Abby Rapoport
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For God’s Sake
On a drizzly, gray November day, the First Federated Church in Des Moines looked particularly formidable. The mega-church is a gigantic brick building, a [...] Full Story -
In Another Blow to Public Schools, Hochberg Leaving Legislature
Scott Hochberg was none too happy that everyone called him a nerd. “You can’t think of something to call me?” he groused more than [...] Full Story -
The Brains Behind the Curtain
Rick perry has said that his 2010 book “Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington” is not the kind of book one [...] Full Story -
The V.I.P. Room
It’s difficult to describe Phil Wilson’s profession. Over the past decade, Wilson, 44, has slid through six very different jobs in Texas politics. In [...] Full Story -
Who’s Sinking Faster: Rick Perry or Dave Carney?
Yesterday, the Perry presidential campaign pushed hard for attention around the governor’s latest endorsement: highly controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. Instead, most Perry headlines [...] Full Story
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Education Inc.
It’s not hard to imagine Pearson’s vision of utopia. Pearson is a London-based mega-corporation that owns everything from the Financial Times to Penguin Books, [...] Full Story -
Slash and Burn
The state of Texas’ fiscal year begins today, and unless you’re a government accountant, the date usually passes with little fanfare. But this year [...] Full Story -
Let’s Get This Party Started
The Texas Democratic Party’s futility has lasted so long, we’re running out of fresh ways to describe it. The past 15 years for Texas [...] Full Story -
The Outsider
Before most people had ever heard of Karl Rove, a heavyset, disheveled wunderkind from New Hampshire named Dave Carney was the Republican Party’s top [...] Full Story -
Tea Time
They were the most talked-about class of House freshmen in years—and they came ready to change the system. The newly-elected Tea Partiers spent months [...] Full Story
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