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[Readers can find the story in the Daily Buzz section of the Quorum Report.] From the QR story: HE 19 candidate James White this evening described as “a desperate lie” the disclosure by the Tuffy Hamilton campaign of student and parental complaints against White of inappropriate and sexual references made while teaching at the Livingston [...]
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Mail-in ballots exceed in-person voting in a couple of counties. For example, in the first day of voting in Harris County, 3,380 votes were cast in person. Mail-in  ballots totaled 10,027. The other big county for mail-in ballots was Tarrant (Fort Worth). On the first day of  voting, 2,147 votes were cast in person. An [...]
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Former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz revels in the Houston Chronicle’s endorsement of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in an interview with Sean Hannity, who endorses him (at the very beginning, notes the Cruz camp):
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A ruling affecting health care, including contraception, for some 130,000 low-income Texas women probably won’t come until late this year as Planned Parenthood and the state of Texas plan for mid-October oral arguments in their legal fight.  The state is appealing a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel granted  six weeks ago preventing [...]
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Hispanic Leadership Summit - Photo & Wrap-Up

By MikeVillarreal Posted @ Friday, March 26, 2010


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Here's a photo from yesterday's panel discussion at UT on Hispanic leadership of Representative Diana Maldonado, Dr. Victor Saenz and me. 

 

I was glad to get such a positive response to my suggestion that we fund colleges partially based on graduation rates rather than just students enrolled at the beginning of the semester. We need to build on our investment in TEXAS Grants for college students, but we also need to get more bang for our higher education bucks if we are going to meet our college graduation goals.

 


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