2010: 83.5% Chance of Republican
Forecasters say incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Perry has an 83.5 percent chance of a defeating Democratic challenger Bill White in November. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Perry's "On The Trail With Bill White"
Gov. Rick Perry's campaign hit the trail with his challenger, Bill White, and captured what it considers to be humorous moments for a new web video posted today. Full Story
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2010: Perry's Debate Deadline
Gov. Rick Perry delivered an ultimatum to his leading challenger, Bill White: Release your tax returns by Sept. 15 or "the people of Texas will not get the opportunity to see the candidates debate." Full Story
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2010: Bill White's Border Security Plan [Updated]
Gubernatorial candidate Bill White unveiled a border security plan today and chided Gov. Rick Perry over border cameras and his "unauthorized" spending of security money. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Aug. 31, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: The Return of Term Limits
Taking a page out of the Kay Bailey Hutchison handbook, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White called for gubernatorial term limits today. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: White's "Rick Perry's Lobbyist Ball"
The latest ad from the Bill White campaign attacks the governor's well-placed friends. Full Story
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Perry: "I'm Not an Unknown"
The governor depicted by Democrats as a coward in statewide newspaper ads last week doesn't seem nervous. In fact, as he traveled from Killeen to Temple and on to Texarkana last week accompanied by a reporter from The Texas Tribune, Republican Rick Perry looked comfortable, though he says he's taking his Democratic challenger, Bill White, seriously. Full Story
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The Huddled Masses
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana exiles have fundamentally changed Houston, and vice-versa. The uneasy arrangement was a shotgun marriage: Many evacuees had no choice in whether or where they went, and Houstonians had no choice, for humanity's sake, but to take them in. Full Story
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Hu compares and contrasts the official schedules of four big-state governors (including Rick Perry) and picks the 21 Texas House races to watch, Ramshaw on a 19-year-old with an IQ of 47 sentenced to 100 years in prison, Stiles on Perry's regent-donors, Galbraith on a plan to curb the independence of the state's electricity grid, Thevenot on the turf war over mental health, Grissom on whether the Texas Youth Commission should be abolished, Aguilar on a crucial immigration-related case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ramsey's interview with GOP provocateur Debra Medina and M. Smith on how changes to campaign finance law will affect judicial elections in Texas: The best of our best from August 23 to 27, 2010. Full Story
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The Brief: Aug. 27, 2010
Perry or no Perry, the show — Texas news outlets have decided — must go on. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Aug. 26, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Aug. 25, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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TribBlog: Chronicle Nixes Ad Calling Perry "Coward"
In 24 newspapers around the state, a full-page ad ran this week with a picture of Gov. Rick Perry and the word "coward" in large, capital letters. Back to Basics PAC, the anti-Perry group behind the ad, was hoping that number would be 25. Full Story
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The Brief: Aug. 24, 2010
It's back to school for Texas students, and back to controversy for Texas regents. Full Story
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An Interview with Debra Medina
An Interview with former GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina Full Story
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Debra Medina: The TT Interview
The third-place finisher in this year's GOP gubernatorial primary on whether she'll vote for Rick Perry, how she feels about the mosque near Ground Zero and what her reaction to Glenn Beck should have been. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: Aug. 23, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: Rasmussen: Perry 49, White 41
Republican Gov. Rick Perry maintains an 8-point lead over Democratic challenger Bill White, according to the latest statewide poll by Rasmussen Reports. Full Story
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Accounts Playable
The 2,694 political committees and campaigns that filed mid-year reports with the Texas Ethics Commission together held $167 million in their accounts, but only 274 of them had more than $100,000 on hand. Our interactive chart tells you who or what they are and how much they've banked. Full Story
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