State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a leading advocate of ethics reform in the notoriously unrestrained Texas Legislature, filed legislation Tuesday designed to shed more light on lawmakers who make money off of government contracts.
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Economy
Marc Veasey Sees a Future for Texas Democrats
Prospects for Democrats in Texas might seem grim at the moment, but from his Washington perch, U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey thinks things will turn his party’s way. Eventually.
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Energy
Dissecting Denton: How One City Banned Fracking
State lawmakers, the oil and gas industry and national environmental groups are asking deep questions about Denton, home to two universities, 277 gas wells and, now, thanks to a group of local activists, Texas’ first ban on fracking.
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Politics
Analysis: How Red is Texas? Count the Ways.
Republicans didn’t just win their statewide elections earlier this month — they won in ways that only become apparent when you dig into the numbers. In many counties, the Democrats could not attract more than one voter in five.
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Health care
For Molly White, Abortion Changed Everything
When Molly White takes office in January, she will immediately be one of the Texas House’s most conservative members. But to a degree unique among her new colleagues, ending abortion is White’s personal and political passion.
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Energy
The Brief: Nov. 13, 2014
Wendy Davis’ rout was foretold by a couple of Democratic strategists who despaired nearly a year ago over the direction in which the Democratic gubernatorial candidate was taking her campaign.
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Politics
Internal Memos Detail Davis Campaign Dysfunction
Consultants for Democrat Wendy Davis warned her campaign months ago that the Fort Worth senator was headed for a humiliating defeat in the Texas governor’s race unless she adopted a more centrist message and put a stop to staggering dysfunction.
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Politics
The Brief: Nov. 10, 2014
Examples are starting to pile up of the arrival of social media as a force with an effect on political campaigns as influential as traditional media coverage and advertising buys.
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Politics
Sophisticated Turnout Machine Fueled Abbott’s Big Margin of Victory
Greg Abbott’s gubernatorial campaign released details this week on its exhaustive ground game and voter targeting efforts. The campaign credits those efforts in aiding his eye-popping margin of victory — 20 points — over Wendy Davis.
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Energy
The Brief: Nov. 7, 2014
It wasn’t just Republicans in Texas who were celebrating big statehouse gains on Tuesday.
