Yesterday, when we unveiled the cover of our July issue featuring Rick Perry, we also told you about “The Perry Report Card,” an upcoming magazine feature where, as the title suggests, we graded the tenure of the governor on eight areas of public policy. We invited you to weigh
Three Texas Republicans might be contenders in 2016.
Our July cover features Rick Perry, who is wrapping up his historic tenure as governor of Texas.
Paul Burka on Rick Perry’s greatest feat: completely changing state government.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation changes its view of state spending.
Rick Perry's presidential ambitions have run into a formidable obstacle in his home state: fellow Texan Ted Cruz.
Rick Perry and the House appear to be on a collision course. The chatter is increasing around the Capitol that if the Transparency Committee continues on its course to impeach Wallace Hall, the governor will call the Legislature into a series of special sessions this summer, presumably on transportation.I don’t
Special prosecutor Michael McCrum is "very troubled" about the way the Governor made good on his promise to pull funding for the unit if its head, embattled Travis County district attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, failed to resign her position.
A response to Texas Monthly's coverage of the equal pay debate.
Will Rick Perry get his man? Will the Board of Regents go its own way? It's a question worthy of Shakespeare.
The university's chancellor wars.
Ted Cruz should know better than to lambast federal judges for being unelected
The governor gave a rousing speech, but his interpretation of the Constitution is too narrow
Campaigns get complicated when politics and gender collide. Just ask Wendy Davis.
Disabled veterans are having a rough time bringing their service dogs into businesses, despite laws allowing them to do so.
Governor Perry ditches his boots (with one important exception), but he's still running hard on the campaign trail.
What the candidates running for lieutenant governor are saying in their campaign says a lot about Texas.
The governor's support for decriminalizing marijuana surprised people, but he's been a critic of the "war on drugs" for a long time.
What happens when a private family tragedy plays out in a very public way?
Get the guy a pair of new glasses and apparently he loosens right up.
If 2014 is the year everything is supposed to change in Texas politics, why do the campaigns feel so irrelevant?
The Legislature was looking in the wrong place when it tried to solve the state’s water crisis.
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What’s Ahead for Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, George Strait, Jerry Jones and other Texans.
A fight over the interim president grips Texas A&M.
Is is Rick Perry versus John Sharp when it comes to naming an interim president at Texas A&M?
Texas politics in 2014 is certain to be interesting.
What are the potential conflicts of interest in the Texas Enterprise Fund involving a close friend of Rick Perry's?
Public Policy Polling’s most recent survey shows that Rick Perry has virtually no support for president among Texans. Indeed, he is so poorly regarded that he would lose a head-to-head matchup with Hillary Clinton.The days when Perry was actually relevant are long gone. No one pays any attention
Rick Perry dismissed the ongoing impeachment hearings against UT Board of Regent Wallace Hall as "extraordinary political theater."
Yesterday Rick Perry called the Affordable Care Act, “a criminal act.” This is an example of why Perry will never be president. He has a mean streak a mile wide. Readers will recall that he attacked the Fed’s Bernanke in a menacing manner during a stump speech leading
The probability of getting the feds to agree to a block grant—with all of the exceptions Texas is seeking—is about the same as shooting a unicorn on a hunting trip.
Greg Abbott will almost certainly be our next governor. What’s less certain is what sort of governor he will be.
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin has some advice for Governor Rick Perry, should he choose to enter the presidential race in 2016.
Rick Perry’s legacy will rise and fall on the “Texas miracle.” Is it real? If so, should he get the credit?
Where does the governor go from here?
Rick Perry isn't running for re-election in 2014
The abortion debate continued to play out in Texas over the last few days as Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, and Senator Ted Cruz addressed the National Right to Life Convention in Grapevine.
Perry told Bloomberg News that he would announce his decision about whether he would seek a full fourth term as governor by July 1. Why is he holding off on his reelect announcement?
The latest approval numbers aren't terribly surprising.
Perry's vetoes did very little damage to the record of the Eighty-third Legislature.
Governor Rick Perry on Tuesday added abortion and juvenile sentencing to the special session call.
Governor Rick Perry deserves praise for being on the right side of the rigor debate.
This morning I wrote about the prospects for a budget deal, the topic du jour that is uppermost in everyone’s mind. The post contained, among other comments, this line: “House Democrats complained that Senate budget chief Tommy Williams had ‘misled’ them.” That is what I was told by
Perry and his pals celebrated the release of the first precision-guided firearms at the Mason ranch of TrackingPoint founder John McHale.
As we tweeted last night as events were rapidly developing, the hopes for a budget deal that would send everyone home happy appeared to evaporate yesterday. House Democrats complained that Senate budget chief Tommy Williams had “misled” them. Dewhurst showed up in the House chamber and disappeared into the back
The University of Texas Board of Regents chairman on the controversies over higher education and the future of learning.
According to the Rick Perry camp, sometime this month our governor will announce whether he plans to run for Texas's top office yet again.
Gun Barrel City passed a non-binding resolution to encourage all its citizens to arm themselves, partly in an attempt to lure the gun industry.
Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that spending more state money on inspections would not have prevented the deadly explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant that was last investigated by Texas environmental regulators in 2006. Excuse me for asking, but … how would Perry know? You
At a press conference on Monday, Governor Perry called for $1.6 billion in business tax cuts–including 5 percent off the margins tax–in an attempt to make good on his promise for “tax relief” this session. What does this prove? That Perry never seems to run out of bad ideas.In fact,