Photojournalist Caleb Bryant Miller and KUT reporter Nathan Bernier went to Crawford, Texas to see how this small town on the outskirts of Waco is doing after eight years of W-fueled tourism.
Texas Tribune’s Ross Ramsey sat down with Kip Averitt to talk about his time in the Texas Legislature.
“Kip Averitt does not want to return to the Texas Senate — but depending on how tonight’s special election run-off to replace him goes, the recently retired Republican Waco state senator says ‘it’s a remote chance.’”
Some interesting thoughts from Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka.
For the ninth event in [their] TribLive series, [Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith] interviewed Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst about the budget shortfall, state-federal tensions, immigration, why he doesn’t release his taxes and his future plans.
“This race will focus on two key facts. First, I am a champion for our veterans and military families and have worked effectively on a bipartisan basis for jobs and economic development for our district. Second, Mr. Flores has been recruited by Washington, D.C. insiders to try to buy our district’s congressional seat with millions of dollars he has made as a Houston oil executive, even though he has never once voted in a general election in our district-not even once.”
It seems the text book decisions recently made by the Texas State Board of Education are raising eyebrows.
“Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.”
02/16/10: Greta Van Susteren’s interview with Ken Starr
In case you missed it!
Darren Yancy, a Republican candidate from Burleson who wants to replace state Sen. Kip Averitt, of Waco, had an interesting conversation with The Conservative Movement WebTV a few months back.
Texas GOP Showdown: Featuring Governor Rick Perry, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina.
For the first of Texas Tribune’s TribLive events, Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief and CEO Evan Smith interviewed the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives about his first session leading his colleagues, the coming budget turmoil, the controversial plans for a renovation of the Governor’s Mansion, the “scary as hell” health care reforms in play in Congress, and, of course, the titanic battle of Rick vs. Kay.
Farouk Shami’s TV spot: “Ending Business as Usual.”









