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  • The Weekly TribCast: Episode 20

    By Elise Hu

    In this week's TribCast, we consider the tax disclosure problems for Texas politicians, the response to drug violence along the Texas-Mexico border and discuss the pro-impeachment Democrat in a well-known Houston district. Full Story 

  • The Brief: March 17, 2010

    By Julián Aguilar

    The violence in the border city of Juarez has offered Gov. Rick Perry another shot at the federal government and what he deems is its failure to secure the nation’s border with Mexico. Full Story 

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  • TribBlog: Perry Activates Border "Spillover" Plan

    By Brandi Grissom

    Gov. Rick Perry said he's activating the "first phase of the state’s spillover violence contingency plan" in the wake of increasing drug violence on the Texas-Mexico border. But the next sentence of the press release says he's not telling anyone what the plan is, for security reasons. Full Story 

    A screengrab from Perry's "Border" spot.
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  • The Brief: March 16, 2010

    By Julián Aguilar

    U.S. authorities teamed with Mexican law enforcement agents on Monday and scoured the streets of the border city of Juarez in search of clues to the weekend murder of three people, including two U.S. citizens, with ties to the U.S. Consulate in that violent city. Full Story 

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  • TribBlog: U.S. Dept. of State Says Stay Out of Mexico

    By Brandi Grissom

    Following the weekend killing in Juarez of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, the U.S. Department of State has issued a strongly worded and startling warning for Americans to stay away from Mexico. The department also has told family members of U.S. government officials in Mexican border towns they can return to the U.S. Full Story 

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  • The Brief: March 15, 2010

    By Julián Aguilar

    The weekend slaughter in Mexico of two U.S. citizens with ties to the consulate’s office in Ciudad Juarez has sparked outrage from Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have publicly condemned the attacks that left a pregnant consulate employee, her husband and a Mexican national dead. Full Story 

    Downtown El Paso
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  • TribBlog: Promises Broken? [Updated]

    By Julián Aguilar

    Texas border leaders on Friday unleashed a diatribe at the interim director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for postponing a planned pay raise for federal agents and failing to beef up protection of the state’s border region. Full Story 

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  • Starving for Reform

    By Julián Aguilar

    For two months, inmates in a South Texas immigrant detention facility have been on a staggered hunger strike — what the government calls “voluntary fasting" — to protest alleged abuse, lack of medical care and near-nil access to legal resources. Full Story 

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  • Primary Color: HD-43

    By Julián Aguilar

    Ideological purity is the big issue on March 2 in this South Texas district. Freshman state Rep. Tara Rios Ybarra, D-South Padre Island, touts her "moderate" approach and bipartisan tendencies, but her challenger insists, “The first thing we have to do is get rid of all the closet Republicans from the Democratic Party." Full Story 

    J.M. Lozano and Tara Rios Ybarra

  • Primary Color: HD-76

    By Brandi Grissom

    State Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, is in the fight of her career, trying to hang onto her Texas House seat after a bruising year in which her public fights with her fellow lawmakers made headlines statewide. Her young opponent says it’s way past time for a change. Full Story 

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  • Primary Color: CD-23

    By Morgan Smith

    Two lawyers, two doctors and an ex-CIA officer are hoping that discontent with the federal government and anxiety about the economy will propel them to victory against incumbent U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San Antonio. But first, they have to win a crowded Republican primary. Full Story 

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