Full video of my 2014 Texas Tribune Festival keynote conversation with Gov. Rick Perry.
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Inside Texas Politics: Abbott and Davis Face Off
On this week’s edition of WFAA-TV’s Inside Texas Politics with host Jason Wheeler, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Bud Kennedy and Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey, it’s all about the November elections.
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Criminal Justice
At TribFest, Perry Says He Still Supports Tuition Law
Gov. Rick Perry, speaking on Sunday at The Texas Tribune Festival, said he still supports a Texas law that grants in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. He also said he would not decide whether he was going to run for president until 2015.
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Transportation
State Leaders Open to More Toll Roads Amid Signs of Resistance
Texas played host to the toll road industry’s annual conference this week, and local and state leaders made clear to the more than 900 people in attendance that the state expected to pursue more toll projects.
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Energy
The Brief: Sept. 18, 2014
Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples lost out on his bid to be lieutenant governor, but he might be in line for another job before his term ends in January.
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Criminal Justice
Perry Urges Mexican President to Visit Texas, See Guard at Work
Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday invited Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to witness for himself the operations of the National Guard patrolling the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
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Health care
The Brief: Sept. 17, 2014
State leaders seem reluctant to break out the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the border surge even though apprehensions of illegal immigrants have hit a target goal laid out in July.
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Transportation
Perry Touts Transportation Legacy to Toll Road Group
Gov. Rick Perry spoke about the need to embrace every possible way to finance road construction — outside of raising taxes — in a speech to a toll road industry conference in Austin on Tuesday.
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Energy
The Brief: Sept. 16, 2014
University of Texas System regents moved quickly Monday to keep two lawmakers from sitting in on interviews conducted by an external investigator into admissions procedures at the system’s flagship Austin campus.
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Politics
Analysis: Law, Like Politics, Makes Strange Bedfellows
It can be jarring for a political movement built around restraining the legal system to spawn a collection of officeholders eager to use the courts to get their way.
