Immigration issues jumped into the center ring of the presidential race, so we took the opportunity to ask our insiders how that’s going to play for Gov. Rick Perry. The verdict? It depends.
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Guest Column: Past as Prelude? Perry in Texas and Iowa
An Iowa victory sent George W. Bush on to capture the Republican nomination in 2000. How might Iowans judge Texas’ next governor some 12 years later?
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Higher Education
Higher Ed Oversight Committee Revisits “Solutions”
At today’s hearing of the Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency, experts weighed in on how — and how not — to make universities in Texas more accountable and transparent.
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The Texas Weekly Index: March Fights, November Peace
General elections in Texas will be less competitive than ever under the redistricting maps approved by the Legislature earlier this year. The political threats to incumbents, if any, will come in primaries and not in general elections.
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Feds: Proposed Texas Maps Undermine Minority Voting Rights
The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that new political maps for the Texas House and the state’s congressional delegation don’t protect the electoral power of the state’s minority populations as required by the federal Voting Right Act.
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The Texas Weekly Index
Lots of things affect election outcomes. Candidates. Money. Issues. Surprises. But some of the results are wired into district maps, through redistricting. Here’s our charting of the political atmosphere — Republican or Democratic — in each of the House, Senate and congressional districts drawn by the Legislature this year.
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Inside Intelligence: Parched
Amidst a record-setting drought and neighborhood-devouring wildfires, we asked the insiders this week about water and fire policy.
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Higher Education
UT President Bill Powers: “We Are a House Divided”
University of Texas President Bill Powers isn’t mincing words in his State of the University address. He takes head-on the controversy that has dogged the state’s higher education community for several months.
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Mexico Mandates HPV Vaccine; Other U.S. States Consider It
Gov. Rick Perry may be taking heat for his failed plan to require young girls in Texas to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted disease human pappilomavirus, but the Mexican government has decided it’s a good idea, and many other states have considered similar plans.
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Jose Aliseda: The TT Interview
The freshman Republican state representative on what he liked about the legislative session, what’s wrong with the process, the press, politics and why he’d be coming back for more if a local job hadn’t opened up.