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- Budget expert: Texas will have $7 billion surplus in 2013 – David Mildenberg, Bloomberg News
- Appeals court upholds beach act challenge – Harvey Rice, Houston Chronicle
- EPA may amend its emissions regulations – Mark Drajem, Bloomberg News
- Texas Secretary of State Responds to Feds on Voter ID – Julian Aguilar, Texas Tribune
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- The Axelrod Test – Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ.com
The saga of the painted-over rock on the Perry family hunting grounds will roll on a few more days before it’s displaced by some other invented scandal — but give this one its just due. The to-do over the rock — with its racial epithet visible or not visible, turned over fully or halfway, soon enough or not soon enough and who knows where or when — has spawned solemn reflections on Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s character and so much other mind-boggling discourse that the whole affair may set a standard hard to equal in the election season to come. No small achievement. You can’t get blood from a stone, true, but you can, it’s now clear, get plenty of political — and other — pathology.
- Perry Campaign Says Economic Specifics Can Wait – Ben Philpott, Texas Tribune
- Royce West critcizes Confederate license plate proposal – Paul Burka, BurkaBlog
- Rick Perry has little role in 'ultimate justice' – Grits for Breakfast
- Hunting camp aside, some say Perry's talk of states' rights is inappropriate – Jason Embry, Austin American-Statesman
“It’s wrong to say anyone who thinks we should adhere more to the 10th Amendment is racist,” said Paul Brace, a political science professor at Rice University. “
Indeed, which is why Jason Embry should have worked MUCH harder to come up with a better idea for a column than yet another “some see racism!” sliming. Of course, as we’ve noted for quite a while, most of the lockstep Texas political media have a deficient understanding of the 10th Amendment and American constitutionalism in the first place, so this hardly comes as a surprise.
- Texas Facing at Least Two School Funding Lawsuits – Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune
But as the prevalence of lawsuits demonstrates, there are limits to the judiciary’s ability to solve school finance problems.
Nevertheless, liberals generally are happy enough with trying to advance their agenda via judicial decree rather than persuasion of majorities. And Texas Tribune appears to be a sympathetic forum.
- Texans to vote on plan to fix, update water infrastructure – Kate Galbraith, Texas Tribune
- Joaquin Castro Raises $500,000 To Unseat Lloyd Doggett – Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog
- Small Town Tax Hikes – Dustin Matocha, Empower Texans