At Thursday’s TribLive conversation, state Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, offered his take on issues he’d face if elected to Congress next year, including same-sex marriage, Afghanistan, taxing the rich and health reform.
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Bitter Battle Over Same-Sex Health Care Benefits Divides El Paso
El Paso Mayor John Cook and two City Council members face a recall election over the city’s controversial decision to extend health care benefits to unmarried domestic partners of city workers — gay and straight.
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Politics
The Skinny: James Leininger
This weekend, the San Antonio physician and prolific donor to conservative candidates and causes hosts a Hill Country gathering for Gov. Rick Perry and some of his evangelical supporters. Who is Leininger? Here’s a primer.
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Health care
Under Scrutiny, Perry Walks Back HPV Decision
With his lengthy record as governor under intense new scrutiny, Rick Perry is seeking to defuse the controversy around one of his most controversial decisions: his 2007 executive order requiring all girls to be vaccinated against HPV, the principal cause of cervical cancer.
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Politics
Facing Criticism, Perry Steps Back on Gay Marriage, States’ Rights
Gov. Rick Perry, taking flak from social conservatives, took a step back from his laissez-faire approach to New York’s gay marriage law on Thursday. Now he says it threatens the definition of marriage everywhere, including Texas.
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Health care
Video: Perry Says Fear of a Default Are Overblown
Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he isn’t worried that a failure to increase the nation’s debt ceiling would trigger an economic catastrophe. He also says that it should be up to the states to decide whether abortion is illegal — or legal.
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Health care
Perry Says Default Fears Are Overblown
Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he isn’t worried that a failure to increase the nation’s debt ceiling would trigger an economic catastrophe. He also says that it should be up to the states to decide whether abortion is illegal — or legal.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Root profiles conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan, Aaronson on the Senate’s flare-up over an airport groping ban, Grissom on some twisted logic in the state’s same-sex marriage laws, Murphy and Macrander expand and refresh our public employee salary database, yours truly with the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll results on politics, issues, the state’s finances, and race, Ramshaw’s report on how some of the governor’s former aides now represent clients who want more money in the state budget, M. Smith on last-minute efforts to save education legislation that didn’t make it through the process, Tan reports on efforts to finish the state budget before the session ends on Monday, and Dehn with the video week in review: The best of our best from May 9 to 13, 2011.
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State Government
What Makes a Man (or Woman) on a Marriage License?
In a state that bans same-sex marriage, it would seem to be easy to know who can legally marry. Texas county clerks will tell you it is not — at least when it comes to the issue of transgendered applicants.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
Immigration and Economy Top Concerns in UT/TT Poll
The most important problems facing the country are economic, while immigration and border security are the most important problems facing the state, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.