Dave Carney, Perry’s top political consultant, told the Tribune on Thursday that the Super PAC, which can raise and spend unlimited money on political contests, isn’t affiliated with the governor of Texas or with his explorations of the presidential race.
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Higher Education
The Pundit vs. the Professor: A Debate About Academic Tenure
Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of the book The Faculty Lounges … And Other Reasons You Won’t Get the College Education You Pay For, and Daniel Hamermesh, economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, debate the merits of tenure.
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Higher Education
A&M System Nixes Controversial Teaching Awards Program
Today, in one of his first acts as the new Texas A&M University System interim chancellor, Jay Kimbrough discontinued a controversial Teaching Excellence Awards program.
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Higher Education
Updated: Governor, Others Respond to UT’s “Seven Solutions” Response
Randy Diehl, the dean of the University at Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts, has released a response to the so-called “seven breakthrough solutions” for higher education, calling them “the wrong approach.”
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Video: Martinez Fischer, Texas Redistricting on CNN
CNN is anticipating another redistricting showdown in Texas. The Mexican American Legislative Caucus, led by state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, is preparing for a court battle over the newly-passed congressional map.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: In Closing
You can let your children out of the storm cellar — the Texas Legislature has gone home. Better still, our insiders don’t think lawmakers will be back in session before January 2013, when the 83rd Legislature will convene.
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Demographics
Sine Die Report: What Survived, What Died
The Trib’s been keeping track of the key issues throughout the special session. From budget measures to school finance, health care and airport groping, here’s our final rundown of bills that passed, and the ones that died.
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Perry Wades Into Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder this week calling plans by pro-Palestinian activists to protest and potentially disrupt Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza an “unacceptable provocation.”
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It’s Williams v. Williams in Congressional Race
Weatherford car dealer Roger Williams switched from the U.S. Senate race to a race for Congress this morning, finishing up a swap that began last week with calls to supporters in and around the new CD-33.
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The Brief: June 27, 2011
Will they or won’t they? That’s the question lawmakers, who seem to have met for a matter of minutes in the waning days of the special legislative session, face today on a series of controversial measures Gov. Rick Perry added to the call.