I will openly admit it: I was wrong about McCain's money. I asserted here that he would break $20 million and he didn't even get to $13 million. That's my B. If you had something serious riding on it, you can send complaints directly to me, although I would be remiss if I didn't remind you that wagering on the fortunes of others is unwise and sinful.

In an effort to clean up the state house, SB 129 seems on its way to becoming law. SB 129 has a long list of companions: HB 72, HB 255, SB 558 are essentially all the same bill.

According to the venerable civil rights organization the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Michigan State University chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organinization, is a hate group.

We'll start the afternoon edition of the roundup with some good news coming out of the TYC debacle — or at least good compared to the situation previously, I suppose. TYC conservator Jay Kimbrough has announced that he expects to release about 400 youth from the program by the end of this week.

To see if students absorbed classroom lessons, schools across America were given a number of measurement tools. One of the most recently popular is state-standardized assessment programs.

Miss the weekend roundup this Sunday? April Fool's! There wasn't one. Everyone was too busy following the slow trickle of campaign finance reports being released.

For this installment of On The Record, I spoke with Ken Molberg, the most senior member of the State Democratic Executive Committee and a former Chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party.

Concerned about encroachment on free speech in the Lone Star State, Senators Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) and Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) coauthored SB 966. It protects journalists from having to reveal confidential sources unless they were eye witnesses to a crime or somebody's life depends on information from that source.

Recently it was brought to my attention by the Baylor College Dems President Alexandra Neville that blatant acts of discrimination occurred on the Baylor Campus Tuesday. Students who travel all over the United States spreading a message of hope and peace to religious students who identify as LGBT, or allies, visited Baylor last Tuesday. Instead of receiving tolerance, the organization known as Soulforce was met with hostility. In addition to the story of the students who witnessed and hosted the gay-rights advocacy group an article can be found in the Baylor newspaper.

Paul Burka spent most of yesterday doing what he's incredibly good at — covering politics. He wants you to know that he is not a wuss for going to bed. The budget battle went on and on 'til (almost) the break of dawn, and the big (totally not secret!) news is that Rick Noriega proposed an amendment swapping out teacher merit pay for an across-the-board pay raise.