Politics
Is Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Headed for a Second Term?
See? They Can Debate: Candidates for the SBOE Duke It Out
At the first SBOE debate, all the candidates ran against the current board—except the one current board member
Democrat Judy Jennings wants to get on the State Board of Education to take out politics and partisan rancor. So in her first—and likely only—debate, she pl...Read More
Texas Senators Do Nothing to Save Thousands of Jobs
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Family Emergency Fund expired on September 30. Employers are now faced with laying off thousands of workers whose jobs were s...Read More
Soils and Souls: The Promise of the Land
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A poet, an economist, and a biologist walk into a barn in Kansas and start talking. What do you get when you cross their ide...Read More
Stumper of the Week: Give Dewhurst a Chance
The nuttiest things said this week in Texas politics
Every Friday from here till the end of this year’s campaign stumping season, we’re honoring the most outlandish, befuddling, illogical or just flat-...Read More
GOP Poised to Gain Clout in South Due to Surging Latino Population
From Facing South, the online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies. When Hispanics vote, most choose Democrats: In 2008, two out of three Latinos vote...Read More
Bill White’s Traveling Good-Government Show
On the Trail with the Democratic Candidate for Governor, Part One
Bill White’s campaign for governor had just 40 days to go when I met up with him on Sept. 23 in North Texas. It was the critical final day before the last...Read More
Why Don’t Texans Vote?
The poor and marginalized stay at home, while the rich and powerful cast their ballots.
By now it’s a familiar, even worn-out, storyline: In 2008, a surge of new and newly-energized voters helped propel Barack Obama into the White House. Voter tu...Read More
The Governor’s Race: We’ve Only Just Begun
Less than a month before Election Day, politicos may be losing steam but for a lot of voters, it's just getting interesting.
Well, sheesh—I’m exhausted, folks. As if a Sunday scandal about Gov. Rick Perry wasn’t enough, there were Monday’s fundraising numbers from ...Read More
Rick Perry Goes Boss Tweed on Us
Say this for our longest-serving governor: The man knows how to return a favor. It’s become clear, a decade into Rick Perry’s tenure, that he takes good car...Read More
