Here’s a look at photos over the nine years that David Dewhurst has been lieutenant governor. Polls show he is the front-runner to succeed U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
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TribLive: A Conversation with Wendy Davis
Full video of Evan Smith’s April 19 TribLive conversation with state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.
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State Government
TribLive: Davis on Perry’s Budget Compact
At Thursday’s TribLive conversation, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, explained why she won’t sign the governor’s budget compact — and why tax exemptions should be on the table.
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State Government
TribLive: Davis on the SD-10 Race
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, talked about why she thinks she can get re-elected in a GOP district — and why the liberal label doesn’t fit.
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State Government
Life of a Texas Lawmaker: Lousy Pay, Great Benefits
The pay for Texas lawmakers is low, but the pension benefits are sweet. Some say, though, that lawmakers who break the law should have to forfeit their pensions.
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State Government
Guest Column: How Conservative is David Dewhurst?
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst appears to be in the middle of the Republican pack in the Texas Senate, where he presides, according to an analysis of senators’ votes by Rice University political scientist Mark P. Jones.
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State Government
First Ad from Ames Jones: Jobs
In her first TV commercials — running during college basketball games this weekend and then in broader rotation in Austin and San Antonio starting next week — Texas Senate candidate Elizabeth Ames Jones says she’ll create jobs and fight “Obama bureaucrats.”
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Public Education
Who Will Lead the Senate Education Committee?
Sen. Florence Shapiro’s departure means the end of a nearly two-decade-long tenure in the state Senate — and an opening in the top position on the Senate Education Committee for the first time since 2003.
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State Government
Hegar Exploring 2014 Run for Comptroller
State Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, is exploring a 2014 run for comptroller — an office that would open up if Susan Combs decides to move on, perhaps to run for lieutenant governor.
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Health care
Senate Committee Tackles Rural Child Welfare
Child Protective Services officials got an earful on Wednesday at a Senate hearing on improving the caseworker retention rates in rural communities. And they got a minor scolding from Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville.
