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By Christy Hoppe, The Dallas Morning News
Democrat Bill White pressed for help with federal border security in a call to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and he said Thursday that Republican Rick Perry, the governor he is challenging, also should have picked up the phone.
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By Melissa B. Taboada, The Austin American-Statesman
As federal lawmakers prepare to possibly eliminate the primary program through which students currently obtain loans to pay for college, Texas universities are joining thousands across the country abandoning the bank-based system.
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Legislative candidate Schulte comes out, officially
By John Wright, Dallas Voice
Texas officially has an openly gay candidate for state Legislature in 2010. Pete Schulte, a Democrat who's running for the District 108 House seat, confirmed this week for the first time publicly that he's gay.
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Perry plans to call voters about national healthcare bill
By Tim Eaton, The Austin American-Statesman
Interest groups on both sides of the debate are directing people to let their congressmen and congresswomen know how they feel about the health care bill. And now, the campaign of Gov. Rick Perry is getting in on the action.
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The secret pardon
By Brandi Grissom, The Texas Tribune
Every couple of minutes, attorney Rob Owen glances nervously at the calendar in his office. Barring the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court, a reprieve from the secretive Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is the last hope for his client, Hank Skinner, to avoid the poison-filled syringe that awaits him on Wednesday.
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A border runs through it
By Julian Aguilar, The Texas Tribune
Steeped in the annals of the America's symbiotic relationship with Mexico is the two countries' long-standing and sometimes tense agreement over an issue more far-reaching than border security and immigration: water.
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Mayor's aide -- State sees risk in Metro rail debt plan
By Mike Snyder, The Houston Chronicle
Metro's plans for repaying $2.6 billion in bonds to finance five light rail lines could be threatened by the Texas attorney general's objections to one revenue source, a leader of Mayor Annise Parker's transition team said.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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