From Bush’s good try on property taxes to Bullock’s grand finale, from savvy Sadler to weaselly Wohlgemuth, from Duncan’s beginning to Howard’s end: Our sorting of the session’s standouts—best, worst, and in between.
Hugo Berlanga said at the start of the session that he was tired. The time had come to do something else. He was burned-out.Mark it down that this burnout had a long fuse. Hugo—he’s a first-name figure—had a session for the ages. Through behind-the-scenes negotiations and timely amendments, he influenced
Caught in a real-life episode of E.R., Senator Teel Bivins spent the final week of the legislative session performing triage on bills that were at death’s door. As our story begins, a perspiring Bivins frantically tries to revive Governor Bush’s charter schools program, which is among the 52 bills that
With his spectacles and bushy mustache, he looks like everybody’s favorite uncle, and appropriately, his niche in the Legislature is to take care of the kids: juvenile justice, safe schools, and adoption laws. In the age of family-values politics, Goodman brings a quiet rationality to issues that have been known
Remember the Sherlock Holmes story in which the great detective solves a mysterious death case because a dog did not bark at a thief in the night? The lesson is that what doesn’t happen can be just as important as what does happen—in crime or in the Legislature. (Please, no
From the respected to the rascally, our regular roundup of the session’s most renowned pols.
Our biennial boosting and bashing of the state’s most beguiling politicians.
We bring you the heroes and the villains of the Capitol circus. Guess which list had more contenders?
We just rate them. You voted for them.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Nineteen people you voted for and one you didn't.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Rating the Texas Congressmen from number one to, sigh, number twenty-two.
Guess which list had the most competition.
Competition was fierce and the winners in both categories are outstanding.
