What concerns me as a Republican is that the race for governor may be focusing too much on the personalities of the candidates and the highly charged nature of the race rather than the long-term vision and consequences. I worry that either candidate could win the race but lose the future — too much focus on the politics of the next year, rather than the policies of the next decade.
State Government
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Stump Interrupted: Kay Bailey Hutchison
Remember VH1’s “Pop-up Video”? We loved it, too. It inspired us to launch a new feature we call Stump Interrupted, a twist on the traditional stump speech. U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is the first to get the S.I. treatment. We take her seven-minute monologue from a Waco campaign event and put it into context.
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Demographics
Broken Border, Part Two: The Checkpoint Conundrum
Texas’ chain of inland checkpoints has created a border within a border, separating abused and sometimes undocumented children in counties adjacent to Mexico from services north of the invisible line.
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Justin’s Story
His name is Justin. He’s a heroin addict. He’s been sober for 42 days. And he’s 16.
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2010: White sits tight
Bill White is still running for the U.S. Senate, according to aides and to White himself, in response to a flurry of weekend rumors that he’s switching to the race for governor.
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State Government
2010: El Paso County Attorney announces Senate candidacy
Today in El Paso, County Attorney Jose Rodriguez announced he is running for the state Senate seat that Democrat Eliot Shapleigh is giving up.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Houston, We Have a Partner
This afternoon, the Chronicle reprinted a Tribune story, in its entirety, online — and the world did not end.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Ask and Ye Shall RSSeive.
One of the persistent comments we heard after going live last Tuesday was: Why can’t you provide an RSS feed for your original news stream, and, more broadly, why isn’t the site set up in a way that enables the RSS habits and preferences of your users? Done and done.
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State Government
2010: Rodriguez Senate announcement Sunday
El Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez is expected to announce tomorrow at an El Paso press conference that he will run for the Texas Senate seat that state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh is vacating.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw’s multi-parter on restraints in schools, Thevenot’s reading on the future of textbooks, Ramsey’s take on a Democratic defection, Rapoport’s profile of self-described “religious fanatic” Don McLeroy, and Henson and Shaw’s thoroughly noncontroversial poll on the governor’s race (kidding!): The best of the best from November 3 to November 6, 2009.