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On Friday night, the Trib's Alana Rocha and other veteran Capitol reporters discussed the crazy news week that was, including a monumental Supreme Court decision and the tumultuous end of the special session. Full Story
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Our wall-to-wall coverage of the headline-making, ground-quaking filibuster that ended the first called special session of the 83rd Legislature: Aguilar, Aaronson, Root and Luthra's liveblog of the fateful events, Dehn with video of the explosive final moments, Batheja on the shouts heard 'round the world, M. Smith (with Tumulty of The Washington Post) on Wendy Davis' political prospects, Ramsey on what the Democrats do now, Root on Rick Perry making it personal, Ramsey on David Dewhurst's bad week, Grissom and Batheja on other bills that didn't pass and Hamilton, Ramsey, Aaronson and I go deep on the podcast: The best of our best content from June 24-28, 2013. Full Story
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Our coverage of this week's historic events at the Lege was entirely in keeping with our mission. Your generous donations will help us carry that access, transparency and accountability forward. Full Story
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This week we say goodbye to Kate Galbraith, our chief reporter on energy and the environment. For the last three years she made our audience smarter, and she made all of us around her smarter, too. Full Story
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Full video of Thursday's TribLive conversation about Texas Monthly's list of the Best and Worst Legislators, with Paul Burka, Erica Grieder, Sonia Smith and Brian D. Sweany. Full Story
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Here's full video of my May 30 TribLive conversation debriefing the 83rd Legislature with state Sens. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, and Kirk Watson, D-Austin. Full Story
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At Thursday's TribLive conversation, state Sens. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, and Kirk Watson, D-Austin, talked about the 83rd Legislature's approach to public education reform. Full Story
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At Thursday's TribLive conversation, state Sens. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, and Kirk Watson, D-Austin, explained their different votes on the state budget. Full Story
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At Thursday's TribLive conversation, state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, addressed the rumors that he's considering a run for lieutenant governor in 2014. Full Story
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Full video of my 5/23 TribLive conversation debriefing the 83rd Legislature with state Reps. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, and Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio. Full Story
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