Health
January 22, 2020
Does the World Need Doctors With Engineering Degrees?
Texas A&M wants to transform medicine by training a generation of innovation-minded physicians.
John Sharp
News & Politics
November 29, 2018
Texas A&M Says Howdy to the Army Futures Command
General John Murray and his staff recently got their first chance to size up the research possibilities in College Station.
News & Politics
July 17, 2018
Texas A&M and the Nation’s Nuclear Arsenal
Chancellor John Sharp talks to Texas Monthly about a recent $2.5 billion federal contract that makes A&M accountable for ensuring the nation’s nuclear weapons will work if they are ever needed.
News & Politics
June 1, 2018
Ruth Simmons, Former Ivy League President, Takes Over at Prairie View A&M
The renowned educator (and native Texan) came out of retirement to lead the historically black university.
Politics & Policy
September 7, 2017
John Sharp, the State’s Fixer in Chief, Comes to the Rescue After Harvey
Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp to lead rebuilding effort.
Politics & Policy
December 12, 2013
A Perry-Sharp Rivalry at Texas A&M?
Is is Rick Perry versus John Sharp when it comes to naming an interim president at Texas A&M?…
Sports
August 9, 2013
Who Is Johnny Football?
Johnny Manziel seemed like a superhero, the Manziel of Steel, able to leap tall linemen in a single bound. Is he something else?…
News & Politics
February 27, 2013
Tuesday Night Lights
In the House of Representatives traditional flag football game, sports and politics collided on the grass of Kyle Field. Fortunately, the only things that got bruised were a few egos.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
The Great Campaigner
After eleven contested elections dating back three decades, Rick Perry remains undefeated. Is he brilliant? Lucky? Ruthless? We asked the people who know best—his vanquished opponents.
Politics & Policy
November 27, 2011
Today in Perry: Potential Post-Campaign Scenarios, Arpaio Endorsement, and Jay Leno
The governor may have taken a break from the campaign trail for Thanksgiving, but that didn’t stop the campaign press corps.
Politics & Policy
August 17, 2011
Rove criticizes Perry for dissing Bush
Wayne Slater has an interesting story [this was earlier in the week] — which I am unable to link to, but it is in the Quorum Report — about Karl Rove’s displeasure with Rick Perry’s lack of gratitude toward then-Governor Bush during the 1998 primary races for governor and lieutenant…
Politics & Policy
February 2, 2010
What is Medina up to?
A couple of weeks ago I questioned in this space whether Medina might enter the Senate race if Hutchison resigns her seat after the primary or the runoff? Apparently someone else was thinking the same thing. The analysis that follows was sent to me by someone who is well known…
Politics & Policy
January 4, 2010
Statesman reports Democratic consultant Kelly Fero found dead
(Posted on the Statesman web site at 6:21 p.m.) Kelly Fero, a well-known Democratic Party political consultant and strategist, was found dead at his North Austin home this afternoon, friends of the family confirmed just a few minutes ago. According to his wife, Fero had not been feeling…
Politics & Policy
November 23, 2009
Waiting for the Hutchison ad
I had a conversation with John Sharp this afternoon. Sharp said that White’s first preference has always been to run for governor. What had kept him out of the governor’s race was the prospect that Hutchison would win the primary, leaving White to face the most popular figure in Texas…
Politics & Policy
April 21, 2009
Sharp: If at first you don’t secede…
John Sharp has a spot on YouTube criticizing his former, or perhaps current, and possibly even future friend Rick Perry for his remarks about secession. Here is the text of "The Greatest Country on Earth," in which Sharp does not mention Perry by name: During World War II…
Politics & Policy
December 19, 2008
Not So Fast
To: Bill White, John Sharp CC: David Dewhurst, Florence Shapiro, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Roger Williams, Michael Williams, Kay Granger, Greg Abbott, members of the Texas congressional delegation Re: Texas Senate race You folks might want to reconsider your decision to run for the vacancy that will be created when Kay…
Politics & Policy
December 18, 2008
Should the Democrats punt the governor’s race?
It’s probably too late to ask the question, because it appears to have already been answered. With Bill White and John Sharp in the race to serve out the remainder of Kay Bailey Hutchison’s term, no obvious candidate remains to challenge the winner of the primary between Hutchison and Rick…
Politics & Policy
December 11, 2008
Roger Williams joins the Senate race
UPDATE: I should have given Roger Williams credit in this writeup for his outstanding performance in the chair on the first day of the 2007 session, when he presided over the speaker’s race. He showed no favoritism and made a crucial ruling, overruling a point of order, that a secret…
Politics & Policy
December 9, 2008
Can Sharp Win the Senate Race?
The former state comptroller announced his candidacy today. He does not plan to form an exploratory committee but will begin raising money immediately. This will be Sharp’s second bite at the Senate apple. In 1992, when Lloyd Bentsen resigned his seat to become Secretary of the Treasury in the first…
Politics & Policy
December 8, 2008
Secret Disservice
Your daily space queen video! It’s worth clicking on just to see what I look like when I forget to sit on a telephone book. Paul Burka on the secret speaker’s ballot, and why he was for it before he he was against it. (Flip flopper.) Honorably mentioned: Speaker Craddick,…
Politics & Policy
June 30, 2000
How W. Can Lose
What are George Bush’s weaknesses as he heads into the fall campaign? We asked six Texas Democrats— a former governor, a former lieutenant governor, two wannabes, and two wiseacre pundits—to make the case against him. They pulled no punches.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1998
Two for Texas
Candidates Rick Perry and John Sharp donÕt agree on much, but they both say the race for lieutenant governor is the most important one on the ballot this fall. They’re right.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1998
The Bucks Stop Here
Who gave—and to whom—in this year’s big statewide races.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1998
Poll Taxed
The hottest topic in the crucial lieutenant governor’s race between Republican agriculture commissioner Rick Perry and Democratic state comptroller John Sharp is the reliability of the Scripps Howard–owned Texas Poll. When the March poll showed Sharp leading with 41 percent of surveyed voters to Perry’s 35 percent, R’s complained vigorously…
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1998
Primary Cullers
Winners in the March 10 primaries: George W. Bush His archnemesis, former Republican state chairman Tom Pauken, failed to make the runoff for attorney general, while his point man for his strategy to win Hispanic votes, former Secretary of State Tony Garza, won the GOP nomination for railroad commissioner. Big…
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1996
Bugging Out
Farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are reeling from last year’s crop disaster—and they don’t cotton to agriculture commissioner Rick Perry’s excuses.