Even if none of the remaining incumbents gets beat or loses, this will be the biggest freshman class over all — legislative and congressional officeholders combined — since 1983, when 63 newbies came in.
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Energy
TCEQ Chairman Plans Meeting With New EPA Regional Chief
Bryan Shaw, the TCEQ chairman, told an Austin conference he has already had two “productive” calls with Ron Curry, the new regional head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The two plan to meet within about a month, Shaw said.
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Faircloth Ad: Eiland Lives in Austin, Not Galveston
In a new TV ad, Republican Wayne Faircloth says state Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, actually lives in Austin and says he can afford his house there because “he’s a trial lawyer who sues businesses.”
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Lack of Competition Keeps Voters at Home
Get-out-the-vote efforts dot the Texas landscape, from partisan efforts focused on getting one party or another out to the polls, to nonpartisan campaigns that push for civic participation. Then there’s the effort made by the state’s top election official, Secretary of State Hope Andrade. <!– <!– Audio: Ben Philpott’s story for KUT News“We hope that everyone […]
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Texas Weekly Newsreel: Tom DeLay, Debates, Medicaid
This week in the Newsreel: Upcoming debates, voter registration, medicaid expansion and campaign finance reports.
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DeLay’s Appeal Hinges on What “Funds” Are
Attorneys for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Sugar Land Republican convicted two years ago on conspiracy and money-laundering charges, took his appeal to court on Wednesday.
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Inside Intelligence: About Those Debates…
For this week’s nonscientific survey of politics and government insiders, we asked about the debates for president and the U.S. Senate, and about how the presidential election might affect Texas contests now an in the near future.
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Higher Education
Guest Column: Colleges Should Consider Race in Admissions
The law should allow all universities to pursue diverse classes of excellent students, for the sake of the students and the quality of their educations, for the sake of a society still striving to bestow opportunity more equally across its many populations, and for the sake of healthy businesses and all of the benefits they contribute to society.
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Higher Education
Guest Column: Race Has No Place in College Admissions
It has now become clear that race-preference admission programs typically do not operate to the preferred student’s advantage. Their relatively poor qualification — of which they are often unaware — usually leads to relatively poor performance, the bottom portion of the class and an increased dropout rate.
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Higher Education
Supreme Court Set to Hear Oral Arguments on UT’s Admissions Policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin, a lawsuit related to the use of race in university admissions policies.
