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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Multi-part stories from Ramshaw and Grissom and Stiles on mental health services for detained immigrants and on payday lenders who provide exorbitantly priced credit to people with nowhere else to turn… Twitter, word clouds and the race for governor — a Stiles joint… Farouk Shami is in and Hu was there to watch… Philpott went to Bastrop for a gather of Republican governors… Rapoport finds a State Board of Education that’s trying to control itself… and we have the skinny on legislative races that are likely to be competitive (only about 5 percent of the races on the ballot). It’s the best of The Texas Tribune from November 14 to 20, 2009.
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White: Still Running for Senate. Really.
Houston Mayor Bill White, interviewed by Texas Tribune Editor-in-chief and CEO Evan Smith at the Center for Politics and Governance at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. White said, once again, that he’s running for Senate and not governor.
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Running with the Numbers
Texas gained more than 41,000 jobs in October, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. More than 100,000 jobs were lost over the previous two months. These statistics are good political fodder when there’s a fight for the governor’s office brewing, like there is now.
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Ads Infinitum: Medina’s TV Spot To Air in East Texas
This ad is worth a look. Toward the end, there’s a special shot of Medina really connecting with common man, by carrying a non-descript giant sack on her shoulder.
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KBH Internet Ad
Kay Bailey Hutchison doesn’t attack Rick Perry in her television ads (which just started today), but her Internet advertising is a different proposition. Here, she’s deconstructing his first TV spot. His is an attack on her; she’s returning the volley.
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Economy
TribBlog: Unemployment Rises in Texas
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in October, up from 5.2 percent a year ago.
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State Government
Debtors’ Treadmill, Part Two: Political Payday
Groups that offer high-interest, short-term consumer loans and want to avoid state regulation contributed more than $1.4 million to Texas politicians over the past nine years, Texas Ethics Commission records show.
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The Farouk Show
Farouk Shami’s red-carpeted gubernatorial candidacy coming-out party was more like a scene out of Fashion Week than anything Texas Democrats typically put on. But the stagecraft and the statewide ad buy that begins today are aimed to quell doubts about whether he’s making a serious run.
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HuTube: Under the Farouk Tent
Couldn’t make it to the big tent for Democrat Farouk Shami’s gubernatorial announcement? This is your pass to the party.