“White brings an impressive resume that includes business leadership, a stint as a top official in the Clinton administration’s Energy Department and a successful tenure as mayor of Houston — a city as politically and ethnically diverse as our state.”
Austin
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2010: Newspaper Endorsements: Statesman for Kay
“Hutchison is not the flashiest politician in the race, but she is nonetheless the best choice in the Republican primary.”
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Economy
Burned Orange
A clash over a beloved campus music club at UT-Austin portends the gnashing of teeth at schools statewide as a budgetary winter threatens to envelop higher education.
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Criminal Justice
2010: White, Perry Lead in Fundraising
The latest campaign finance reports show that both candidates raised more than $700,000 in January. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison spent more than any other candidate: $3.3 million.
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Transportation
Up in the Air
Feeling blue over paltry federal funding for high-speed rail? Forget about it. Two Austin visionaries are already looking ahead to the next transportation innovations.
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Higher Education
A Matter of Degrees
Community colleges pitch themselves as the gateway to prosperity for lower-income students who’ve been historically shut out of higher education. Trouble is, despite increasing enrollment numbers, few of them graduate.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
The death penalty and DNA testing in a 16-year-old triple murder in the Texas Panhandle. The second debate between the three Republican candidates for governor. Charter schools are having a hard time hanging on to the employees that matter the most: Teachers. The possibilities and perils of a switch to electronic medical records. A rundown of top races. Who’s giving to candidates, and how much? Social networks and politicians. Ballots: The slow reveal. And a new and highly requested feature makes its debut. The best of our best from January 23 to 29, 2010.
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HuTube: The Focus Group
Who won the debate? Our panel of ten undecided Republican voters was nearly unanimous in its decision.
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Health care
Paperless Medicine: Training the eWorkforce
If doctors in Texas are going to start using electronic medical records, somebody has to teach them how to do it. The state’s universities are gearing up to teach the teachers.
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Health care
Barack and a Hard Place
Two very different Texans in the U.S. House of Representatives — Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and John Carter, R-Round Rock — respond to the president’s State of the Union address.