State Government

The state’s politicians are forced to regroup four weeks before voting begins.

They say good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

If your campaign plan depends on something that has never happened before, you’re a long shot.

The law limiting speech and political contributions in races for Speaker of the Texas House is, in part, unconstitutional, according to a federal judge in Austin.

Kyle Janek isn’t in a political race this year, but his money will be. The Houston Republican resigned from the state Senate in mid-term and the special election to replace him is underway.

In seven of the state’s 31 Senate districts, more people voted in this year’s Democratic primary than voted in the 2006 general election.

Texas Democrats have been recruiting Libertarian candidates into state races for years. The conventional view is that a Libertarian takes more from a Republican than from a Democrat. In a close race, that can make all the difference.

Texas Democrats are doing a tag-team routine on Sen. Kim Brimer, R-Fort Worth, excoriating him for filing a lawsuit to knock Wendy Davis off the ballot and asking the courts to rule against him — and quickly. The courts have answered that request; they set a hearing for July 22.

High gas prices cost the state money, but pump a huge windfall into the treasury, too.

Residents of the Lone Star State aren’t happy about the way things are going, with 70 percent saying the country’s on the wrong track and 78 percent saying the country is worse off economically than it was a year ago.