Texas voters are more likely to attribute the state’s economic success to its natural resources and long-standing pro-business policies than to Gov. Rick Perry’s leadership, according to the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Economy
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Economy
New Perry Ad: “I’m a Doer, Not a Talker”
Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign is broadcasting a new ad in Iowa starting today that implicity denigrates Barack Obama for being “slick” and using a TelePrompter and explicity promises action instead of talk.
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Economy
Perry’s First Paid Ad Hits Iowa Airwaves
Rick Perry’s presidential campaign reportedly spent $175,000 on its first ad buy in Iowa, whose crucial caucus is a little more than two months away. The ad focuses on job creation efforts in Texas during Perry’s tenure as governor.
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Criminal Justice
Court Hears Challenge to State Business Tax
A successful challenge to the state’s primary business tax would throw lawmakers into special session to try to find enough money to pay for public schools, a lawyer for the state told the Texas Supreme Court today.
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Criminal Justice
TribLive: A Conversation with Susan Combs
At last Thursday’s TribLive conversation, Comptroller Susan Combs talked about the health of the Texas economy, her agency’s data breach, her shifting position on abortion and more.
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Economy
Private Sector Continues to Create Jobs in Texas
Texas added 15,400 new jobs last month, according to statistics released today by the Texas Workforce Commission. The Texas unemployment rate, which increased over the last three months, remained steady in September at 8.5 percent.
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Economy
TribLive: Combs on 82nd Session Budget Cuts
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, Comptroller Susan Combs talked about the billions cut from the state budget during the last legislative session — and whether kicking the can down the road on health care costs was a sound financial decision.
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Economy
TribLive: Combs on the Texas Economy
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, Comptroller Susan Combs talked about the health of the Texas economy — and whether unemployment creeping up is cause for concern.
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Economy
Video: Leppert Campaign Ad Touts Job Creation Record
U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert, the former Dallas mayor, has released a new campaign spot that boasts of his job creation experience, and takes a swipe at so-called “career politicians.”
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson interactively asks if stimulus funds created jobs in Texas, Aguilar on new voter registrar rules that could decrease voter turnout, Galbraith on a UT professor’s debunking of climate change “myths,” Grissom on an epic clash of El Paso political titans, Hamilton on the right’s new higher ed guru, Murphy maps household data from the 2010 Census, Ramsey on a coming rules fight in the Texas Senate, Root and M. Smith on Rick Perry’s performance at the New Hampshire debate and M. Smith talks public ed cuts with the state’s Superintendent of the Year: The best of our best content from October 10-14, 2011.