Texas politician to grab the Tea Party wave. Ted Cruz was next, winning a U.S. Senate seat in 2013. Is state Sen. Dan Patrick next in line? Full Story
The rightward tilt of the Texas Senate has one of its more hallowed traditions — the two-thirds rule — in danger of going the way of the dodo. Full Story
On this week's edition of WFAA-TV's Inside Texas Politics, I talked with host Jason Whitely and Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Bud Kennedy about Gov. Rick Perry's presidential prospects, several runoff contests and more. Full Story
If the University of Texas System regents tap Gov. Rick Perry's reported favorite, Kyle Janek, as their next chancellor, they won't get pushback from the president of the system's flagship campus. Full Story
Ted Cruz's positioning for the next stage of his political career was the common thread in Monday's news coverage of Texas' junior senator. Full Story
A GOP primary contest that rewarded many of the most conservative candidates on the ballot has the national media sizing up the continued strength of the Tea Party in Texas. Full Story
Some questions got answered in Tuesday's primary contests as the conversation now shifts to the May runoff elections and to the November general elections. Full Story
Texans are much more optimistic about the direction of the state than the nation as a whole, according to the final installment of findings from the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Full Story
The times they are a-changin' on Texans' attitudes toward marijuana, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Full Story