Texas will not adopt national school curriculum standards, risking its ability to get a $700 million federal grant.
Griffin Perry
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The Brief: November 24, 2009
Is “eye-gougingly boring” the new “gubernatorial”?
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Little White Lie
In which I forgive the mayor of Houston for B.S.ing me last Friday.
Posted inState Government
2010: Winners and Losers
Tom Schieffer’s out, and for the sake of this piece, let’s say Bill White is running for the Democratic nomination for governor. How’s that work out for everybody?
Posted inState Government
The Brief: November 23, 2009
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said she wanted to keep fighting the “government takeover of healthcare” — and now she’ll get her chance.
Posted inState Government
Peace, Love, and Understanding
Earlier this month, Rick Perry helped push a so-called RINO — Republican In Name Only — off the congressional ballot in New York, only to see the Conservative Party candidate he backed lose to a Democrat. But that kind of us-versus-them narrative was missing from the just completed Republican Governor’s Association meeting in Bastrop County.
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State Government
TribBlog: Rick Perry as Chuck Norris in the Twittersphere
He can “can blow bubbles with beef jerky”?
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Multi-part stories from Ramshaw and Grissom and Stiles on mental health services for detained immigrants and on payday lenders who provide exorbitantly priced credit to people with nowhere else to turn… Twitter, word clouds and the race for governor — a Stiles joint… Farouk Shami is in and Hu was there to watch… Philpott went to Bastrop for a gather of Republican governors… Rapoport finds a State Board of Education that’s trying to control itself… and we have the skinny on legislative races that are likely to be competitive (only about 5 percent of the races on the ballot). It’s the best of The Texas Tribune from November 14 to 20, 2009.
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Politics
The Brief: November 20, 2009
Ready to welcome U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry into your living room?
