Over at the transportation blog, we have an updated analysis of Perry and the gas tax question. You can read it here....
Couple of tidbits on our Transportation blog that you political junkies might enjoy: Michael Lindenberger, our transportation writer extraordinaire, breaks down a new report by the Texas Public Interest Research Group on campaign donations from transportation interests. Michael is also following...
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...
The claim: "Texans deserve a straight yes or no from Rick Perry on whether he still supports his controversial TransTexas Corridor plan to confiscate nearly 600,000 acres of land," a Hutchison campaign news release says. The facts: Perry hasn't said...
Deirdre Delisi, Gov. Rick Perry's former chief of staff and now his appointee to lead the Texas Transportation Commission, is defending privatization and toll roads. Michael Lindenberger has the details on the Transportation blog....
Michael Lindenberger, who I am beginning to think never sleeps, has the details on our Transportation blog....
So says Michael Lindenberger over on our Transportation blog. He rounds up some recent news and says now is the time for Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison to lay out how we should pay for roads and rail. Check...
Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, says he's a "firm no" against the proposed local option transportation tax provision in the TxDOT sunset bill. "It's a terrible time to take money out of the efficient private sector and put it in the...
Dallas Republican Sen. John Carona, the Senate's chief transportation policy writer, says he's compromised enough on local option transportation taxes: If they're not included in the bill to reauthorize the Texas Department of Transportation, he'll kill it. "I will absolutely...
More local transportation news from Lindenberger over on the Transportation blog: the House transportaiton chairman, Joe Pickett, tells Michael that that local-option bill that North Texas reps have spent some time on is in real trouble. Read it here, and...
Michael Lindenberger fleshes out the Senate transportation poobah's concerns over on our Transportation blog....
We have published a couple stories this week about Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's ideas for boosting transportation funding for Texas. See here and here. It is likely that, unless some grand bargain is struck that we can't imagine right now,...
Hey, Lege-heads: if you haven't seen it, you should check out our Transportation blog, where Michael Lindenberger, Rodger Jones and Ted Kim are keeping tabs on transportation policy-making in Austin. Today, Michael brings us an update from Rep. Joe Pickett,...
The House's special committee on the federal economic stimulus money is hearing from the public this week about how to spend the billions Texas will get. Among the topics: public education (K through 12), higher education, criminal justice and transportation....
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