Aaronson on Rick Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund, Aguliar on the DOJ’s Joe Arpaio problem, Galbraith on the uncertainty about Texas’ electric grid, Grissom and Schwartz of The New York Times on the latest in the Michael Morton case, Hamilton on the first leg of Perry’s Iowa bus tour, Murphy and McLain unveil our new campaign finance database, Ramsey et al. go live with the first round of our 2012 election brackets, Root on a GOP rival’s queries about Perry’s pension play, M. Smith contrasts the various school finance lawsuits and Tan, Dehn and Murphy on a shortage of mental health professionals: The best of our best content from December 19-23, 2011.
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Veterans Tout Perry in New Ad
In a new ad airing in Iowa just eleven days before the first-in-the-nation caucuses, decorated veterans praise Rick Perry and promote his presidential candidacy.
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State Government
Austin on $7,200 a Year
Gov. Rick Perry is taking advantage of a wrinkle in state law that allows a state officeholder to collect a pension while also collecting a paycheck. Considering the likely candidates, how could this figure into the 2014 elections?
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Perry Headed Back to Austin After First Leg of Iowa Bus Tour
Gov. Rick Perry wrapped up the first leg of his bus tour through Iowa on Thursday, and now he’s heading back to Austin for Christmas.
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Energy
Weekend Insider: Texas Energy Shortage, Perry’s Cost to Taxpayers
In this episode of Weekend Insider, reporter Kate Galbraith talks about whether Texas will have enough electricity to make it through another hot summer. And reporter Jay Root tries to track down just how much Gov. Rick Perry’s run for the White House is costing Texas taxpayers.
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Before Hiatus, Perry Bus Tour Gains Traction
Today is the last day of Gov. Rick Perry’s pre-Christmas Iowa bus tour. Perry will return Friday to Texas for a brief Christmas break, then it’s back to campaigning. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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State Government
Perry Rival Wants Probe of Retirement Pay
An old Republican rival of Gov. Rick Perry is calling on state and federal officials to investigate whether he broke the law when he began collecting his lucrative pension without actually leaving his job.
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TribCast
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 111
Reeve, Ben and Rebecca Kaplan of CBS News and National Journal take some time off from tailing Gov. Rick Perry on his bus tour through Iowa to review how it’s gone so far.
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State Government
Texas Counties Object to April 3 Primaries
In papers filed in federal court today, officials who administer the state’s elections said the April 3 primaries — agreed to by the Democratic and Republican parties and ordered by a panel of federal judges — create an impossible situation.
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Perry Envisions His First 100 Days as President
On the penultimate day of his pre-Christmas bus tour through Iowa, Gov. Rick Perry laid out an outline — a very skeletal outline — of the first hundred days of his hypothetical presidency.
