Is the boiling battle between Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency slowing to a simmer?
Griffin Perry
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The Brief: June 16, 2010
As the dust settled Tuesday, details of the college football kerfuffle-that-wasn’t became a little clearer.
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Forced to Fight, Continued
Texas officials have halted the placement of foster care children at Daystar and have assigned the Houston-area residential treatment center a state monitor following revelations of a staff-instigated “fight club” incident two years ago and a new incident that has come to light this past week: a possible sexual assault of a girl living at the facility.
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The Chair Yields
The ouster of Cathie Adams as the titular head of the Republican Party of Texas was the biggest news at its biennial convention this weekend. There was also open hostility toward Speaker Joe Straus, predictable fretting about a rift between moderates and conservatives and, of course, a laser-like focus on the state GOP’s common enemy: Washington.
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2010: The Third Candidate for Governor
On Saturday, the Libertarian Party of Texas chose Houston attorney Katherine Youngblood Glass to challenge Gov. Rick Perry and Bill White this November.
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2010: “The Tea Party Folks are Like Barbara Jordan”
The humorist, singer, and sometime Democrat Kinky Friedman addressed delegates of the Libertarian Party of Texas yesterday. On his mind: what Debra Medina should have said to Glenn Beck, why the “Tea Party folks are like Barbara Jordan” and sex with horses.
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2010: Carney: It’s Blarney
Dave Carney, general consultant to Gov. Rick Perry, says he had nothing to do with efforts to get the Green Party’s candidates on the Texas ballot.
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The Polling Center: Green Pastures Yield a Small Harvest
The potential Green Party drain of votes away from the Democrats is probably pretty small.
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GOP Convention: The Live Blog
Live-blogging from the biennial convention of the Republican Party of Texas.
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2010: Together Again
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are together again, politically speaking. Hutchison told a crowd of Republican women in a packed ballroom at the downtown Dallas Hyatt that she’s backing Perry for governor and that they should, too.
