The Brief: Oct. 7, 2010
The plot's still thickening in the incident on Falcon Lake. Full Story
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Interactive: Ads Infinitum
Since The Texas Tribune launched in November 2009, the Ads Infinitum blog has collected and posted political advertisements — more than 70 in all — from candidates in both parties running for various offices during the primary and general election campaigns. We recently went back and collected data on all the ads we've posted and created a treemap data visualization so readers could sort them across categories. Transcripts of the ads and the videos themselves are also available via an interactive table. View the treemap and a video tutorial on how to use it. Full Story
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Data Explainer: Campaign Ad Treemap
How to use our latest interactive. Full Story
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Show Us the Money
With a month to go before Election Day, challengers in fifteen House races outraised incumbents during the most recent reporting period, according to the most recent filings with the Texas Ethics Commission. In eight of those races, the challengers led in combined spending and saving, a rough measure of each campaign's financial strength. Full Story
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Clay Boatright: The TT Interview
The new president of the Arc of Texas on why the disability community’s rallying cry to close state-supported living centers has become trite and ineffective, why the movement's messaging should be upgraded (employing everything from the iPad to the Bible) and why businesses and faith-based groups should be mobilized to fill the gaping holes in government services. Full Story
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The Weekly TribCast: Episode 49
In this week's skirmish, topics include campaign cash, the latest polls in the governor's race, the hotbed of Texas House activity in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the consequences of the budget crisis. Full Story
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TribBlog: More Waiting for Willingham
Navarro County prosecutor R. Lowell Thompson's request that Judge Charlie Baird recuse himself from the Cameron Todd Willingham court of inquiry hearing wasn't decided today. Full Story
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TribBlog: Search for a Body on Falcon Lake
The office of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has offered to help Mexican authorities in the search for a U.S. man officials say was shot and killed on Falcon Lake in South Texas. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Bill Flores' "Loyalty"
The latest ad from the Bill Flores campaign links difficult economic times to U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards' support of Nancy Pelosi. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Oct. 6, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: Perry 48, White 43
Republican Gov. Rick Perry leads Democratic challenger Bill White by 5 percent in a new poll. Full Story
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The Brief: Oct. 6, 2010
Controversy could thwart Cameron Todd Willingham's day back in court. Full Story
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Patriot Games?
The lawyer behind a massive voter registration drive in Harris County has filed a defamation suit against a Tea Party group, the King Street Patriots, that sought to link the as-yet-unsuccessful effort to turn out more than 100,000 new voters to the New Black Panthers. Full Story
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Where They Stand: HD-48
Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune looks at where the candidates running in House District 48 stand on the issue of education. Full Story
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The Prosecution Objects
Fifteen years ago Judge Charlie Baird was one of the justices on the state’s highest criminal court who reaffirmed Cameron Todd Willingham’s death sentence. On Wednesday, Baird is scheduled to begin a process that could determine whether that conviction and Willingham’s execution were wrong. And the prosecution objects. Full Story
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2010: The Wages of Sin
If the state needs money to balance its budget, it should look first to sin taxes on gambling, alcohol and marijuana. Full Story
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TribBlog: Mr. Ten Percent?
A court filing provides 59 hints as to what the state's case against state Rep. Ismael "Kino" Flores, D-Palmview, will look like when his trial for ethics charges begins on Oct. 18. Full Story
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TribBlog: A Vision for D.C.
Gov. Rick Perry continued to tout Texas’ superiority to the nation’s capital and the rest of the country when he spoke to the Clean Carbon Policy Summit in Austin this afternoon. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Oct. 5, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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TribBlog: Most Latinos Still Support Democrats
Democratic candidates who fear waning support during what political analysts call an “anti-incumbent” atmosphere can still count on Latino voters, according to a Pew Hispanic Center study released today. Full Story
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