By KERA News & Wire Services
Dallas, TX – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White says Texas needs to limit the amount of time someone can serve as governor. White is trying to unseat Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who's seeking an unprecedented third full four-year term.
White says he wants to limit the governorship to two four-year terms. The former Houston mayor, in a written statement Tuesday, said there should be a voter referendum on the issue.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner says the governor disagrees. Miner says Perry trusts the voters to decide each election whether they want someone to remain in office.
White says Texas needs term limits to avoid the use of power by special interests to entrench a governor in office.
The election is Nov. 2.
Van Cliburn piano competition plays in documentary
This isn't "American Idol."
It's more like "Global Idols at the Ivories," a glorious mix of virtuosity and great music documenting 29 young pianists in their drive to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
The outcome of this 90-minute film, airing tomorrow night on KERA 13, is hardly a secret, despite its coy title, "A Surprise in Texas." The contest, closely followed in classical music circles every four years, took place in May 2009.
The competition, unfolding over three weeks in Fort Worth, is captured in the film as a blend of its participants representing 14 countries, the music they play, the jurors who measure their performances, and even the Texas hospitality of the host families that put them up.
The competition, first held in 1962, honors the musical genius who, in the deep freeze of the Cold War four years earlier, had won the first Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.
"A Surprise In Texas" Airs Wednesday night at 7PM on KERA 13
No video in next Corpus Christi 'fight club' trial
Cell phone video of residents fighting at a state facility for the mentally disabled in Corpus Christi will not be allowed in the trial of the man who allegedly shot it.
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports an appeals court has affirmed a judge's decision to ban the video in the trial of now-former employee Timothy Dixon. Prosecutors planned to meet Tuesday to review the ruling.
Someone gave the cell phone to an off-duty police officer in early 2009. The video was used in the conviction of four other now-former workers.
Dixon is charged with four counts of injury to a disabled person.
Dixon attorney Ira Miller argued the man who found the phone admitted he did not intend to return it. Miller says that amounted to theft and cited law that evidence obtained illegally cannot be used.