Over on our Transportation blog, Staff Writer Michael Lindenberger makes note of an interview Kinky Friedman gave to Politico, the Washington political news site. In it, the country-singer-turned-gubernatorial-candidate says his chances of winning in November are "excellent." And he minces...
Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, has announced that he will run for re-election to the Texas House. Branch, a lawyer with the firm of Winstead, had been contemplating a run for state attorney general if the incumbent, fellow Republican Greg Abbott,...
Word is that the Obama administration is shifting its policy toward Sudan to one based on working with the country's government instead of isolating it. Texas is part of the isolation effort. The Legislature passed a law aimed at blocking...
Our Washington Bureau chief, Todd J. Gillman, is at Texas A&M University for a campus appearance by President Barack Obama. Here are some photos Todd took of the hundreds of protesters gathering for the president's arrival. Some of the protesters...
Texas lost another 62,200 jobs last month and the unemployment rate has risen to 8 percent. That's up from 7.9 percent the month before. Texas is better off than the nation as a whole (9.7 percent unemployment), but clearly the...
The Los Angeles Times notes today that, thanks in part to the economic downturn, California could lose a House seat after the 2010 Census, for the first time in ages. And Texas, still growing, is expected to add a few....
The thesis isn't new, but journalist John Farrell offers a fresh analysis of the numbers that suggests Texas is a big-state electoral nightmare in the making for Republicans. With or without harsh GOP rhetoric over immigration to drive Latinos to...
Vice President Joe Biden heads to Texas next Tuesday, mostly to help shake the money tree, his office just announced. He'll be in Austin first, visiting the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center and appearing at a lunch to raise money...
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh weighs in today on the firestorm that Rick Perry caused over Texas seceeding from the union. Perry said at one of the "tea party" protests against federal government spending that he isn't advocating secession, but...
Gov. Rick Perry says he's delighted that Rush Limbaugh has mentioned maybe moving to Texas. And the governor is throwing out the welcome mat to the conservative radio talker. Limbaugh says he's tired of the taxes in New York and...
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh might have Texas in his sights as he considers abandoning New York because of taxes. El Rusbo lives and has broadcast studios in both NY and Florida. But in his radio show, Limbaugh says rising...
Texas hero Stephen F. Austin has a new home in the halls of Congress. One hundred statues decorate the Capitol. Kind of like Senators, each state has two. Mr. Austin's statue had pretty prime real estate-- a spot near...
From Norman Lear to Oliver Stone, Jane Fonda to Susan Sarandon, Hollywood has a long tradition of cultivating lefty celebs. On the other side of the fence, there's TV tough guy Chuck Norris The star of "Walker, Texas Ranger" is...
Tom Schieffer, former president of the Texas Rangers and a U.S. ambassador under President George W. Bush, says he's considering running for Texas governor --as a Democrat. "I've thought about it for a while," he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram....
In Austin today, Kay Bailey Hutchison offered up her view of the economic stimulus package on the table in Washington: It's too bloated, but if it passes, Texas has to take the money. Of course, the politics of this are...
From the what-if department, Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, says that if the campaign had focused on the Texas primary back in March, Obama might have won it. And that would have curtailed the drawn-out fright with Hillary Rodham...
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison comes out with guns blazing in a new fundraising appeal that targets Gov. Rick Perry as a failed leader presiding over a record of scandal and incompentence. Here's a choice line from the mailer: Ten years...
The jockeying continues: Roll Call says John Cornyn wants Greg Abbott to take Kay Bailey Hutchison's place. (Roll Call is a subscription site, but you get the idea.) Cornyn, of course, has particular interest not just because of who he...
The prospects of a Perry-Hutchison matchup for governor of Texas in 2010 is getting a lot of attention around the country this morning -- especially when there's a bit of Texas bravado involved. The Christian Science Monitor has a funny...
For months, there's been speculation about whether Kay Bailey Hutchison would resign if she challenges Gov. Rick Perry. And the conventional wisdom -- which is still alive this morning in some news reports -- is that she intends to resign...
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