To better understand the geography of the money race, we mapped the candidates’ contributions by city, using graduated symbols to highlight their most lucrative areas. The bubbles in the maps get larger based on the percentage of a candidates’ total take.
State Government
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An Interview with Brian McCall
State Rep. Brian McCall, R-Plano, on the leadership of Speaker Joe Straus, the modern Republican party and his decision to leave the Texas House after two decades.
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Public Education
TribBlog: Will Obama Put Texas Schools Back in the Race?
The president announced he would ask Congress for an additional $1.35 billion for the Race to the Top education grant program — which Gov. Perry spurned last week — along with more flexibility in doling it out to individual districts. He also took a swipe at Texas.
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2010: White’s Way Behind
Former Houston Mayor Bill White has said it won’t be easy to beat a Republican for the Texas governorship. The latest Rasmussen numbers prove it. He’s trailing both Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by double-digits.
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Debra Medina’s Full Post-Debate Remarks
GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina’s complete post-debate press conference from January 14.
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Ads Infinitum: Nolan Ryan in KBH’s “Fence”
Kay Bailey Hutchison has a friend in baseball legend Nolan Ryan.
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Energy
Riding into Sunset
As the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality prepares for a legislative review next year, one of its ex-commissioners is consulting with environmentalists who are critical of the agency and the Perry administration.
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Who’s Funding the Governor’s Race?
To find the most-common occupations among the thousands of people who’ve donated to the major candidates in the last year, we created word clouds, a visualization technique that boosts the size of words depending on their frequency.