The proverbial fat lady hasn’t sung yet, but she is backstage, warming up. And Texas lawmakers haven’t completed work on any of the legislation they came to enact.
2014 elections
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Politics
Politics Among the Elephants
The finance primaries started this week and the special session has another week to run, but the season’s first skirmishes among Texas Republicans are starting to appear.
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Energy
Railroad Commission Chairman Mulls Future
Barry Smitherman, the chairman of the Railroad Commission and former chairman of the Public Utility Commission, has earned praise as a smart and competent regulator. But he is also ambitious, and speculation is rife that he will make a bid for attorney general.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Texans Favor Cruz Over Perry in 2016
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz starts as the Texas favorite in a fantasy 2016 Republican primary for president, well ahead of Gov. Rick Perry and a number of other big-name candidates in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Early in Election Cycle, 2014 Ballot is All Red
The 2014 election cycle is shaping up as a busy one, with open seats across the statewide ballot. Republicans are lining up fast for those spots, but so far, the Democratic side of the ballot is empty.
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Politics
Redistricting is Harder Than It Looked at First
Texas lawmakers set out to do a quick fix on the state’s political maps. They soon found out there was nothing quick about it.
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Politics
The Never-Ending Story
Politics is fast. Redistricting is slow. A rare set of openings has candidates wrestling for advantage at the same time that redistricting debates are raising some of the same questions that stalled the 2012 primaries.
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Politics
Combs’ Exit Spurs a Political Stampede
The comptroller’s announcement that she won’t seek re-election prompted a flurry of declarations of interest, which in turn prompted other flurries, and so on. In the minds of Texas politicians, it’s already 2014.
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Economy
Newsreel: Special Session, Redistricting, 2014 Elections
This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: Now that the regular legislative session is over and the special session is under way, the focus has turned to who may be running for office in 2014, and to another round of redistricting.
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Agenda Texas: Post-Session Horse Race Begins
On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: Texas lawmakers may still be hanging around the Capitol for a special legislative session, but their minds are wandering toward 2014.
