Texas identity remains alive and well and continues to play a critical role in the state’s politics.
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Public Education
TribBlog: Will Obama Put Texas Schools Back in the Race?
The president announced he would ask Congress for an additional $1.35 billion for the Race to the Top education grant program — which Gov. Perry spurned last week — along with more flexibility in doling it out to individual districts. He also took a swipe at Texas.
Posted inState Government
2010: White’s Way Behind
Former Houston Mayor Bill White has said it won’t be easy to beat a Republican for the Texas governorship. The latest Rasmussen numbers prove it. He’s trailing both Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by double-digits.
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Politics
2010: “Strongly Disapprove”
It seems Republicans in Texas are generally unimpressed with the President, according to Rasmussen poll numbers.
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Criminal Justice
Openly Hostile
Kay Bailey Hutchison says Texas government should be more transparent. Rick Perry says it already is. Let the sniping begin.
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Energy
Riding into Sunset
As the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality prepares for a legislative review next year, one of its ex-commissioners is consulting with environmentalists who are critical of the agency and the Perry administration.
Posted inState Government
Who’s Funding the Governor’s Race?
To find the most-common occupations among the thousands of people who’ve donated to the major candidates in the last year, we created word clouds, a visualization technique that boosts the size of words depending on their frequency.
