The El Paso Times backs the favorite gubernatorial candidates of edit boards elsewhere and makes its pick in the anybody’s-guess Democratic primary for Ag Commissioner.
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Primary Color: HD-7
Is this the year that independent-minded state Rep. Tommy Merritt, R-Longview, finally gets his comeuppance from conservatives?
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Signs of Shami
Without El Paso, you know, it’d be like a campaign without sunshine for Farouk Shami. The Palestinian immigrant running as a Democrat for governor has made public overtures to Latinos, and it’s working: He’s drawing some of his most significant support from Hispanic Democrats in the Sun City.
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Health care
DNA Deception
When they were sued last year for storing baby blood samples without parental consent, Texas health officials said they’d done it for medical research. They never said they turned over the blood spots to the federal government to help build a vast DNA database. A Texas Tribune review of nine years’ worth of e-mails and internal documents on the Department of State Health Services’ newborn blood screening program, released after the state settled the case so quickly that it never reached the discovery phase, shows an effort to limit the public’s knowledge of the program.
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State Government
TribLive: A Conversation with Julián Castro
For the third event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the mayor of San Antonio about the big issues facing the nation’s seventh-largest city, how his early notions of the job squared with the reality of being in it, his age, his ethnicity, his party affiliation in a nonpartisan office and, of course, his future plans.
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A Little Something for the Economy
This really would be sort of a sweet time to own a television station, wouldn’t it? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Bill White, and Farouk Shami spending, combined, something upwards of $1 million a day, with much of that going on the air or in the mail?
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2010: EPT Endorses Gonzalez over Chavez in HD-76
The El Paso Times endorsed challenger Naomi Gonzalez today in her bid to unseat HD-76 incumbent Norma Chavez in the March 2 Democratic primary.
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State Government
TribBlog: Mr. President?
Ron Paul wins the first big straw poll of the 2012 race for the GOP nomination.
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State Government
2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Statesman for Chavez-Thompson
“[N]obody in the race — perhaps on the entire ballot — offers a more admirable life story.”
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Star-Telegram for KBH, White
The laggard of the big five papers finally calls, “Bingo!” — joining its edit board counterparts elsewhere in supporting the senior U.S. senator and the former Houston mayor in the upcoming party primaries for governor.