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Missions differ for Texas governor hopefuls The Dallas Morning News Share     With early voting set to start today, the main contenders for governor go into the final two-week sprint on decidedly different missions. Gov. Rick Perry would like to muster a majority in the Republican primary and avoid a runoff. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison could use a six-week runoff campaign. Debra Medina is scrambling to patch the damage from a controversial radio interview and keep her upstart candidacy alive. More
Construction activity in San Antonio expect to rise 6 percent The San Antonio Business Journal Share
The outlook for construction in Texas is projected to be upbeat for 2010, according to a report released Thursday by McGraw-Hill Construction. The 2010 Texas Construction Outlook shows the value of construction starts in Texas will rise 16 percent to $52.5 billion. Growth is also projected in five major metropolitan markets in Texas. They are Austin (30 percent), Houston (17 percent), Dallas (16 percent), El Paso (8 percent) and San Antonio (6 percent). More Pulte Homes founder William Pulte to retire The Austin Business Journal Share
Pulte Homes founder William J. Pulte, 77, will retire from the company and its board of directors effective March 31, the company said Monday. His position on the board will not be filled, leaving the board with 11 members. Pulte will remain a large shareholder. More
State's budget-cutting efforts begin to take shape The Houston Chronicle Share
The Texas Department of Transportation said it could cut $20 million, more than 20 times the amount it was asked to identify as possible trims in the face of a looming state budget shortfall. Gov. Rick Perry said he was "leading by example" with proposed cutbacks in his office, in large part through a reduction in the controversial Texas Enterprise Fund. More Gov. Rick Perry announces cuts to enterprise program ahead of primaries El Paso Times Share
Gov. Rick Perry proposed cutting his office's budget by chopping $20 million from a fund he uses to lure businesses to the state. Perry focused most of his nearly 7 percent cuts on the Texas Enterprise Fund, a program that provides grants to companies that expand or relocate operations in Texas. More
Texas GOP ballot includes 5 nonbinding resolutions The Associated Press via The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Share
Texas Republican voters will have a chance to give their opinions on such issues as voter identification and federal stimulus spending through five nonbinding resolutions that will appear on the GOP primary ballot. The resolutions, which include perennial Republican priorities that have failed in the Legislature, were chosen by the State Republican Executive Committee and are designed to send a message to elected leaders in Austin and Washington, D.C. More Poll: Majority doesn't favor deportation The San Antonio Express-News Share
More Texas voters think unauthorized immigrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S., through either a path to citizenship or work visas, than favor deporting them, according to a new San Antonio Express-News-Houston Chronicle poll. But the poll showed division on the issue, with 38 percent of respondents favoring deportation. Of the three possibilities offered, that was the answer that got the most support. More
Clinton-era independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr will lead Baylor The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Share
Baylor University regents have named former Clinton White House nemesis Kenneth Starr as the school's new president, saying the one-time independent prosecutor's Christian ideals and experience heading a law school make him ideal to lead the world's largest Baptist university. More Katrina's impact on crime questioned The Houston Chronicle Share
A huge crime wave blamed on thousands of Katrina evacuees in Houston and other Southwest cities never happened, say criminologists who warned public officials and the media to be careful in attributing crime to the former New Orleans residents. Five criminologists who reviewed crime statistics published a study in the current issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice, and found only a "modest" increase in the murder rates of Houston and Phoenix, and none in San Antonio, three cities that took in thousands of evacuees from storm-ravaged New Orleans. More
Water board staff: Reject Pickens The Amarillo Globe-News Share
The Texas Water Development Board staff wants the agency to turn down T. Boone Pickens and George Arrington. Pickens and Arrington, a Hemphill County property owner involved in oil and gas, objected to a Groundwater Management Area 1 plan to set different goals for how much water should be left in the Ogallala and Rita Blanca aquifers in different areas. More Crowded Democratic field in State Board of Education race The Austin American-Statesman Share
In 2006, Central Texas Democrats gave a free pass to Ken Mercer, the victor in a local State Board of Education Republican primary, when they ran no one in November. Not this year. More
Poll: Texas voters would cut highway funding first The Corpus Christi Caller-Times Share
Forty-one percent of Texas voters chose highway funding in a poll asking what they would cut to deal with a projected state budget shortfall as high as $16 billion next year. About one in five surveyed in the poll said they would raise taxes or fees, and fewer said they would cut spending on education or health care for the poor. The Feb. 2-10 telephone survey of 1,508 registered voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. More San Antonio Water System appeals rejected lawsuit The Associated Press via The Amarillo Globe-News Share
The board of the San Antonio Water System has voted to appeal the dismissal of its $1.2 billion water-rights lawsuit against the Lower Colorado River Authority. "We feel we have been wronged," board chairman Alex Briseno said. A judge in Austin threw out the lawsuit on Feb. 1, ruling that the LCRA was protected by sovereign immunity, so the San Antonio system would need legislative approval to sue. More 
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