Political campaigns can be cunning and crafty affairs where candidates are cautiously presented and positions are carefully tailored to voters. But the contenders are humans, and policy is sometimes personal.
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Politics
Abbott: Davis is “Obama’s Ideological Twin”
Asked about a Wendy Davis television ad focused on his dissenting opinion in a 1993 case involving a woman who was raped by a door-to-door salesman, Greg Abbott said, “the opinion speaks for itself.”
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Health care
The Brief: July 31, 2014
This week’s House committee hearing in which leading officials in charge of executing the plan said they never asked for Guard troops revealed another aspect of Rick Perry’s border action, according to the Houston Chronicle’s Patrick Svitek.
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Energy
The Brief: July 28, 2014
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Bob Ray Sanders is pushing back against one major tenet of the conventional wisdom surrounding the race for governor: Wendy Davis needs to maintain a healthy separation between her and President Obama.
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Higher Education
In McRaven or Fisher, a New Kind of Chancellor
The two candidates to replace outgoing UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa — Admiral William McRaven and Dallas Fed Chief Richard Fisher — are neither a product of state politics nor of academia.
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Economy
Video: During Austin Visit, Obama Discusses Economy
President Obama spoke about the state of the nation’s economy July 10 during a visit to Austin. Watch full video of his remarks here.
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Politics
Analysis: Not Bad, for a Lame Duck Governor
The governor is coming to the end of his 14-year reign at the top of state governor, but Rick Perry is not showing the normal tendencies of a political short-timer.
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Health care
The Brief: July 11, 2014
Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott has put a price tag on the cost to Texas taxpayers of the surge of unaccompanied minors across the border.
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Newsreel: Obama in Texas, Powers out as UT President
This week in Newsreel: President Obama came to Texas and talked border issues with Gov. Rick Perry and Bill Powers is out as UT president come June.
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Demographics
Amid Immigration Controversy, Obama Focuses on Economy
In a speech in downtown Austin on Thursday, President Obama largely avoided discussion of the ongoing immigration troubles in Texas, and instead talked about economic progress made under his watch.