Giants and Patriots Toss Political Dollars To Democrats When the New England Patriots and New England Giants meet on the national stage in Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday, it's expected to be an...

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Open Secrets

A Second Round of Initial Concepts for Midtown’s Independent Arts Collaborative Wait — haven’t we already seen “initial concept drawings” for the Independent Arts Collaborative building planned...

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Swamplot

First Lady Michelle Obama to visit North Texas First Lady Michelle Obama will visit North Texas next week as part of her three-day tour marking the second anniversary of her Let’s...

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Star-Telegram's PoliTex

Mass incarceration and the limits of "the new Jim Crow" analogy I just finished reading an excellent essay by Yale law prof James Forman Jr., the son of a legendary civil rights pioneer, critiquing the...

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Grits for Breakfast

A super PAC surfaces in the U.S. Senate race A so-called super PAC has surfaced in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Paperwork arrived in Washington on...

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Statesman

A word about First Reading First, let me apologize for the sudden disappearance of First Reading over the past couple of weeks. As some of you know, on Jan. 22, our...

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Jason Embry's First Reading

The Midday Brief: Feb. 3, 2012 By David Muto Your afternoon reading: "Undaunted, Ron Paul’s campaign is aggressively courting the LDS community, sending teams of...

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Texas Tribune

Local Website Makes Book Does li’l ol’ Buffalo Bayou qualify for a river guide? It does now. Longtime bayou history boat tour guide Louis Aulbach...

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Swamplot

Oak Grove Beach Volleyball Bar Update: Who’s Going To Serve? Following up on that former warehouse at 954 Wakefield St. in Oak Grove that last spring looked like it was well on its way to becoming a...

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Swamplot

Harris County DA Investigator Don McWilliams goes on the record Once again we return to the charges from the 185th Grand Jury and media reports that Harris County DA Pat Lykos initiated an...

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Big Jolly Politics