If Sen. Kim Brimer loses his reelection bid, the Texas Senate might be asked to decide whether he lost to a legal candidate, and whether or not she should be given a spot in the Senate.

Texas has been blessed with a low unemployment rate, compared with other large states and our nation... that is all about to change.

The Kim Brimer-Wendy Davis court fight is over for the moment, with a Dallas appeals court deciding to leave Davis on the November ballot.

For the second week in a row, state bloggers are writing about Congress's response to the nation's financial crisis. Others are recovering from Hurricane Ike, scrutinizing the Texas Youth Commission and watching the vice presidential debate of the millennium. And we've got the usual assortment of miscellaneous posts.

House Speaker Tom Craddick created a committee to look at the state's hurricane response and to figure out what lawmakers should do to improve it next time.

Texas Libertarians, for the most part, don't like the bailout approved by Congress this week. And their party collected their comments and sent them along. Here they are, unfiltered:

Texans in Congress voted 15-17 on the bailout the second time around, after voting 9-23 the first time. If there's an asterisk next to a name, that's a member whose vote changed from the first vote early in the week to the second on Friday.