The state’s launch of the Texas Women’s Health Program will proceed as planned — without Planned Parenthood — on Jan. 1.
2012
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Demographics
In Mexico, a New Plan Targeting Drug Violence
New President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico recently announced a plan targeting violence in the country. As the country and analysts wait to see results, some aren’t placing bets that the situation will improve soon.
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Economy
Spending-Limits Bill Serves as a Great Excuse
Some state lawmakers don’t trust themselves not to spend more money than they really think they should spend. They want a law that would tie their own hands.
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Health care
Medicaid Waiver Presents Structuring Challenges
Health care providers across Texas are submitting proposals to transform the way they care for the poor and uninsured. But the complicated bureaucratic process for achieving these lofty goals to transform the system has led to disagreements over how to distribute money.
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TribYear: (Some of) Our Best Stories of 2012
For the last week of the year, we picked a sampling of our best of 2012: Hamilton on four-year graduation rates from Texas colleges, Ryan and Galbraith map the troubling levels of the state’s water reservoirs, Galbraith on groundwater fights in the Panhandle, Aaronson on the state insurance commissioner’s turbulent first year, Grissom, Ryan and Dehn on prosecutorial errors in Texas, M. Smith on what to do with failing school districts, E. Smith’s “Satan” interview with Gov. Rick Perry at TribFest, excerpts from “Oops!” — Root’s book on the governor’s presidential campaign, Rocha on the tussle over the Women’s Health Program, Ramshaw on a controversial effort to control Medicaid costs, Batheja examines the boom in toll roads, and Aguilar on “restorative justice” on the Texas-Mexico border.
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Dewhurst Adviser, Accused of Embezzlement, Faces Criminal Inquiry
Criminal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Kenneth “Buddy” Barfield, a top aide to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Dewhurst’s campaign accounts.
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Video: 2012 Video Mixtape
The year 2012 in Texas Tribune videos was a busy one. From Gov. Rick Perry’s failed presidential campaign to rock-and-roller Ted Nugent’s musings, the surprising U.S. Senate campaign, prosecutorial misconduct controversy and pre-legislative prognostications, our cameras were running.
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Public Education
To Boost School Security, Lawmakers Push to Increase Access to Guns
Some Texas legislators are emphasizing the need for teachers and other school personnel to have increased access to firearms on campus. Ahead of the 83rd legislative session, bills have been proposed with that mission in mind.
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State Government
Inside Out in the House Speaker’s Race
Third parties — outsiders — can’t vote in the race for Speaker of the House. But the lawmakers who will actually elect the speaker next month are listening, and acting, on what’s going on outside.
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Criminal Justice
Death Row Inmate’s Case Adds to Debate on Recorded Interrogations
Death row inmate Max Soffar says his 1980 murder confession was coerced. As his lawyers say his case highlights a broader debate about false confessions, police and prosecutors say he told them details only the killer would know.
