Episode 114: The Home Stretch
The home stretch begins as the Legislature moves towards adjournment and our panel begins its assessment of the session.
Panelists:
- Christy Hoppe, The Dallas Morning News
- Ross Ramsey, Texas Weekly
- Clay Robison, Austin Bureau Chief, Houston Chronicle
Christy
Hoppe
Christy Hoppe is the Austin Bureau Chief of The
Dallas Morning News. She has covered politics and policies in the
state Capitol through the terms of four governors. Prior to Austin,
Christy worked as a reporter and editor in Dallas. A graduate of the
University of Texas, she began her newspaper career with The Corpus
Christi Caller-Times.
Ross
Ramsey
Ross Ramsey is the editor of Texas Weekly,
the premier newsletter on government and politics in the Lone Star State.
Before taking the reins at Texas Weekly in September 1998, Ramsey was Associate Deputy Comptroller for Policy with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He also did time as the agency's Director of Communications and as Executive Assistant to then-Comptroller John Sharp. Prior to that 28-month stint in government, Ramsey spent 17 years in journalism, reporting for The Houston Chronicle and The Dallas Times Herald and, as a Dallas-based freelance business writer, for a number of regional and national magazines and newspapers.
He also worked for seven years in broadcasting, covering news for radio stations in Denton and Dallas. Texas Weekly, now celebrating its 21st year of continuous publication, has become a favored and trusted source of information for Texas officeholders, lobbyists, political financiers, reporters and other political junkies from Humble, Texas, to the White House.
Clay
Robison
Austin Bureau Chief, Houston
Chronicle, December 1982 to present.
City Desk Reporter, Houston Chronicle, February-December 1982.
Austin reporter, San Antonio Light, January 1971 to February
1982.
Clay Robison has covered numerous governors, legislative sessions and
many a political conventions. He also traveled extensively across the
country helping to cover George W. Bush's first race for president in
2000. Mr. Robison co-authored three college textbooks on state government
and politics: Government and Politics in the Lone Star State, Politics
in America Texas Edition, and Government by the People Texas Version.
A Native of San Antonio, he graduated from Trinity University.
