| 04/13/2001 Ruben Navarrette: Texas could get a Hispanic governor
As goes Los Angeles, so goes Texas? When Antonio Villaraigosa won the most votes in a crowded field of Los Angeles mayoral candidates and secured a spot in a June runoff election, he came one step closer to making history. Anticipating the 2002 governor's race in the Lone Star State, Mexican-Americans in Texas are thinking they could make a little history themselves if a South Texas businessman, Tony Sanchez Jr., runs as expected. 04/12/2001 Blackie Sherrod: Espionage more confusing than it used to be
The problem is embarrassing to admit, but we of the Great Unwashed just don't comprehend modern spycraft. They keep changing the dang perimeters. Carl P. Leubsdorf: Politics still ain't beanbag
In last fall's campaign, George W. Bush said he would seek an across-the-board tax cut, education reform and increased defense spending. 04/11/2001 Henry Tatum: Legislators' failure to pass Bush reform comes back to haunt them
It was a rare defeat for George W. Bush, and he wasn't making any attempts to hide his anger. As the governor of Texas, he was driving the state down a path to genuine school finance reform when the wheels suddenly came off. Months of public hearings in 1996 to find out how deeply Texans resented the outrageous school property taxes they were paying failed to win the state Senate over to Mr. Bush's new education financing strategy. Ruben Navarrette: Fox should mind his own house
Vicente Fox should mind matters back home. Mexican President Vicente Fox worries greatly about the welfare of Mexican immigrants in the United States. You can't blame the guy. Looking north has got to be easier than rolling back centuries-old prejudices and alleviating the plight of indigenous people in his own country. 04/10/2001 William McKenzie: The politics of president's tax cut
Tax bills always are complicated. And not just because lobbyists line the hallways outside the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, looking for a break here or there. The politics of tax bills also grow woolly. 04/08/2001 Rena Pederson: A historic double bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was a rare juxtaposition. A year ago, Bill Clinton, a lame-duck president, spoke to the gathering of the nation's newspaper editors here. This year, Hillary Clinton, a freshman senator, was at the podium. She had been offered several different speaking times, but she chose 11 a.m. Thursday, so she would speak right before the new president, George W. Bush. 04/06/2001 Ruben Navarrette: Don't back off testing immigrant students
Several years ago, during a conversation about what ails the American educational system, a school superintendent let his guard down and gave me the secret. People mistakenly assume those schools exist to serve kids, he said. They don't. Schools exist mainly to serve the convenience of the adults who work in them. 04/05/2001 Blackie Sherrod: Erudition erupts where some least expect it
Bless Eddie Barker's heart, is all I wish to say. We have discovered another common bond, heretofore hidden beneath a stack of common newsgathering labor. Carl P. Leubsdorf: Reducing foreign involvement isn't as easy as Bush indicated
China's downing of a U.S. spy plane has taken the headlines from White House visits of Middle East leaders. 03/20/2001 William McKenzie: Bush-Breaux relationship will be key
Throughout his governorship, George W. Bush had to work closely with Democrats because Republicans didn't control the Texas Legislature. It was odd seeing the Republican businessman deal with Democrats who were trial lawyers by profession or partisans under other governors. But he did, and his governorship thrived because of it. |
