T-Squared: QRANK's Final Answer
By Rodney GibbsThis morning some of our readers go cold turkey.Twenty months ago, we inaugurated our partnership with QRANK, a daily news quiz with questions and answers pulled straight from Tribune...
View ArticleT-Squared: Our Scoreboard is Your Scoreboard
By Rodney GibbsLast May during the primaries we debuted our Election Scoreboard, a customizable and up-to-the-minute dashboard of all statewide election results. For this week’s general election, we’re...
View ArticleT-Squared: One Site Fits All
By Rodney GibbsFor the last several months around Trib HQ, you couldn't attend a meeting or have a hallway conversation without hearing the word "responsive." It started with our tech team, but the...
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A Guide to Getting One of Texas' $10,000 Degrees
By Reeve Hamilton and Rodney GibbsIn his State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry touted the $10,000 bachelor's degrees Texas universities began offering in 2011, when he first challenged...
View ArticleAudio: TribLive: A Conversation with Sen. Kel Seliger
By Rodney GibbsThis is the full audio of Evan Smith's December 6, 2012 conversation with state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, the chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee. It was recorded...
View ArticleAudio: TribLive: A Conversation with Rep. Mike Villarreal and Sen. Donna...
By Rodney GibbsThis is the full audio of Evan Smith's December 7, 2012 Hot Seat conversation at Trinity University in San Antonio with state Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, and state Sen.-elect...
View ArticleAudio: TribLive: A Conversation with Texas Education Commissioner Michael...
By Rodney GibbsThis is the full audio of Evan Smith's Jan. 10, 2013 TribLive conversation with Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams. It was recorded during a TribLive event at the Austin Club...
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T-Squared: Building a Better Map
Around Trib HQ we get excited about maps. Texas is a big state, and we take as our mission making sense of how complicated events and data play out across it. Certain stats, no matter how dense,...
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Audio: TribLive: A Conversation with Cigarroa and Sharp
Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of The University of Texas System, and John Sharp, chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, join Evan Smith, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Texas Tribune, in a...
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Audio: TribLive: A Conversation About Transportation
With the way Texas pays for its roads under the spotlight this session, Sen. Robert Nichols and state Rep. Larry Phillips joined Tribune reporter Aman Batheja for a conversation about...
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Audio: TribLive: A Conversation with Todd Staples
Todd Staples has served as Texas' agriculture commissioner since 2007. Before that, he served as a state representative for House District 11 from 1997-2000 and as a state senator for Senate District 3...
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Audio: TribLive: A Conversation with Ken Starr
Ken Starr became the 14th president of Baylor University in June 2010. Before coming to Waco, he was the dean and a professor of law at Pepperdine University, where he taught current constitutional...
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Audio: TribLive: A Conversation with Tony Garza
Garza served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009. He had previously served as chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, as the Texas secretary of state and as a Cameron County judge. A...
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T-Squared: The 2013 Session Scramble
There are only two weeks left in the 83rd legislative session. Obviously, there’s still a lot of work to be done. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun.The Tribune is thrilled to announce the...
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The Playlist: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Lawmakers worked together so well during the 83rd legislative session that some called it the “Kumbaya Session.” As reported by Jay Root, Gov. Rick Perry put an end to that hand-holding stuff this week...
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The Playlist: Three is the Magic Number
With Gov. Rick Perry threatening to call lawmakers back for a third special session if they don't pass a transportation bill by the end of July (it looks, at the moment, like they might make the...
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T-Squared: Trib Fellows Launch NewsBiz Site
Last month we announced the selection of our Knight Foundation-funded Tribune Fellows, Jake Batsell and Tim Griggs, who are joining our staff full-time to help us think about how we gather news, engage...
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T-Squared: Kickstarting Our Livestream Up to 11
About three months ago, on June 25, The Texas Tribune had what can only be described as a remarkably big night on television. It was the night Sen. Wendy Davis took the Senate floor for an 11-hour...
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T-Squared: Born Digital
The Tribune was lucky to be born digital. We traffic in pixels, not ink, and that lets us be nimble, entrepreneurial and fast. Whether you come to the Trib for reporting, videos or events, technology...
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