Kinky to Gilbert: “Give the money back!”
Bill White
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Criminal Justice
Mapping the Money Race
To better understand the geography of the money race, we mapped the candidates’ contributions by city, using graduated symbols to highlight their most lucrative areas. The bubbles in the maps get larger based on the percentage of a candidates’ total take.
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Politics
The Polling Center: It’s a Texas Thing
Texas identity remains alive and well and continues to play a critical role in the state’s politics.
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2010: White’s Way Behind
Former Houston Mayor Bill White has said it won’t be easy to beat a Republican for the Texas governorship. The latest Rasmussen numbers prove it. He’s trailing both Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by double-digits.
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Energy
Riding into Sunset
As the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality prepares for a legislative review next year, one of its ex-commissioners is consulting with environmentalists who are critical of the agency and the Perry administration.
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Who’s Funding the Governor’s Race?
To find the most-common occupations among the thousands of people who’ve donated to the major candidates in the last year, we created word clouds, a visualization technique that boosts the size of words depending on their frequency.
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State Government
The Brief: January 18, 2010
Debra Medina has a dream — and it’s not just to bring a gun into a grocery store.
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Criminal Justice
Data App: Governor’s Race Cash
Search more than $35 million in campaign donations and loans collected by the top candidates in the governor’s race. You can also explore how they spent the money.
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2010: Truth Behind the Tweet
It’s the end of the week. Productivity is down and the need for distraction is up. Luckily, a psychology professor has a tool that could easily fill a political junkie’s afternoon.
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Politics
The Unmentionables
Meet the Democratic candidates for governor that no one’s talking about.