State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, will be hiking, not running, in 2010.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Stiles and Thevenot collaborate on the salaries paid to superintendents, and even compare them on price per student… Ramsey’s look at redistricting and next year’s elections… Aguilar’s report on jails, brought to you by the federal agency that’s in the ag business… Rapoport’s peek at the power behind Texas pre-kindergarten programs… Smith’s conversation with Dan Patrick, in three parts… Grissom’s narrative on a circular immigration and deportation route financed by two governments… Ramshaw finds doctors agreeing on public policy and split on strategy and tactics… Hu’s latest Stump Interrupted puts the camera on Farouk Shami… Hamilton’s story on two retired cops who are taking on cargo theft in Texas… And Kreighbaum and Stiles pop open the itineraries of your folks in Congress. The best of our best from December 12 to 18, 2009.
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Dan Patrick on His Future
The Republican state senator from Houston on whether he wants to run for statewide office in Texas.
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Dan Patrick on Rick vs. Kay
The state senator from Houston and radio talk show host explains why he’s for Governor Perry in the Republican primary but not against Senator Hutchison.
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An Interview with Dan Patrick
The full twenty minutes with the Republican state senator from Houston, who talks power, politics and why he loves life in the Lege.
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Dan Patrick on the Two-thirds Rule
The Republican state senator from Houston explains why the longstanding parliamentary tradition is “arbitrary” — and why his party should better exercise its power.
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Politics
The Charter School Waiting Game
Nearly 130,000 students attend Texas charter schools, but 40,000 more are waiting to get in.
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State Government
2010: Dan Patrick Staying Put, Endorsing Combs
Forget what I said on this week’s TribCast, parroting the chatter around the Capitol: The state senator from Houston is not considering a primary challenge to his fellow Republican, Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs.
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TribBlog: A Bolly-“Good Business Decision”
Dan Patrick is changing the programming at his Dallas station exclusively to Indian music.
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Criminal Justice
Shifting Away from the Death Penalty
Texas lawmakers got their chance Tuesday to ask questions about the recent changes on the Texas Forensic Science Commission. Governor Rick Perry replaced several members of the commission – including its chair just days before it was to hear a report that questioned the science used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham for the arson deaths of his three children.