The Texas Weekly Hotlist, General Election 2014
In which we rank the races by risk to the incumbents and/or the level of drama for candidates and voters in the state's congressional and legislative races.
Full StoryIn which we rank the races by risk to the incumbents and/or the level of drama for candidates and voters in the state's congressional and legislative races.
Full StoryAlso, Univision scores a U.S. Senate debate, and a new state senator invokes the Holocaust at his swearing-in.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: A confirmed case of Ebola in Dallas is testing the state's public health emergency response system. Also, the nominees for governor and lieutenant governor debated.
Full StoryFor this week's nonscientific survey of insiders in politics and governments, we asked about a recent audit of the Texas Enterprise Fund, its future, and the political fallout.
Full StoryKey meetings and events for the coming week.
Full StoryHe volunteered that he had traveled to Africa. That information was not fully disseminated.
Mark Lester, the southeast clinical leader for the parent company of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, on why the man who was later diagnosed with the country's first case of Ebola was initially sent home with antibiotics
I think sweating bullets is probably the right term. I would be concerned.
Ed Barker, a former hospital system general counsel, to Texas Lawyer on the potential legal issues raised by that two-day delay in putting the Ebola patient in isolation
Politics is much more difficult than war. In politics, there are so many more fronts.
Masoud Barzani, now president of Iraq's semiautonomous region, to The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins in 2005 after wrapping up work on the country's new constitution
At this point it's 90/10 he's in. And honestly, 90 is lowballing it.
An unnamed Ted Cruz advisor, telling National Journal the odds of a Cruz candidacy for president in 2016. The assessment was quickly discounted by Cruz via a Facebook post.
They’re entitled to opine upon it. In fact, it’s their job to opine upon it. But it’s an opinion.
Libertarian nominee for governor Kathie Glass with her take during Thursday's TribLive conversation on the scope of the judiciary's power to interpret the constitutionality of laws
A patient at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was diagnosed Tuesday with Ebola, the first such infection to appear in the U.S. The diagnosis spurred a response by both the federal and state governments, including a quarantine of the infected man's family. Scrutiny also fell on the hospital after it was revealed the patient was sent home before he was put in isolation two days later.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday lifted a stay issued by a lower court that had blocked enforcement of the law passed last year subjecting Texas abortion clinics to new restrictions. Eight clinics in the state remain open while a challenge to the law continues to make its way through the legal system.
Debates were held this week between the major party nominees for governor and lieutenant governor. Both debates were characterized by tough stances taken by the candidates as they made their likely last appearances together on stage before the Nov. 4 general election.
The state's highest criminal appellate court refused to reinstate money-laundering convictions against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The appeals court upheld the Third Court of Appeals' ruling reversing the 2010 convictions.
The state will appeal a district judge's ruling against the school fincance system, according to a filing made late last week. The appeal goes directly to the Texas Supreme Court.
Dave Mann has joined the staff of Texas Monthly as senior editor. A longtime fixture at the Texas Observer, Mann joined that publication in 2003 and was made editor in 2011.
Alan Gray has left the Licensed Beverage Distributors after 22 years there, the last six as executive director. He has since hung out his own shingle, Alan Gray Advocacy and Consulting, which he said is a general lobbying operation.
Ken Paxton, the GOP nominee for attorney general, was endorsed by the political arm of the Texas Farm Bureau.
The political arm of the Texas Medical Association endorsed GOP comptroller candidate Glenn Hegar and Wayne Faircloth, the GOP nominee for the Galveston-based HD-23. The district is considered one of the House's few swing districts.
Libby Willis, the Democratic candidate in Tarrant County-based SD-10, was endorsed by the Texas Parent PAC, which backs public education-oriented legislative candidates. SD-10 is considered the one swing district in the Senate.
Former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby endorsed fellow Democrat Leticia Van de Putte, who is running for his old job.
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