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Newsreel: Polls, Schools and the End in Sight
This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: The end of the special session is in sight, the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune polls are out and a judge says new school finance litigation case will begin in January.
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Candidates Race to Prove Heft in Money Primary
Candidates are racing to raise money before an end-of-the-month deadline, the better to prove the strength of their campaigns for 2014 in reports that come out July 15.
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Bidness As Usual
UT/TT Poll: Partisan Splits on Guns in Texas
Texans strongly favor criminal and mental health background checks on all gun sales, and they are divided when it comes to concealed weapons on college campuses, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Redistricting Maps Draw Amendments in House
The Texas House went off script Thursday, adopting several amendments to political redistricting maps it initially intended to adopt without changes.
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Speculation Mounts as Decision Nears for Perry
It’s virtually impossible to predict what Rick Perry will do, but speculation is mounting that he won’t run for re-election. The chatter is on the upswing now that the governor has said he will make his intentions known before July 1.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Rising Concerns Over Political Corruption, Leadership
Most Texans still see the nation as being on the wrong track, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. And the issue of political corruption and leadership is rising on Texans’ list of top problems facing the country.
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Politics Among the Elephants
The finance primaries started this week and the special session has another week to run, but the season’s first skirmishes among Texas Republicans are starting to appear.
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TWIA Board Agrees to Steps to Address Financial Woes
UPDATED: The board of the state’s embattled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association agreed Tuesday to take steps that it says will better prepare the agency for the 2013 hurricane season and be more efficient over the long term.
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Inside Intelligence: About that Ultimatum…
For this week’s nonscientific survey of insiders in politics and government, we asked about the travails of the Travis County district attorney, and about the governor’s ultimatum that she resign or lose state funding for her office.