The Week in the Rearview Mirror

Three days after a legislative committee said there were grounds to impeach University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall, the chairman of UT’s board of regents, Paul Foster, said Hall should resign.

In light of Gov. Rick Perry’s word of caution about raising tuition, the University of Texas System board of regents on Wednesday only approved tuition increases for out-of-state and health science campus students.

An attorney for Perry asked a judge to allow his witnesses to avoid passing through public areas en route to appearing before a grand jury looking at Perry's actions attempting to induce Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg to resign. The catch? The only possible route goes through Lehmberg's office.

House Speaker Joe Straus named nine legislators to a select committee on child protection. Chaired by state Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, the panel will study deaths due to neglect and abuse and make recommendations afterward. The members will also work with the Protect Our Kids Commission, which was created by legislation in 2013.

Robert Nelsen, who has served as president of the University of Texas-Pan American since 2010, announced Monday that he will be stepping down at the end of August.

A federal appeals court halted the Texas execution of Robert James Campbell just hours before he was to be put to death Tuesday based on questions about whether the 41-year-old inmate is mentally disabled. Campbell was set to be the first prisoner executed since the botched execution in Oklahoma last month.

Health officials canceled a multimillion-dollar contract with Xerox, and the state sued the contractor late last week amid allegations it erroneously doled out hundreds of millions of dollars for medically unnecessary Medicaid claims.

Texas' "sriracha delegation" on Monday made its long-awaited visit to California to woo the makers of the popular hot sauce, but it was no clearer at the conclusion of the visit what might come of it.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Austin on June 20 to give a keynote address at the Long Center, it was announced this week. Her appearance will come 10 days after the publication of her new book, Hard Choices, which looks back at her tenure as the country's top diplomat.

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