Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
American Crossroads PAC Rakes in Big Bucks from Rich Texans
Karl Rove's Super PAC netted $30.5 million—more than half of its total donations—from three Texan titans.
Robert Rowling
Politics & Policy
February 8, 2009
Miller: UTIMCO up $400 million in year ending June ’08
Former UT regent Charles Miller provided additional information about UTIMCO’s performance as well as the payment of bonuses. As was the case with his previous comments, I am publishing his communication exactly as he wrote it. I think Zimmerman and UTIMCO made several hundred million dollars in profits ($400 million
Politics & Policy
February 7, 2009
The pension funds: time for oversight
For many years after I first started working in the Capitol, the major pension funds and endowments were limited to conservative investments such as stocks and bonds and government instruments. Then Wall Street began going crazy and the investment managers asked the Legislature for the authority to play in real
Politics & Policy
February 6, 2009
Does Hutchison benefit from Perry’s criticism of Rowling?
Here’s what a Hutchison hand told me. (I was driving and talking on my cell phone, so this is the gist of the conversation, not a verbatim rendition.) This is a legislative session in which Perry needs to show that he is a leader who can bring people together and
Politics & Policy
February 6, 2009
Perry/Dewhurst UTIMCO letter is about politics
The resignation of Robert Rowling as a University of Texas regent and as chairmain of the UT System’s beleaguered investment company, UTIMCO, following Rowling’s appearance at a stormy session of the Senate Finance committee, was rife with politics. Rowling is a former Perry supporter who is backing Hutchison in the
Politics & Policy
February 5, 2009
Rowling: Take this job and shove it
Dallas billionaire Robert Rowling, chairman of the UTIMCO board, today abruptly resigned while under heavy fire from members of the Senate Finance Committee about $2.3 million in bonuses paid to fund managers for the University of Texas System and Texas A&M System’s endowment, which has declined 27 percent this year.
Business
September 1, 1993
Texas 100: Home Improvement
As Corpus Christi oil magnate Robert Rowling has discovered, rebuilding his city is good for civic pride and better for business.