The Ten Most Memorable Things Influential Texans Told Us This Year
These are our favorite quotes from the actors, musicians, business leaders, and other prominent people who appeared in our pages.
December 17, 2020
Illustration by Texas Monthly; Adriene Mishler: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty; Art Acevedo: Michael Buckner/Getty; Emmanuel Acho: Eugene Gologursky/Getty; Brené Brown: Joe Scarnici/Getty; Alyssa Edwards: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
In journalism lingo, a pull quote is a great one-liner, the kind that gets reprinted in big, bold text in the margin of a magazine story. You usually know one when you hear it: the best quotes are often surprising, spontaneous, and short. This year, our staff and freelance writers interviewed dozens of noteworthy Texans from all walks of life, producing so many great quotes that it was difficult to winnow them down. Funny and thoughtful, whimsical and deadly serious, these are ten of our favorites.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Named Co-Chair Of Bipartisan Group No Labels
By Brakkton Booker
December 15, 2020
Maryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is joining the bipartisan group No Labels as its new national co-chairman.
Hogan joins Joseph Lieberman, a one-time vice presidential nominee and former Connecticut senator, who served as a Democrat before switching to an independent in his final years on Capitol Hill.
Together they will help lead the organization that promotes centrist political ideas as a new Congress is set to convene early next year.
“I am honored to help lead No Labels at a time when our message of putting aside partisan differences for the common good is needed more than ever,” Hogan said in a statement Tuesday.
Lock Them Up: Trump Retweets Call For Kemp And GA Sec Of State To Be Thrown In Jail President Donald Trump listens during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) December 15, 2020 11:20 a.m.
President Donald Trump took his attacks against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to a new level on Tuesday.
Harkening back to his “lock her up!” days, Trump retweeted a post by Lin Wood, one of the lawyers who helped lead several fruitless lawsuits seeking to overturn the election and is prone to spreading conspiracy theories, calling for the two Georgia officials to be jailed.
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Originally published on December 16, 2020 6:46 am
Maryland s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is joining the bipartisan group No Labels as its new national co-chairman.
Hogan joins Joseph Lieberman, a one-time vice presidential nominee and former Connecticut senator, who served as a Democrat before switching to an independent in his final years on Capitol Hill.
Together they will help lead the organization that promotes centrist political ideas as a new Congress is set to convene early next year. I am honored to help lead No Labels at a time when our message of putting aside partisan differences for the common good is needed more than ever, Hogan said in a statement Tuesday.
12/8/2020
The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education Breaking News
Textbook revisions generally come after the SBOE votes on standards, then, textbook writers draft materials based on those guidelines and present them to the board. The last time those guidelines were revised was in 1994, the last year Democrats won a statewide election in Texas. The Christian right, which recognized the SBOE as a key battleground of Texas’ culture wars between the religious right and progressive left, had begun its rise within the Republican Party in the late 1980s and built a strong faction on the board by the early 1990s.