Election 2012: The Big Picture Shows Record Cost of Winning a Seat in Congress OpenSecrets.org's newly updated 2012 data, released today in the Historical Elections part of our site, shows that the cost of getting...

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Open Secrets

Comment of the Day Runner-Up: How To Kill the Grid in the East End “What happened when the quiet zone went in in the First Ward? Every street got closed. Holly, Goliad, Hickory, Johnson, Colorado,...

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Swamplot

See Houston Sprawl Putting Google’s Landsat Annual Time Lapse function to work, Texas architect Samuel Aston Williams has created animated .GIFs that...

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Swamplot

Dewhurst tweet brags about closing abortion clinics During the lengthy late-night abortion debate in the Texas Senate Tuesday, advocates of a  bill requiring abortions to be performed in...

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San Antonio Express-News

What Houston’s New Phillips 66 Global HQ Might Look Like This rendering appears to show the new Phillips 66 global headquarters planned to go up in Westchase. Back in September, the...

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Swamplot

Legislators blast prosecutor association for Twitter taunts The Texas District and County Attorneys Association was called out in the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee today for "demagoguery" on...

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Grits for Breakfast

Perry visits Park Avenue, unleashes new ad on New York While the Texas Senate was sweating over the issue of abortion regulations that Gov. Rick Perry added to the special-session agenda last...

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San Antonio Express-News

Hines Buying Up Museum District Property To Build Highrise Apartments A few sources are telling Swamplot that Hines is planning to build either a 20- or 22-story apartment tower on the entire city block where...

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Swamplot

Beware of platform shrinkers Platform shrinkers are the mortal enemies of responsible conservative outcomes. Moderates love to push for platform shrinking –...

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AgendaWise

JUNE 19 / Ferguson on regulation IN "DEMOCRACY in America," published in 1833, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the way Americans preferred voluntary association to...

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Unca Darrell