Not Done Yet: July Run-offs

A rundown of the July 31 run-offs

"...The situation places the Texas political process in new and unpredictable territory: In a..."

June 8, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Show Them the Need

The great GOP wave breaks on the realities of the actual cost of government

"...The Texas Legislature did not return (or rather, did not stay..."

June 10, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Has Round Rock ISD Hit Rock Bottom?

Maybe not yet

"...a lifelong resident of Round Rock and a two-time Teacher of the Year in its school district. Along with..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Hightower Report

The Foreign Corporation Vote; and Forming a Beer Party

"...coalition called Move to Amend: www.movetoamend.org. Forming a Beer Party..."

April 30, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters at 3AM: Where We Actually Live: Part II

The country the tea partiers want back no longer exists

"...That's what makes possible headlines like this: "Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated" (The New York..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

The Race for the Third

Kuhn and Goodwin face off for high-profile appeals court

"...front of the state courts of appeals, including the Texas Supreme Court, on up through the federal system, including..."

Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 9 State Stories

"...FORT HOOD RAMPAGE A routine day at a Central Texas Army base turned deadly Nov. 5, when a gunman..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Big Fish,Small Bowl

On View: Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Moses

"...about 30 students clamoring outside his office at the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the new Commissioner of Education decided..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Partisan Races

Looking at the statewide, legislative, and county ballot

"...progressive federal policies, while fighting every lawsuit brought against Texas, no matter how flimsy the defense, and claiming incorrectly..."

Oct. 17, 2014 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Event Menu

March 27-April 5

"...Lady Eve, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck. Each team will present five dishes during the movie in the..."

March 28, 2008 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Top 10 State Stories

Obamacare provoked, a star was born, and the Tea Party kept on steeping.

"...1) SCORCHED EARTH Texas' deadly drought has softened, but not ended. According to..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Remembrance of Flavors Past

Holiday food memories

"...was the annual pilgrimage across the street to a tea party at which my mother and I would view..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Prop. 6: Strange Bedfellows on Both Sides

Boondoggle or necessary step? Odd alliances form on both sides of state water proposal.

"...on the 2012 State Water Plan, authored by the Texas Water Development Board. It lists $53 billion worth of..."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

Stephen reminisces and plays "No, you!" "Oh no, you!" with Daniel Esquivel

"...Gentry) and I also attended the Downton in Austin tea party luncheon last week hosted by ASA's Women's Giving..."

April 26, 2013 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Doggett Defeats the Doctor

Dem congressman manages narrow win

"...Well, the tea partiers weren't crazy to think they could defeat Lloyd..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

This Week in Campaign Fail

Kinky breaks party lines again, and Leo talks God with Glenn

"...as one of the headline speakers at June's Libertarian Party of Texas State Convention. Oh, and guess what? He'll..."

April 27, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry Signs Education Bill: Now What?

Gov signs off on HB5 after veto speculation

"...day as HB5. It's a minor victory for the Tea Party, which had dreamed of unlimited charter schools and..."

June 10, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Shit or Shinola? Dewhurst Puts His Foot in It

Lt. Gov. throws Texas DPS under the bus in an attempt to explain Tampongate

"...Just when you thought Texas politics could not get any sillier: First, there was..."

July 26, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Mighty White' of Rick Perry

"...to put his campaign on hold and return to Texas for a couple of photo ops where he pretended..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Postmarks

Ask God Herself

"...she did say that the terrible heat wave in Texas, along with the drought; falling levels of lakes, streams,..."

Aug. 30, 2011 Postmarks

Top 10 Election Stories

Republicans hit the lottery

"...undeniably a landslide for the GOP, nationally and in Texas. The pendulum always swings at midterm, but the intractable..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

The GOP's New Crowded House

They carry more weight, but is it muscle or fat?

"...about ruling in Hell rather than serving in Heaven? Texas Democrats are left wondering which side of that equation..."

Dec. 17, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

News Roundup: Death and Lawsuits

Ken Paxton has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

"...• Friendly Fire: Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal team seems to have declared war on Houston, of all..."

July 6, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Point Austin: Welcome Back!

When the Lege is in town, we've learned to expect the worst

"...Vaginal Wand – announced that "the government here in Texas is getting out of your lives." He was announcing..."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Hightower Report: She'll Be Gone, but Her Spirit Will Linger

Michele Bachmann promises to 'keep our country from becoming'

"...piously hypocritical, so incoherently pontifical – the Minnesota Congress­woman, Tea Party sparklie, and flash-in-the-pan presidential pretender was a gusher..."

June 14, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

GOP: Right vs. Far Right

Dewhurst heads to a run-off, Romney cinches 64%, and other Republican primary news

"...It was the battle of the Establishment vs. the tea party and its corporate backers in the Republican primaries...."

June 1, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Conservatives Take Another Swing at Social Studies

Curriculum vote pushed to March

"...themselves about revisions to social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schoolchildren, and it was every bit as inane..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

All Workman and No Play

House District 47's Republican candidate fights battles on three fronts

"...for Workman's TV ad attacking Bolton for voting against Texas' version of Jessica's Law: Bolton was among a group..."

Oct. 29, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Angels Wanna Wear Our Red Shoes

If GOP dominoes refuse to fall, maybe the Dems can take advantage

"...You Go?" Incumbent-for-Life Rick Perry's been volubly courting the Tea Party voters for months, just this side of secession,..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Slay the Dragon

Hard-hitting political documentary shows the menace of gerrymandering is coming back

"...21st century have seen the dominance of the Republican Party in America because their strategists realized one thing: You..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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