“My job is to communicate to as many people as I can about where I’d like to go in the future of this state,” he said in Austin last week, “and to hope that people want a better future for this state and are willing to support somebody who will work for the people.”
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw on the state’s quiet sharing of infant blood samples with the military and on the things Rick Perry’s opponents aren’t saying about him, Grissom on Farouk Shami’s surprising popularity in El Paso, Philpott on the political advantages of a job creation fund and how Debra Medina’s supporters are reacting to her “truther” comments, Hu on Debra Medina in the latest installment of Stump Interrupted, Thevenot on how the kids feel about the federal option of closing bad high schools, Rapoport on the newest mutation of the state’s pay-as-you-go transportation philosophy, and our roundup of party primaries in the last week before the election: Rapoport on HD-7, Ramsey on HD-11, Aguilar on HD-36 and HD-43, Philpott on HD-47, Thevenot on HD-52 and SD-5, Kreighbaum on HD-105 and one Supreme Court race, M. Smith on another, and Hamilton on the colorful Democratic candidates for Agriculture Commissioner. The best of our best from February 22 to 26, 2010.
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2010: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
As if there wasn’t enough action planned in Austin on Tuesday, the Texas State History Museum Foundation announced today that it will be honoring none other than President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush at a dinner on the very same night as the primary election.
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State Government
Primary Color: HD-52
The GOP smackdown in this Republican-leaning district, now occupied by a freshman Democrat, is really a disagreement over focus. One leading candidate, a Capitol insider, has his sights trained on statewide concerns. The other, a Williamson County insider, focuses more on local concerns — and denigrates his opponent’s experience.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: Bonus Round
Eleven employees in the state’s treasury division got $360,000 in bonuses last year.
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State Government
TribBlog: Texas Spends $1.4 Million to Friend Facebook (Updated)
The Texas Enterprise Fund will dole out money to the social networking site for new operations in Austin.
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Public Education
Talking Back to the Feds
“Teachers should be chasing us around,” the Texas high school senior told the official from the U.S. Department of Education. “We shouldn’t be chasing them. But that doesn’t always happen here.”
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TribBlog: Staples Hacked
Don’t click that link! Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples is the latest “phishing” victim on Twitter.
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State Government
2010: A Crash of RINOs
Republican candidate Milton Rister says he’s got nothing to do with the speaker-bashing in an email making the rounds in Georgetown.
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State Government
TribLive: A Conversation with Julián Castro
For the third event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the mayor of San Antonio about the big issues facing the nation’s seventh-largest city, how his early notions of the job squared with the reality of being in it, his age, his ethnicity, his party affiliation in a nonpartisan office and, of course, his future plans.