The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for March 4, 2011
Your afternoon reading:
- "Grass-roots efforts are popping up throughout the state as school superintendents lay out plans for major budget cuts. For many, it will mean fewer teachers, larger class sizes and fewer academic offerings. For some, it also means closing schools." — Texas school districts, parents mobilizing to tackle funding cuts, The Dallas Morning News
- "The Texas Supreme Court today ordered the state comptroller’s office to pay $4.2 million to five wrongfully convicted Texans who spent, in total, 90 years in prison for crimes they did not commit." — Court orders Texas to pay exonerated prisoners, Austin American-Statesman
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Comments (3)
Henry V Fitzgerald Jr via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Aw, skip the background checks. More entertaining to have 'em dodge a gauntlet of licensed gun-toters. Make for some right fine Texas entertainment on them slow "chubbin' only" days.
Matthew Jerome via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think the correct reaction to this should be "Because no one who has ever passed a background check has gone wild and tried to shoot people."
On a side note, I actually like this idea because I run home *around* the Capitol when I can, and I'd save a good amount of steps if I could just bypass security and run through the capitol.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why don't we all just get traceable chips embedded so this creep can feel he is doing some perverted duty?? Wait for the next election. I'm becoming a Democrat because of the sonograms. It's catching- - not a mandate.