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Analysis: In Texas government, the buck stops ... somewhere
Analysis: In Texas government, the buck stops ... somewhere kA 4=2DDlQAbQmk6>m%6I2D DE2E6 8@G6C?>6?E :D CF? 3J E@A =6256CD H9@ AC@>:D65 E@ >@56= E96:C @A6C2E:@?D @? 3FD:?6DD] %96J 5:5?’E D2J :E H@F=5 36 2? 6CC@C\AC@?6 3FD:?6DD]k^6>mk^Am kA 4=2DDlQAcQm k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAdQm*@F’== <?@H %6I2D =6256CD 2C6 5@:?8 2 8C62E ;@3 H96? J@F 962C A6@A=6 :? E96 AC:G2E6 D64E@C D2J E96J H:D9 E96:C 3FD:?6DD6D C2?
Analysis: This U.S. Senate race in Texas isn’t like the last one
Analysis: This U.S. Senate race in Texas isn’t like the last one kAmk6>m%H@ J62CD 28@[ ?@3@5J <?6H H9@ q6E@ ~’#@FC<6 H2D] xE EFC?65 @FE ?@E E@ >2EE6C :? 2 C246 H:E9 &]$] $6?] %65 rCFK] qFE E96 4FCC6?E C246 7@C $6?2E6 :D 5:776C6?E]k^6>mk^Am kAmq6E@ ~’#@FC<6 DE2CE65 9:D 42>A2:8? 7@C &]$] $6?2E6 H:E9 E96 D2>6 D25 G:D:3:=:EJ E96 4FCC6?E EC@@A @7 s6>@4C2E:4 9@A67F=D :D 32EE=:?8 E@52J]k^Am kAm|@DE A6@A=6 5:5?’E <?@H H9@ E96 964< 96 H2D[ 6G6?
Analysis: If you can’t beat ’em, change the rules
Here’s something Democrats and Republicans have in common: When lawmakers are deadlocked, leaders turn to the rulebooks, searching for angles and rule changes that would turn things their way. Not everything in politics is partisan: President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, are singing in unison. kAmuCFDEC2E65 3J DFA6C>2;@C:EJ C6BF:C6>6?ED E@ 86E 72G@C65 =68:D=2E:@? A2DD65 3J E96:C C6DA64E:G6 $6?2E6D[ 6249 92D E2<6? E96 A@D:E:@?
Analysis: In Texas politics, a little ignorance can lead to bliss
Analysis: In Texas politics, a little ignorance can lead to bliss kA 4=2DDlQAbQmk6>m}@E A2J:?8 2EE6?E:@? E@ 6G6CJ A@=:E:42= >@G6 :D?’E 2 D:8? @7 4:G:4 5:D6?8286>6?E] xE >:89E ;FDE 36 2 D:8? @7 2 32=2?465 =:76]k^6>mk^Am kA 4=2DDlQAcQm k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAdQm%9:D :D 8@:?8 E@ D@F?5 2 =:EE=6 D2C42DE:4[ 3FE 5@?’E C625 :E E92E H2Ji {6E FD D2=FE6 E96 G@E6CD H9@ 2C6?’E A2J:?8 2EE6?E:@? E@ 6G6CJ D:?8=6 5258F> E9:?8 E92E 92AA6?D :?
Analysis: Beto O’Rourke’s out, but he still casts a shadow on the 2020 Texas elections
Analysis: Beto O’Rourke’s out, but he still casts a shadow on the 2020 Texas elections kA 4=2DDlQAbQmkDA2? 4=2DDlQDaQmk6>mq6E@ ~’#@FC<6’D 3:5 7@C E96 AC6D:56?4J 72:=65] p?5 96 =@DE 9:D a_`g 3:5 7@C &]$] $6?2E6] qFE 96 FA6?565 E96 DE2EFD BF@ :? %6I2D A@=:E:4D :? H2JD E92E H:== A=2J @FE :? E96 a_a_ 6=64E:@?D]k^6>mk^DA2?mk^Am kA 4=2DDlQAcQm k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAdQmkDA2? 4=2DDlQDaQmx8?@C6 q6E@ ~’#@FC<6’D >:D368@EE6? AC6D:56?E:2= 42>A2:8? 7@C 2 >@>6?E[ 2?5 8:G6 E96 t= !2D@ s6>@4C2E 9:D 5F6i w6 :D E96 C62D@?
Analysis: The middle is intriguing but uncrowded in Texas politics
Analysis: The middle is intriguing but uncrowded in Texas politics kA 4=2DDlQA`Qmk6>mx? 2 DE2E6 E92E 92D 366? 4=@D6=J E:65 E@ 4@?D6CG2E:G6 A@=:E:4D 7@C 564256D[ D@>6 %6I2D A@=:E:4:2?D 2C6 658:?8 :?E@ 2 A@=:E:42= 56D6CEi E96 >:55=6]k^6>mk^Am kA 4=2DDlQAaQm k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAbQmxE’D 2 3:E >F49 E@ DF886DE E92E E96 >:55=6 :?
Analysis: Almost nothing in Texas government has unanimous consent
Analysis: Almost nothing in Texas government has unanimous consent kAmk6>m$E2E6 @77:4:2=D D2J =@42= 8@G6C?>6?ED D9@F=5?’E FD6 E2IA2J6C 7F?5D 7@C E9:?8D D@>6 E2IA2J6CD 5@?’E DFAA@CE] %92E 56D4C:36D ;FDE 23@FE 6G6CJE9:?8 8@G6C?>6?E 5@6D]k^6>mk^Am kAm%96 DE2E6’D E@A E9C66 6=64E65 @77:4:2=D — 8@G6C?@C[ =:6FE6?2?E 8@G6C?@C 2?5 DA62<6C @7 E96 w@FD6 — H@F=5 =@G6 E@ 4FE @77 E96 7:?2?4:2= DFAA=J =:?6D E@ =@33J:DED H9@ C6AC6D6?E 4:E:6D[ 4@F?E:6D 2?5 @E96C =@42= 8@G6C?>6?ED]k^Am kAm~?6 C62D@?
Analysis: A Houston police death and the debate over who should have guns in Texas
The proliferation of mass shootings has opened up the debate about gun laws among politicians in Texas, and about whether new restrictions are needed. But not among all Texas politicians. They wear their gunbelts a little tighter in Washington than in Texas. kA 4=2DDlQA`QmkDA2? 4=2DDlQD`Qm*@F D66 E92E :? E96 %6I2?D :? E96 &]$] $6?2E6 9@=5:?8 E96:C 8C@F?5 @? H92E’D <?@H? 2D “E96 3@J7C:6?5 =@@A9@=6” H9:=6 DE2E6H:56 @77:4:2=D 324< 9@>6 D66> @A6? E@ 2E =62DE 2 4@?G6CD2E:@? 23@FE D@>6 E@F896C 8F?
Analysis: Beware of Texas politicians bearing home-brewed arithmetic
Analysis: Beware of Texas politicians bearing home-brewed arithmetic kA 4=2DDlQAbQmkDA2? 4=2DDlQD`Qmk6>m(96? 8@G6C?>6?E @77:4:2=D H2?E E@ DA:? 2 DE@CJ 23@FE DE2E6 7:?2?46[ :E 96=AD E@ 92G6 4@?EC@= @7 E96 ?F>36CD — 2?5 E@ 5@ E96 >2E9 AC@A6C=J]k^6>mk^DA2?mk^Am kA 4=2DDlQAcQm k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAdQmx7 J@F =@@< 2E 9:D 42>A2:8? >:DD:G6D[ :E’D 4=62C E92E E96 DE2E6’D =:6FE6?2?E 8@G6C?@C — @C >2J36 :E’D 9:D DE277 — 42?’E C64@?4:=6 9:D >2E9 H:E9 9:D A@=:E:4D]k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAdQms2?
Analysis: When nobody is the best-known Texas candidate, an endorsement can be a big deal
It is much easier to influence a political contest when the voters are unfamiliar with the candidates. That’s why the 11 candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate were so upset that a national group tapped MJ Hegar as its favorite in the race. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee weighed in this week, blessing Hegar as its favorite, and in the process, telling the Democratic national establishment that she should get its support. kA 4=2DDlQA`QmkDA2?
Analysis: Texas candidates have one week left to sign up or shut up
Analysis: Texas candidates have one week left to sign up or shut up kA 4=2DDlQAbQmkDA2? 4=2DDlQDaQmk6>mr2?5:52E6D 92G6 @?6 >@C6 H66< E@ @77:4:2==J 564=2C6 E96:C a_a_ 42>A2:8?D] x? E96 %6I2D w@FD6 — 2 <6J A2CE:D2? 32EE=68C@F?5 — 2D >2?J 2D b` 5:DEC:4ED[ @FE @7 `d_[ 4@F=5 36 4@>A6E:E:G6]k^6>mk^DA2?mk^Am kA 4=2DDlQAcQm k^Am kA 4=2DDlQAdQmkDA2? 4=2DDlQDaQmx? @?6 H66<[ H6’== <?@H H9@’D 8@:?8 E@ 92G6 2 AC:>2CJ] (9@ :D 8@:?8 E@ 92G6 2 7:89E :?
Analysis: A 2020 holiday fantasy for Texas officeholders looking to 2022
Big election campaigns take years to mount. So some politicians aren’t thinking about the 2020 elections. They’re dreaming and planning for 2022. Even the kids in the elected class have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, dreaming at the end of another year what might be next in politics, and for them. kA 4=2DDlQA`QmkDA2? 4=2DDlQD`Qm(6 86E E96D6 >@>6?ED @7 A6?E\FA 56>2?5[ H96? E96 DA@ED 2E E96 E@A @7 E96 =2556C 2C6 @44FA:65 2?5 E96 A6@A=6 @?
Analysis: Maybe the Texas House should try something new and completely different
Analysis: Maybe the Texas House should try something new and completely different kAmk6>m{@@<:?8 7@C 2 ?6H DA62<6C[ E96 %6I2D w@FD6 H2?ED 2 3:8 492?86] w6C6’D 2 >@56DE AC@A@D2=]k^6>mk^Am kAmu@C E96 D64@?5 E:>6 :? EH@ J62CD[ E96 >6>36CD @7 E96 %6I2D w@FD6 92G6 E96 492?46 — :7 E96J D@ 56D:C6 — E@ 6=64E E96 7:CDE H@>2? E@ D6CG6 2D DA62<6C]k^Am kAm%H@ H@>6? — |:C:2> “|2” u6C8FD@? 2?5 p?? #:492C5D — 92G6 D6CG65 2D 8@G6C?@CD @7 %6I2D] qFE ?@ H@>2?
Analysis: History suggests attention on gun policy will fade well before the November elections
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Analysis: History suggests attention on gun policy will fade well before the November elections
Skip to main content Key coverage Uvalde school shooting In addressing mass shootings, Texas’ top officials have tailored their responses to the wishes of some of their most outspoken voters. The results haven’t changed because we haven’t changed. by Ross Ramsey May 31, 20225 AM Central Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Time is the enemy.
Analysis: Texas is great - and ought to be better
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. 2022 is an election year, a chance for Texas voters to tell the people who represent them what the state needs and what it doesn’t need, to bear down on the biggest problems we face together and to ignore the distractions that keep us from that important work. Texas has 5.5 million kids in public schools.
Analysis: Texas is great - and ought to be better
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Analysis: Texas is great - and ought to be better
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Analysis: The case for big ideas in Texas government
By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune April 27, 2022 “Analysis: The case for big ideas in Texas government” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below.
Analysis: The case for big ideas in Texas government
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. John Kennedy set out to put humans on the moon. Lyndon Johnson wanted a Great Society. Ronald Reagan dared the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Analysis: The case for big ideas in Texas government
Sign up for our Newsletters Ad Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Your browser does not support the audio element. John Kennedy set out to put humans on the moon. Lyndon Johnson wanted a Great Society. Ronald Reagan dared the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Analysis: Every so often, Texas government needs a reboot
The Texas Capitol. Credit: Amna Ijaz/The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. One parable about problem-solving is about how to load rocks into a truck, or a big box. Start with the boulders, then the stones, then the pebbles. Get the order wrong, and the container gets full before the rocks are all in.
Analysis: Every so often, Texas government needs a reboot
Sign up for our Newsletters Ad Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Your browser does not support the audio element. One parable about problem-solving is about how to load rocks into a truck, or a big box. Start with the boulders, then the stones, then the pebbles. Get the order wrong, and the container gets full before the rocks are all in.
Analysis: Texas lawmakers listen to the voters who show up
Voters in line at the Lakewood Branch Library in Dallas on Feb. 25, 2022, the last day of early voting in the Texas primary. Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Elected officials listen to voters, and Texas government could do so much better if voters were more demanding. And if there were more Texans voting.
Analysis: Gerrymandering has left Texas voters with few options
By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune April 20, 2022 "Analysis: Gerrymandering has left Texas voters with few options" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below.
Analysis: Texans without high-speed internet are getting closer, slowly
The idea that internet access is a luxury was already demolished before anybody ever heard of COVID-19. But the pandemic — and the demands of switching work, school and medicine from in-person to virtual experiences — made it impossible for state officials to ignore.
Analysis: Texas’ new standard is abortions for those who can afford to leave Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas hasn’t outlawed abortion for everyone — just for those who can’t afford to travel to other states and countries where the decision about whether to have a child is left to the person who’s pregnant. The state’s new restrictions on abortions, effectively outlawing them after about six weeks of pregnancy, have been in effect for almost eight months. An embryo's initial cardiac activity is detectable at about that time — often before a person knows they’re pregnant.
Analysis: Texas’ new standard is abortions for those who can afford to leave Texas
click to enlarge Jaime Monzon Women protest Texas' near-complete ban on abortion during a march in San Antonio last year. Texas hasn’t outlawed abortion for everyone — just for those who can’t afford to travel to other states and countries where the decision about whether to have a child is left to the person who’s pregnant. The state’s new restrictions on abortions, effectively outlawing them after about six weeks of pregnancy, have been in effect for almost eight months.
Analysis: Texas’ new standard is abortions for those who can afford to leave Texas Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Texas hasn’t outlawed abortion for everyone — just for those who can’t afford to travel to other states and countries where the decision about whether to have a child is left to the person who’s pregnant.
Analysis: Texans without high-speed internet are getting closer, slowly
AUSTIN, Texas - The idea that internet access is a luxury was already demolished before anybody ever heard of COVID-19. But the pandemic — and the demands of switching work, school and medicine from in-person to virtual experiences — made it impossible for state officials to ignore.
Analysis: Texans without high-speed internet are getting closer, slowly Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. The idea that internet access is a luxury was already demolished before anybody ever heard of COVID-19. But the pandemic — and the demands of switching work, school and medicine from in-person to virtual experiences — made it impossible for state officials to ignore.
Analysis: Texas schools need support from politically distracted state leaders Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. While the state’s top political performers are talking about books in school libraries, and about whether history teachers ought to be allowed to teach history, Texas schools — schools everywhere, really — are up against a daunting fundamental problem. Education. Look at what the pandemic has done to our kids.
Analysis: Texas candidates’ silence allows persistent foster care problems to fester Original
Skip to main content Key coverage Unconventional Wisdom Candidates hardly ever talk about improving the safety net for kids — unless the holes in the safety net have become big enough to get the attention of voters. by Ross Ramsey April 11, 20225 AM Central Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below.
Analysis: Abbott’s border initiative is expensive, ineffective and not as tough as it sounds
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016, Wikimedia Commons Gov. Greg Abbott wants to bus undocumented immigrants to Washington, D.C., to display his opposition to the Biden administration’s immigration policies, to win some attention in an election year and to turn conversation away from the thin results of the state’s expensive border security efforts.
Analysis: Abbott’s border initiative is expensive, ineffective and not as tough as it sounds
By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune April 8, 2022 Gov. Greg Abbott wants to bus undocumented immigrants to Washington, D.C., to display his opposition to the Biden administration’s immigration policies, to win some attention in an election year and to turn conversation away from the thin results of the state’s expensive border security efforts.
Analysis: Abbott’s border initiative is expensive, ineffective and not as tough as it sounds
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Unconventional Wisdom - April 8, 2022 Your browser does not support the audio element. Caring more about politics than about people is apparently easy, once you get the hang of it. Gov.
Analysis: The Texas Legislature’s 2023 session has already started Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. We don’t know yet who will be representing us in the Capitol, what positions or committee assignments they’ll hold, what their elections will have been like, or what sort of mood they and the state will be in.
Analysis: Property tax relief that doesn’t lower your tax bill
AUSTIN, Texas - Three years ago, Texas lawmakers were trying to honor a promise to cut property taxes and raise the state’s share of the cost of public education. They did it — and they didn’t. A new assessment of those 2019 changes — from the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, a business trade group that concentrates on tax and fiscal policy — concludes that property tax increases will slow, but won’t stop.
Analysis: Property tax relief that doesn’t lower your tax bill
A recently sold home in east Longview's Mission Creek subdivision on Dec. 17, 2021. Credit: Michael Cavazos for The Texas Tribune by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune. Three years ago, Texas lawmakers were trying to honor a promise to cut property taxes and raise the state’s share of the cost of public education. They did it — and they didn’t.
Analysis: In Texas elections in 2022, economic concerns loom Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Texas voters don’t like the way things are going in the U.S. and most don’t think their kids will have it better than they do, according to a Texas Lyceum poll framed around voters’ outlook for the rest of the decade.
Analysis: Property tax relief that doesn’t lower your tax bill Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Three years ago, Texas lawmakers were trying to honor a promise to cut property taxes and raise the state’s share of the cost of public education. They did it — and they didn’t.
Analysis: Property tax relief that doesn’t lower your tax bill
Sign up for our Newsletters Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Your browser does not support the audio element. Three years ago, Texas lawmakers were trying to honor a promise to cut property taxes and raise the state’s share of the cost of public education. They did it — and they didn’t.
Analysis: Texas gets a respite on Medicaid, but not a cure for the uninsured
click to enlarge Texas Tribune / Gary Rhodes Texas is one of a dozen states that hasn’t expanded its Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. Texas got some breathing room when the federal government decided last week to continue sending Medicaid money for health care for some of the state’s residents without private insurance. But it’s not a permanent fix, and the state still has to work out solutions for uninsured Texans, the state of rural hospitals and other issues.
Analysis: Texas gets a respite on Medicaid, but not a cure for the uninsured Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. Texas got some breathing room when the federal government decided last week to continue sending Medicaid money for health care for some of the state’s residents without private insurance.
Analysis: Texas’ rural hospitals still face a crisis providing care
Skip to main content Key coverage Unconventional Wisdom The good news is that no rural hospitals in Texas have closed in the last two years. The bad news? They’re still in crisis mode, and the state government is still struggling to find a remedy. by Ross Ramsey March 28, 20225 AM Central Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below.
Analysis: Texas politicians can find respite from bad news - in more bad news Original
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. A nasty weather system swept across Texas this week, dropping tornadoes, hail, wind and rain in the central and southeast parts of the state before moving east to wreak more damage in Louisiana. The only good news was that it didn’t hurt more people or do more damage than it did.
Analysis: Why Texas lawmakers aren’t getting rid of property taxes
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, click on the play button below. If you think about it, property taxes in Texas are a pretty sweet deal for the state government. Owners of homes and other properties don’t like it so much, and neither do renters, who pay the tax invisibly through the owners of the properties they rent.
Analysis: When 1 in 8 Texas mail ballots gets trashed, that’s vote suppression
click to enlarge Texas Tribune / Annie Mulligan Election workers at Harris County’s Elections Technology Center in northwest Houston on March 1, 2022. If you say — or write — that it’s harder to vote in Texas today than it was a year ago, or four years ago, someone will tell you how easy it is and how full of beans you are. But what are we supposed to make of the thousands of rejected mail-in ballots during the Republican and Democratic primaries this month?
Analysis: Texas voters elect to stay the course
click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons Nothing happened in Texas this week, if you’re looking for an answer to the question, “How did Texas voters change the state’s power structure?” Maybe that’s the wrong question. In the 2020 general election, Texans voted to stay the course. The returns are still unofficial, but the overall effect is clear: The state’s congressional delegation will have the same mix of Republicans and Democrats next year as it has today.
Analysis: A health care problem too big for the Texas Legislature
Texas has more uninsured people than any other state, whether you count in raw numbers (about 5.4 million) or in the uninsured percentage of the total population (18.4%). But it’s one of only a dozen states that hasn’t expanded its Medicaid program. Whether lawmakers suddenly change their mind about that program or not, they still have a problem to solve: How do they get health insurance, or cheaper health care, for all of those people?
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