Coming soon to a large pink state capitol building in this very state: A day-long seminar on slot machines and casinos and all that, especially as it pertains to the state budget.
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State Government
Generation Next
Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, may be 50, but he’s only been in the House for three sessions. He’s part of a youth movement in the power corridors of the Legislature — one that’s less about age than lack of seniority.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: The Capitol in 3-D
The next legislative session is more than eight months away, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore the Capitol grounds — from your desk — thanks to Google Maps.
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Energy
A Hostile Climate
The Obama administration’s push to pass carbon control legislation got a boost yesterday with the release of a new version of the bill in the U.S. Senate. Here in Texas, as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, the state’s GOP leadership continues to fight back against what they view as an energy tax bill.
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Naomi Gonzalez: Full Audio
The newly elected state representative talks about how she beat Norma Chavez in their high-profile legislative race in El Paso, responds to charges that she’s a DINO (Democrat in name only) and reveals what she hopes to accomplish next session.
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2010: Jackson Beats Taylor [updated]
Mabrie Jackson, who pulled out of the race for state Rep. Brian McCall’s unexpired term, beat Van Taylor in Saturday’s special election, winning 56 percent of the vote to his 44 percent, according to Collin County’s election results.
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Health care
TribBlog: Capitol CPR
Lawmakers and state employees are getting trained in CPR and defibrillator use today — almost a year after Rep. Edmund Kuempel, R-Seguin, suffered a heart attack and collapsed in a Capitol elevator. He was saved by his colleague, Rep. John Zerwas, an anesthesiologist who resuscitated him with CPR.
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State Government
TribBlog: New GOP Group “a Little Undemocratic”?
Karen Hughes, a communications advisor to Speaker Joe Straus, told our TribLive audience this morning that it was “a little undemocratic” of the newly formed Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas not to invite every Republican in the House and Senate to join.
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Criminal Justice
Night of the Insurgents
Voters routed state Reps. Delwin Jones and Norma Chavez on Tuesday, turned back former Rep. Rick Green’s bid for a spot on the Texas Supreme Court and handed victories to at least three candidates who appeared to benefit from the Tea Party insurgency in Texas.
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2010: What Brown Did for Brown
Fred Brown won another term in the Texas House, after getting himself into a four-way primary and surviving that and today’s runoff against Gerald “Buddy” Winn.
