Longtime Bush-watcher to visit campus

The editor and co-owner of Texas Weekly, the premier newsletter on government and politics in the Lone Star State, will be the campus’ first public affairs writer-in-residence, Sept. 24-28.

Ross Ramsey took the reins of Texas Weekly in 1998 after three years in Texas state government and 17 years in journalism. He will spend his week’s residency at UW–Madison talking to classes in public affairs, political science and journalism and consulting with individual students and faculty.

Ramsey is a longtime observer of President George Bush and the Bush family in Texas. His newspaper, Texas Weekly, has become a trusted source of information for Texas officeholders, lobbyists, political financiers, reporters and political junkies.

Before coming to Texas Weekly, he served as associate deputy comptroller for policy with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He previously was a reporter for the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Times-Herald and before that a radio reporter in Denton and Dallas. Ramsey was educated at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of North Texas.

This is the inaugural semester of the public affairs writer-in-residence program, which has sister residencies each semester in science and public affairs reporting. It is sponsored by the La Follette School of Public Affairs, Department of Political Science, and School of Journalism and Mass Communication; coordinated by University Communications; and supported by the University of Wisconsin Foundation.