The Brief: San Antonio on Verge of Big Water Play
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Questions continue to be raised about a giant water pipeline project that would pump roughly 16 billion gallons of groundwater annually from Burleson County to San Antonio.
Full StoryOn Oct. 3, 2013, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, ended months of speculation when she announced her candidacy for governor of Texas. Held at the auditorium where she graduated from high school, her announcement settled the question of whether she’d run at the top of the ticket, but it’s also expected to open the way for Democratic ...
Questions continue to be raised about a giant water pipeline project that would pump roughly 16 billion gallons of groundwater annually from Burleson County to San Antonio.
Full StoryBuoyed 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.
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The Tribune today launches its 15-part The Shale Life series, which tells in a variety of visual styles the stories of those who are living through the effects, both good and bad, of the shale boom in Texas.
Full StoryMonday night was a big one for a pair of Texas politicos who were both given a national stage from which to galvanize support among their respective voter bases.
Full StoryAttorney General Greg Abbott has raised over $45 million in the race for Texas governor, including about $4 million in the last month alone.
Full StoryDemocrat Wendy Davis, trying to energize young voters on the University of Texas campus in Austin Monday, said she’s seeing hopeful turnout trends despite a torrent of polls that show she’s losing the governor’s race to Attorney General Greg Abbott by double digits.
Full StoryBorder security and immigration top the list of concerns in Texas, according to the most recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Full StoryGOP statewide candidates uniformly hold sizeable advantages over their Democratic rivals.
Full StoryRepublican Greg Abbott holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Wendy Davis in the race for governor of Texas, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. In other statewide races on the ballot, most Republicans hold even larger leads over their Democratic opponents.
Full StoryWhile many Democrats in southern states are running away from Barack Obama as fast as they can, Sen. Wendy Davis leaned into her embrace of the president on Wednesday, saying she valued his support and would welcome him on the campaign trail.
Full StoryCriticism by state leaders of the Obama administration for failures in the response to the Ebola virus omits mention of the tools at the state's disposal that were not used.
Full StoryHere are some dispatches from around the state on the first day of early voting.
Full StoryVoters can cast ballots today for the Nov. 4 general election as the two-week early voting period commences.
Full StoryWith the early voting starting tomorrow, this week's edition of WFAA-TV's Inside Texas Politics with host David Schechter, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Bud Kennedy and Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey has a decidedly electoral slant.
Full StoryWednesday amounted to a daylong series of body blows to those who thought that authorities had things under control in the response to the diagnosis of Ebola in Dallas.
Full StorySeveral days into the media firestorm over the release of an ad that features an empty wheelchair, Sen. Wendy Davis isn’t pulling back one inch from the harsh attacks on Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Full StoryIn an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC, Democratic governor hopeful Wendy Davis defends an ad, which features an empty wheelchair, that criticizes her Republican opponent, Greg Abbott.
Full StoryNow that the deadline for filing 30-day campaign finance reports ahead of the Nov. 4 election has passed, we can get a better snapshot of the financial health of Texas candidates. Use this tool to search data for all statewide, State Board of Education and legislative candidates who filed electronically with the Texas Ethics Commission. You can see the top-line totals for contributions, expenditures, loans and cash on hand for each campaign.
Full StoryGov. Rick Perry will have to spend part of his Halloween in an Austin courtroom. Perry was excused from a pre-trial hearing on Monday, but he must be at the next one, the presiding judge in the case determined.
Full StoryWendy Davis responded Monday to criticism of her controversial wheelchair ad, saying the ad was aimed at pointing out hypocrisy in Greg Abbott's actions.
Full StoryConfirmation came Sunday afternoon that a second person has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus in Dallas.
Full StoryThe pollster for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis defended her controversial TV commercial Sunday, saying it’s working as intended despite widespread criticism that using the image of an empty wheelchair in an attack ad on a disabled candidate was mean-spirited and unfair.
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State Sen. Wendy Davis touched off a political firestorm Friday with a 30-second TV ad that slams Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for working against people with disabilities and others who filed lawsuits even though he sued — and won a big settlement — after a falling tree paralyzed him from the waist down two decades ago.
Full StoryA federal district judge in Corpus Christi ruled against the state's voter ID law, injecting a note of drama into the run-up to the general elections.
Full StoryA sad chapter was marked Wednesday in the story of Ebola in Texas with the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who flew to Dallas to join family only to be diagnosed with the deadly disease after arriving.
Full StoryRepublican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott campaigned with former Hewlett-Packard CEO and prominent Republican Carly Fiorina on Wednesday in an effort to appeal to more women voters.
Full StoryCandidates for three of the eight major statewide races on this year’s November ballot appear likely to reach Election Day without ever engaging in a debate with their opponent. Televised debates were recently scheduled for the races for U.S. Senate and state comptroller.
Full StoryAttorney General Greg Abbott, showing off his fundraising chops over the last three months, pulled in more than a dozen six-figure donations, spent about $200,000 a day and still had more than $30 million in the bank for the final stretch of the Texas governor’s race.
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