Past Contributions

• TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

  By Evan Smith April 27, 2013

  Aaronson on Medicaid fraud, Aguilar on critics of a federal immigration reform bill, Batheja on Rick Perry and the Rainy Day Fund, Galbraith on a nuclear reactor's return, Hamilton on campus carry, Hooks on free breakfasts for poor students, Murphy and Rocha interactively track gun legislation, Ramsey on prosecutors behaving badly, Root on the oil lobby's lizard, my school finance sit-down with four public ed vets, M. Smith on the A-F school ratings plan and White on Galveston five years after Ike: The best of our best content from April 22-26, 2013. Full Story 

• TribLive: A Conversation About School Finance

  By Evan Smith April 24, 2013

  On April 19, I talked with former House Public Education Committee chairmen Rob Eissler and Kent Grusendorf, former vice chairman Scott Hochberg and attorney David Thompson about the perennially unresolved question of how the state should fund public education. Full Story 

• TribLive: A Conversation About the Environment

  By Evan Smith April 23, 2013

  Full video of Kate Galbraith's 4/22 TribLive conversation about the state of the environment in Texas with Laura Huffman, state director of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, Jim Marston, director of the Texas regional office of the Environmental Defense Fund and Bryan Shaw, chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Full Story 

• TribLive: Shaw and Marston on Texas vs. the EPA

  By Evan Smith April 22, 2013

  At Monday's TribLive conversation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan Shaw and James Marston of the Environmental Defense Fund talked about the ongoing war between Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency. Full Story 

• TribLive: Huffman on Water and the Lege

  By Evan Smith April 22, 2013

  At Monday's TribLive conversation, Laura Huffman, the Texas state director of The Nature Conservancy, talked about the prospects for meaningful water legislation to emerge from the 83rd session. Full Story 

• TribLive: Marston and Shaw on the West Explosion

  By Evan Smith April 22, 2013

  At Monday's TribLive conversation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan Shaw and James Marston of the Environmental Defense Fund talked about the causes and implications of last week's tragedy in West. Full Story 

• TribLive: A Conversation With Tony Garza

  By Evan Smith April 19, 2013

  Full video of my April 18 TribLive conversation with former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza. Full Story 

• TribLive: Garza on Mexico

  By Evan Smith April 18, 2013

  At Thursday's TribLive conversation, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza assessed the still-nascent presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto and discussed lingering concerns over safety south of the border. Full Story 

• TribLive: Garza on Latinos and the GOP

  By Evan Smith April 18, 2013

  At Thursday's TribLive conversation, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza talked about the efforts of Republicans — nationally and in Texas — to attract Latino voters. Full Story 

• TribLive: Garza on Immigration Reform

  By Evan Smith April 18, 2013

  At Thursday's TribLive conversation, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza talked about the rationale for comprehensive immigration reform and the prospects for passage. Full Story