Past Contributions

• T-Squared: Partnering with the Chronicle

  By Evan Smith June 3, 2010

  Coming this Sunday, the first of hopefully many joint projects between the Tribune and the Houston Chronicle will see publication — both on our site and on the Chron's front page. Full Story 

• T-Squared: Now With More Energy...

  By Evan Smith June 1, 2010

  Effective today, the Trib has a dedicated energy reporter on staff: Kate Galbraith, formerly of The Economist and The New York Times. Full Story 

• TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

  By Evan Smith May 29, 2010

  Ramsey on what the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll says about the governor's race, education, immigration, and other issues; Grissom on a far West Texas county divided over Arizona's immigration law; Ramshaw talks health care reform and obesity in Texas with a legendary Dallas doctor; M. Smith on the Collin County community that's about to break ground on a $60 million high school football stadium; Aguilar on the backlog of cases in the federal immigration detention system; Philpott of the Green Party's plans to get back on the ballot; Hu on the latest in the Division of Workers' Comp contretemps; Mulvaney on the punishing process of getting compensated for time spent in jail when you didn't commit a crime; Hamilton on the fight over higher ed formula funding; and my sit-down with state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin: The best of our best from May 24-28, 2010. Full Story 

• T-Squared: We Know Who You Are

  By Evan Smith May 27, 2010

  As we fan out across the state to solicit memberships, major gifts and corporate underwriting, we're hearing only good things about the size of our audience — a 25 million page view run rate in the first year is no small potatoes — but we're increasingly getting questions about who that audience is. Who's reading the Trib? Full Story 

• TribBlog: Texans Back Casino Gambling, Oppose Taxes

  By Evan Smith May 25, 2010

  A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 57 percent of Texans favor legalizing casino gambling as a means to draw down the coming budget shortfall, but only 21 percent support higher taxes. Full Story 

• A Conversation with Kirk Watson

  By Evan Smith May 23, 2010

  For the 10th event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the state senator from Austin about the budget shortfall, the road funding hole, why Barack Obama is unpopular in Texas and the prospect of Bill White beating Rick Perry. Full Story 

• TribBlog: Henry Cisneros Endorses...

  By Evan Smith May 22, 2010

  Today the former San Antonio mayor, former HUD Secretary and recent social studies textbook reject publicly backed the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in a big, iconic state with a screwed-up Capitol culture and an incumbent governor who is occasionally the subject of unkind comments elsewhere in the country. No, not that candidate. Full Story 

• 2010: Saving Bill White's Soul

  By Evan Smith May 18, 2010

  "There was a lot of church growing up," the former Houston mayor tells Texas Monthly, recalling his coming of age San Antonio. Full Story 

• Perry 51, White 38

  By Evan Smith May 17, 2010

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• TribBlog: Riddle vs. Martinez Fischer ... Finally

  By Evan Smith May 17, 2010

  The long-awaited debate over the Arizona immigration law between state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, and state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio — promised but never facilitated by CNN — took place today on Dallas radio station KRLD. Full Story