What the Twitter contest between Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina tells us about their campaigns for governor.
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Public Education
TribBlog: Imagine the Controversy
A for-profit company hopes to get approval to start two charter schools in Texas. Thursday’s SBOE meeting will set the precedent for dealing with this murkier side of the charter school system.
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A Candidate to Dye For
Farouk Shami, a hair stylist turned hair products entrepreneur, will announce his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor this week.
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Texas Weekly: The Texas Way
This is reform? No, it is insanity. It is certainly not the Texas way of doing business. These Democratic policies will greatly hurt the state of Texas.
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Audio: Money, Politics and the Supremes
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the use of corporate expenditures. And a new national poll released Monday by the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs takes an in-depth look at how the country feels about money in politics. Including how corporate money should be used in a campaign. KUT’s Ben Philpott reports how federal campaign finance could change after that ruling.
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Health care
TribBlog: Physical Education Requirements Soon to be Gone
Amid handwringing over child obesity, SBOE likely will eliminate health and physical education requirements at this week’s meeting.
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State Government
TribBlog: In his own words
The full text from state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh’s e-mail response to The Texas Tribune for the story “Shapleigh Ever After” is pretty illuminating. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
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The Brief: November 16, 2009
It’s as true in Texas’ non-race for U.S. Senate as anywhere else: The more things change, the more they stay the same.