Obama's Bain Backers If President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's long career at Bain Capital are a liability, as some Democrats now worry, they don't seem to...

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Open Secrets

The Campaign Dollar Gender Gap A new poll shows that mitt Romney may have narrowed the gender gap between himself and Barack Obama somewhat in terms of voters -- he's...

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Open Secrets

Cottage Industry in Garden Oaks Taken down to its studs: This home’s renovation project is in the works on a quarter-acre corner lot backing up to the feeder road...

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Swamplot

Federal judge: Parole board members may be personally liable for 'Condition X' due-process violations Last year Grits wondered aloud if the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had created massive civil liability for themselves and the state...

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Grits for Breakfast

Joe Straus Straggler Update With a week to go before elections we are once again looking at campaign finance reports. As was the case in the last reporting period Joe...

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AgendaWise

Taking Down the Letters on the Alabama Theater Sign Going on now: “The owner of the company taking down the Alabama theater sign letters says ‘the plan’ is to restore them...

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Swamplot

Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Except the Unemployment Rate On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released official jobs data for Texas and, as my colleague Chuck DeVore pointed out in an earlier...

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Texas Public Policy Foundation

Inside Intelligence: Who's Voting? By Ross Ramsey This week, we took one last look at the primary races, hitting Republicans this time and focusing on Congress. In races with...

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Texas Tribune

Raging Elephants takes on Big Jolly As they say, all publicity is good publicity. Right? Yeah, why not? So when Apostle Claver T. Kamau-Imani of Raging Elephants sent out an...

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Big Jolly Politics

'Maggie Lee for Good': The Book If you'll excuse an off-topic indulgence, long-time readers may recall that my niece Maggie Lee Henson died along with another boy nearly...

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Grits for Breakfast