Past Contributions

• TribBlog: Rick Perry on Jon Stewart

  By Evan Smith Nov. 9, 2010

  In case you missed it, here's the complete, unedited appearance Monday night by Gov. Rick Perry on The Daily Show. Full Story 

• T-Squared: Newsweek's Mark Miller Joins Trib Staff as Editor

  By Evan Smith Nov. 8, 2010

  Mark Miller — most recently the editorial director of Newsweek and the editor of Newsweek Digital, and previously an assistant managing editor for Sunday and enterprise reporting at the Dallas Morning News — has agreed to join the Trib's staff in mid-December in the newly created position of editor. Full Story 

• TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

  By Evan Smith Nov. 6, 2010

  Our wall-to-wall Election Day coverage — complete results up and down the ballot and county by county, the all-hands-on-deck Trib team on the Republican tsunami, my conversation with George W. Bush's media adviser and Rick Perry's pollster about what happened on Tuesday, Stiles and Ramsey on what 194 candidates spent per vote this election cycle, Hu on how the GOP rout will affect the substance of the next legislative session, Hamilton on the Texas Democratic Trust's unhappy end, Ramshaw and Stiles profile the new arrivals at the Capitol in January, M. Smith on what's next for Chet Edwards and Ramsey and me on six matters of politics and policy we're thinking about going forward — plus Thevenot and Butrymowicz on a possible solution to the high school dropout problem: The best of our best from Nov. 1 to 5, 2010. Full Story 

• TribLive: Mark McKinnon and Mike Baselice

  By Evan Smith Nov. 5, 2010

  Full audio and audience Q&A from our TribLive post-election debrief with pollster Mike Baselice and media strategist Mark McKinnon. Full Story 

• A Conversation With Mark McKinnon and Mike Baselice

  By Evan Smith Nov. 5, 2010

  For the 15th event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the former George W. Bush and John McCain media strategist and Rick Perry's pollster about what happened Tuesday night: how the Republicans took back the majority in the U.S. House and upped their number of seats in the Texas House by 30 percent, what that portends for the next two years in Austin and Washington, D.C., and whether the governor is really running for president. Full Story 

• Perry, White Look to the Future

  By Evan Smith Nov. 3, 2010

  As Gov. Rick Perry won another four years in office last night and his Democratic challenger, Bill White, conceded defeat, both men hinted at what they might do next. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports. Full Story 

• T-Squared: The Mother of All Traffic Jams

  By Evan Smith Nov. 3, 2010

  You may be wondering what happened to The Texas Tribune on Election Night. *You're* what happened: We had a truly unprecedented (for us) surge of traffic that crashed our servers. Full Story 

• TribBlog: Happy Birthday to Us

  By Evan Smith Nov. 2, 2010

  Yep, we turned 1 today. (It's not too late to send a card.) Full Story 

• T-Squared: Apparently, We're Generally Excellent

  By Evan Smith Oct. 31, 2010

  At last night's Online Journalism Awards, presented as part of the annual Online News Association conference, The Texas Tribune was one of six sites to win the prestigious General Excellence award. Full Story 

• Beyond Election Day

  By Ross Ramsey and Evan Smith Oct. 31, 2010

  Yes, yes, the governor’s race: It’s tended to suck all the air out of the room this election cycle, hasn’t it? But there’s an undercard as well, and even if it’s received scant attention by comparison, don’t think it doesn’t matter. To the contrary, the outcome of races other than the one at the top of the ballot has serious implications for a great many matters of politics and policy that will affect and should interest every single Texan in the near term. Full Story