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Buoyed by recent polling numbers in the Texas governor's race, Republican nominee Greg Abbott touted his support among female voters during a Wednesday campaign stop, less than a week before the Nov. 4 election.

Morgan Smith: http://trib.it/1DwwMtE

T-Squared: The Shale Life project, the culmination of months of reporting on the people and communities behind Texas' energy boom, launches today. It's our first-ever project that's entirely visual — and also the first we've financed via crowdfunding. #shalelife

Editor Emily Ramshaw: http://trib.it/1CSp9NI

Texas is a red state when it comes to electoral politics. But in its second-largest county, some Republican incumbents are playing defense. And at least one other is hoping for an upset in the heart of Dallas County.

Ross Ramsey: http://trib.it/1xBsTl2

Telling a story writ large; An unvarnished interview with T. Boone Pickens; UT/TT Poll: Conditional support for same-sex unions; In blue Dallas County, Republicans play defense; San Antonio man executed in triple slaying; GOP issues rare retraction of HD-105 flyers.

John Reynolds with The Brief for Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014: http://trib.it/1tIOWbx

Today in TribTalk:
Water pipeline project is wrong for San Antonio, by Amy Hardberger http://trib.it/1yHvN92

Former San Antonio gang member Miguel Angel Paredes was executed Tuesday for his role in a 2002 slaying that left three people dead.

“To the victim’s family, I want you to know that I hope you let go of all of the hate because of all my actions,” Paredes said before he was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at 6:32 p.m. “I came in as a lion and I come as peaceful as a lamb. I’m at peace. “

Terri Langford: http://trib.it/1rNL03F

Reeve, Ross, Emily and Jay gab about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, an unexpected apology in a race for a seat in the Texas House, and the release of the Trib's Shale Life Project.

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The legendary oilman reflects on plunging oil prices, cranky folks in Denton and silly congressmen.

Energy reporter Jim Malewitz sits down for an unvarnished interview with T. Boone Pickens: http://trib.it/1nNQpeC

Texas is a red state when it comes to electoral politics. But in its second-largest county, some Republican incumbents are playing defense. And at least one other is hoping for an upset in the heart of Dallas County.

Ross Ramsey: http://trib.it/1xBsTlb

How an explosion in oil and gas production is changing lives and fortunes across Texas. #shalelife

Drill deep with our 15-part multimedia project: http://trib.it/shale-life

Where there’s oil and natural gas, there’s money to be made and jobs to be found. But the challenges these dramatic booms present for communities across South and West Texas are immense. Use our 15-part multimedia series — the result of more than six months of reporting from the state's most active shale plays — to see how surging energy production is changing lives and fortunes across Texas. #shalelife

The Texas Tribune staff: http://trib.it/shale-life

Texas regulators on Tuesday tightened rules for wells that dispose of oilfield waste, a response to the spate of earthquakes that have rattled North Texas.

More from energy reporter Jim Malewitz: http://trib.it/1DqOxdC