It isn't clear to me, and it isn't clear to people at the paper, exactly why the waiver wasn't acceptable in its earlier form when other people found ways to find it acceptable.

Texas has had one of the nation's worst public health records for decades. More than a quarter of its citizens have no health insurance.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

This is one of his core issues, one of the things he has been concerned about the longest.