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.
Republican Party Of Texas
Posted inState Government
Ads Infinitum: Medina’s TV Spot To Air in East Texas
This ad is worth a look. Toward the end, there’s a special shot of Medina really connecting with common man, by carrying a non-descript giant sack on her shoulder.
Posted in
State Government
GOP Guvs Plead the Tenth
The Republican Governors’ Association has come to Texas for its annual conference. They’re upbeat from its fresh wins in Virginia and New Jersey. And the group wants to build on those wins heading into the 2010 elections.
Posted inState Government
Texas Weekly: Solutions, Not Sound Bites
In Texas, Republicans have run the show for the past decade, but Texas remains strong despite their failure to lead.
Posted inState Government
Texas Weekly: The Texas Way
This is reform? No, it is insanity. It is certainly not the Texas way of doing business. These Democratic policies will greatly hurt the state of Texas.
Posted in
Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
KBH resigns herself to staying in the Senate, Grissom investigates the broken border, Ramshaw outs IT contractors who make gigabucks from state agencies, Hu gives Hutchison and Perry the Stump Interrupted treatment, the new head of the Foresenic Science Commission faces his critics, Stiles posts a searchable database of fines levied by the state ethics commission, and Hamilton discovers the consequences of party switching (none): The best of the best from November 9 to 13, 2009.
Posted in
Politics
Should KBH resign? Two views
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is playing a high stakes game of will-she-won’t-she. So should she or shouldn’t she?
Posted inState Government
2010: Another El Paso Republican to challenge Moody
El Paso Republican Rene Diaz invited us at The Texas Tribune this morning to join him on his “journey” as he runs for the Texas House. Diaz is going to run for the HD78 seat that Democrat Joe Moody now represents.
