The latest Griffin Perry news from The Texas Tribune.
A recurring theme questioned the status quo of the boards that govern higher education at this week’s day-long meeting of the Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence, and Transparency: Are the boards that govern higher education due for more restrictive conflict-of-interest policies? Full Story
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In the Texas press corps, the natives are getting restless. Full Story
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In this edition of the Texas Tribune Weekend Insider, executive editor Ross Ramsey talks about the influence super PACs have on political campaigns, and reporter Kate Galbraith explains the challenges Texas faces with its wind power boom. Full Story
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Your afternoon reading: Perry's polling lags in Iowa as he struggles with likability; a media war breaks out around Michael Morton: drought likely to worsen in winter. Full Story
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Has Rick Perry found his own “9-9-9”? Tune in to his economic speech next week to find out! Full Story
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You won't hear about the water problems out West during the GOP presidential debate, but as Ben Philpott reports for KUT News and the Texas Tribune, the problems are there — and the next President could play a role in the solutions. Full Story
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This week on the TribCast, Ross, Reeve, Kate, and Emily discuss the recent GOP debate, drought and wildfire preparedness, and the future of Texas higher education. Full Story
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President Barack Obama released an updated list of volunteer fundraisers, known as "bundlers," who raise money on his behalf. Of the more than 350 bundlers listed, 17 Texas fundraisers have collected more than $2.7 million. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry, giving a sneak peek of his forthcoming economic policy initiative, called for a flat tax Wednesday in Las Vegas. It was a confident delivery from a governor who seems to have gotten his swagger back. Full Story
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Your afternoon reading: Perry lays out plans for a flat tax; rivalry between Perry and Romney gets personal; five men are arrested in San Antonio for either a strange prank or a terrorist plot. Full Story
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A new Rick Perry showed up to the GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas. In his strongest performance yet, Perry took every opportunity to attack Mitt Romney, and to turn the attention back to his talking points and rehearsed lines. Full Story
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We liveblogged the CNN/Western Republican Leadership Conference debate at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, where Gov. Rick Perry had one more shot to make a better impression before a several-week debate hiatus. Full Story
If Gov. Rick Perry can make it through tonight's Republican debate unscathed, he might be in the clear. Full Story
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For Gov. Rick Perry, the best news about tonight’s nationally televised debate may be what comes next: fewer nationally televised debates. Full Story
Gov. Rick Perry may be taking a softer-than-expected approach with Mitt Romney. At least for now. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry "hates" cervical cancer, which is why he tried to make the HPV vaccine mandatory. Yet he signed a budget that defunds Planned Parenthood, which provides four times more cervical cancer screenings in Texas than abortions. Full Story
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Critics largely gave Gov. Rick Perry a pass for hunting on a deer lease that once carried an ugly racist name. But one of his attack ads from 1990 is still making racially tinged waves. Full Story
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The Trib's Jay Root and Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times take a look at what powerful lobbyist Mike Toomey has done to help Rick Perry as governor — and how he's trying to get him elected president of the United States. Full Story
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Aaronson interactively asks if stimulus funds created jobs in Texas, Aguilar on new voter registrar rules that could decrease voter turnout, Galbraith on a UT professor's debunking of climate change "myths," Grissom on an epic clash of El Paso political titans, Hamilton on the right's new higher ed guru, Murphy maps household data from the 2010 Census, Ramsey on a coming rules fight in the Texas Senate, Root and M. Smith on Rick Perry's performance at the New Hampshire debate and M. Smith talks public ed cuts with the state's Superintendent of the Year: The best of our best content from October 10-14, 2011. Full Story
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Gov. Rick Perry today submitted his third quarter campaign finance report to the Federal Election Commission, reporting that his PAC, RickPerry.org Inc, raised $17 million from August 1 to September 30. Full Story
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