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- Dvorak: White House tour gives homeless teens room to hope
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- Casey: Goodbye Cactus Cafe, long live Austin's music scene
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- Miller: Education shouldn't take a back seat to politics
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MARCH PRIMARY EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS
- Diligence, leadership overdue in East Travis County
- Turnover in Travis County's state district courts gives voters lots of choices
- Stick with incumbent Carrillo at Railroad Commission
- Chavez-Thompson is best Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor
- Race for House seat and Hays County posts offer clear choices
- Workman, McGuinness the better choices in local House primaries
- Tough choices for GOP voters in judicial races
- Voters can end dysfunction at State Board of Education
- Bill White gets Democratic endorsement with low-key, reasoned approach to problem solving
- Hutchison brings grown-up approach to working on behalf of Texans and gets endorsement in GOP race
Ben Sargent retired from the Statesman in 2009. His cartoon now runs weekly. View his most recent cartoon | Search his archives
We start the new year with a list of familiar concerns, and that familiarity
should breed contempt.
