Past Contributions

• TribLive: Patrick on the Two-Thirds Rule

  By Evan Smith Sept. 19, 2013

  At Thursday's TribLive conversation, state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, a candidate for lieutenant governor, explained his ongoing opposition to the Senate's two-thirds rule. Full Story 

• TribLive: A Conversation With Tom Pauken

  By Evan Smith Sept. 17, 2013

  Full video of my 9/16 TribLive conversation with Tom Pauken, a Republican candidate for Texas governor in 2014. Full Story 

• TribLive: Pauken on School Finance

  By Evan Smith Sept. 16, 2013

  At Monday's TribLive conversation, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Pauken talked about his plan to reduce property taxes and increase sales taxes to pay for public education. Full Story 

• TribLive: Pauken on the Governor's Race

  By Evan Smith Sept. 16, 2013

  At Monday's TribLive conversation, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Pauken talked about Greg Abbott, Wendy Davis and the contours of the 2014 race. Full Story 

• Hot Seat: A Conversation With Leach and Paxton

  By Evan Smith Sept. 14, 2013

  At our 9/11 Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas at Dallas, state Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, and state Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, talked about public education, water, transportation and other issues in play in the 83rd session. Full Story 

• TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

  By Evan Smith Sept. 14, 2013

  Aaronson on the state's Affordable Care Act grants, Aguilar and Root on Ted Cruz and immigration, Batheja on gravel roads, Grissom on a mentally ill death row inmate who can't be medicated, Hamilton on a new plotline in the UT-Austin vs. UT System drama, Malewitz on oilfield battery thefts, Ramsey on the Texas Supreme Court's new chief justice, Rocha on the Guadalupe River's low flows, Root on guns and the governor's race, Satija on threatened species and M. Smith on the demographic future of Texas schools: The best of our best for the week of Sept. 9 to 12, 2013. Full Story 

• TribLive: The Future of Latino Health Care

  By Evan Smith Sept. 9, 2013

  On Sept. 5, Becca Aaronson talked with Dr. Esteban López of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Dr. Amelie Ramirez of the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, on health care in what will be soon be a majority-Latino state. Full Story 

• TribLive: A Conversation With Ricardo Romo

  By Evan Smith Sept. 3, 2013

  On August 19, I talked with Ricardo Romo, the president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, about managing growth in enrollment, precipitous demographic change, graduation rates and more. Full Story 

• TribuneFest: Mental Health and Immigration

  By Evan Smith Sept. 3, 2013

  At the Trib's August 19 symposium on mental health at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Brandi Grissom talked about the intersection of mental health and immigration with a distinguished panel. Full Story 

• TribLive: What's Next for Health Care in Texas?

  By Evan Smith Aug. 30, 2013

  On August 27, I talked with U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, and Kyle Janek, executive commissioner of Texas Health and Human Services, about where the state goes next on health care. Full Story