Despite what you may have seen in the media today, Lauren Pierce, president of College Republicans at the University of Texas at Austin, says she really does not have any desire to shoot President Obama.
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Interactive: Presidential Donors by ZIP Code
Want to see where in Texas Gov. Rick Perry, his GOP opponents Mitt Romney and Ron Paul or President Barack Obama have received the most financial support? Explore our visualization of presidential contributions broken down by ZIP code.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Most Voters Don’t Credit Perry for Texas’ Economic Success
Texas voters are more likely to attribute the state’s economic success to its natural resources and long-standing pro-business policies than to Gov. Rick Perry’s leadership, according to the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
Audio: UT/TT Pollster on How Texans Perceive Perry’s Presidential Bid
The Trib’s Thanh Tan kicks of a week of stories on the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune political poll — which shows Herman Cain in a statistical tie with Rick Perry in Texas — by interviewing the poll’s co-director, Jim Henson of the Texas Politics Project.
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Energy
Video: Home Weatherization Assistance Program
Austin Energy received $8 million in federal stimulus funds to weatherize the homes of low income Texans. In this video, Rusty Smith, a home inspector with the utility, explains the benefits of making these energy efficient upgrades.
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Higher Education
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Galbraith and Collier on the drought’s economic impact, Grissom on the latest in the Morton and Skinner cases, Hamilton on university regents’ potential conflicts of interest, Murphy on spending by Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, Philpott on Rick Perry’s plans for Social Security, Ramsey on the dirty little secret about dropouts, Ramshaw on how Perry and his staff downplayed allegations of abuse at state centers for the disabled, Root on Perry’s flirtation with birtherism, M. Smith on GOP candidates making public ed their focus and Tan and Hamilton on why students in Texas illegally get access to state financial aid: The best of our best content from October 24 to 28, 2011.
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Trump: Birther Issue “Good” for Perry in GOP Race
In an interview with Piers Morgan that aired tonight on CNN, Donald Trump said the so-called birther issue is “positive” for Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign.
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After Waffling, Perry Says Obama Was Born Here
Whatever Gov. Rick Perry was doing with the birther issue, he isn’t doing it anymore. Perry now says he has no doubt Obama is a native U.S. citizen.
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Demographics
Maurice Sherif: The TT Interview
The French photographer on why he documented the construction of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and what he learned as he trekked through four states photographing the multi-billion dollar effort.
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On the Records: Obama Finds Four New TX Bundlers
President Barack Obama released an updated list of volunteer fundraisers, known as “bundlers,” who raise money on his behalf. Of the more than 350 bundlers listed, 17 Texas fundraisers have collected more than $2.7 million.
