Texas Monthly Burka Blog

• San Antonio: Deal or no deal?
• Gallup: Mississippi is “most conservative” (as if we didn’t know)
• Notes and Quotes from the Senate debate
• Great Scott!
• Will conservatives jump into the school finance fight?
• GOP looks to 2013 for redistricting
• FLA polls show Mitt pulling away from Newt
• The Hill: Texas Democrats, minorities, near “huge win”" with redistricting settlement
• The Texas newspapers’ poll

Houston Chronicle Politics

• Houston lawmaker takes redistricting flap to U.S. Justice
• Davis Amendment Would Defund Enterprise/Emerging Tech Funds
• The First Word: Dewhurst'd
• Tough times or not, tax break for yachts steams ahead
• Chopping block: Eliminate toll road advertising
• Where's the budget outrage, some lawmakers wonder
• Sylvester Turner builds a case
• Youth Commission Sunset Passes after Rancorous Debate
• Explainer: Comparing the House and Senate Budgets

Capitol Annex

• Dewhurst Attacks DOJ Over Voter ID
• House General Investigating Committee To Look Into Charter Schools
• Democrats Offer More Budget Cuts To Keep Peace
• Colorado Democrats Elect Rick Palacio
• Public Drama Builds In Wisconsin
• Democrats Try To Maintain Government, Order
• Straus Announces House Committee Assignments
• Democrats Call Straus’ Select Committees Political Pandering
• VIDEO: Doggett Questions Bernanke

Grits for Breakfast

• Mexican presidential elections and border security
• 'How game theory is reinventing crime fighting'
• Corpus crime lab expansion aims to reduce backlogs
• 'School Discipline: A Pathway to the Juvenile Justice System or an Opportunity for Effective Intervention?'
• More of this, please: Vocational training for prisoners facilitates jobs on reentry
• Dallas DA defies court order, refuses to reveal police criminal histories
• Few counties seek funding so far to update case disposition data
• More good coverage on law-enforcement charity scams
• Mass incarceration and the limits of "the new Jim Crow" analogy

In the Pink Texas

• Rick Perry Doesn’t See His Shadow, Crawls Out of Hole
• Hunger Strikes
• Nothing But Net
• How About a Nice Game of Chess?
• What’s Your Prediction for the Fight? PAIN.
• Church Control That You Control!
• Newt Changes His Name to ‘Jewt,’ Aligns Himself With Kosher Elderly Jews
• Mutually Assured Deportation
• You’re Welcome

Off the Kuff

• FBI looking into DA’s office over grand jury “investigation”
• Interview with Cindy Vara-Leija
• The numbers in the “deal”
• As always, the hole is bigger than we thought
• There is nothing but highways
• Abbott proposes redistricting deal
• Interview with Grady Castleberry
• Help me, Long-Range Financial Management Task Force! You’re our only hope!
• LED power

Virtual Capitol

• VirtualCapitol: Lawsuit seeks to stop Railroad commissioner's paycheck http://t.co/trx2e6Cf
• VirtualCapitol: Judge dismisses sonogram lawsuit http://t.co/fY8MgrTZ
• VirtualCapitol: Abbott announces new redistricting maps; says April 3 election could proceed http://t.co/yaH7ZgYC
• VirtualCapitol: A super PAC surfaces in the U.S. Senate race http://t.co/1uMchFRa
• VirtualCapitol: Democrat Gibson drops out of Senate race http://t.co/aZsgbjAU
• VirtualCapitol: Kimbrough lands new state job, this time at DPS http://t.co/eRehhVHH
• VirtualCapitol: Liz Geise named mansion administrator http://t.co/OaQBdVeX
• VirtualCapitol: Craig James makes his case in Lubbock radio interview http://t.co/qVUmRoB8
• VirtualCapitol: Pro-Perry super PAC raised $5.5 million in 2011 http://t.co/fgguJqfS

Texas Kaos

• Weekly Roundup and Open Thread
• The Republican Jihad On Women
• Good Stuff Happens on D Watch
• Juan Williams discovers that Republican Primary Candidates Do Racial Dog-whistling!
• Governor OOPS Owes Texas $2.7 Million
• Abortion, Choice and Absolutist Morality
• Adios MoFo
• Poor Texas. Forrest Homer Simpson is Coming Back.
• The Triumph of the BIG LIE

Letters from Texas

• Headline of the day so far
• Buzz from the TV show
• Komen Foundation, again
• Watch out, YNN
• Komen's race for the bottom of the septic tank
• Historical reenactment
• Why the Florida Republican primary is important, and why Paul and Santorum don't matter
• Buzz from the TV show: Perry's post-Presidential fortunes
• Presidential primaries: what a difference a week makes

Texas Insider

Lone Star Times

• Weekend Maintenance Open Comments
• Friday Music Thread
• LST Down Time
• Friday Open Comments
• Ol’ McDonald does his campaign harm…
• Appropriate Comparisons
• What Me Worry: Time Magazine? Gitzit?
• Thursday Open Comments
• Nukes in Iran – Victor Davis Hanson & ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer