As he has taken on natural gas companies and the agencies that regulate them, DISH mayor Calvin Tillman has become a media darling, an unlikely face of oil and gas reform and a public speaker crisscrossing the country. Now he’s ready to give up — and to leave town entirely.
July 2010
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State Government
Sunset Finishes Workers’ Comp Fixes
State lawmakers on the Sunset Advisory Commission make final remarks after the panel unanimously approves changes to the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s medical quality review process.
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State Government
After Sunset
Sunset Advisory Commissioners unanimously approved a series of changes to the troubled Division of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance on Tuesday, but not before aggressively rewriting the Sunset staff’s original recommendations to improve the division’s medical quality review process.
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Energy
Leaky Pipes
A Texas Railroad Commissioner is proposing to replace steel natural gas pipes with plastic. Mose Buchele of KUT News reports.
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TribBlog: Focused Advocacy Responds
The defendants in the HillCo lawsuit filed their answer in court today, denying all charges against them and calling them “meritless.”
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2010: More Green Elephants?
An e-mail unearthed in court papers has the Democratic Lone Star Project accusing Republicans of a new connection to the Green Party of Texas’ attempt to get on the ballot — a charge questioned by the Greens and denied by the Republicans.
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HuTube: White Takes the Perry Challenge
The Bill White campaign took seriously Gov. Rick Perry’s challenge last week to find “anybody who can outwork” him.
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Energy
TribBlog: Uribe’s Glamour Shot
“I don’t know whether to be flattered or to be creeped out.”
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: How Public Servants Make Their Money
The Texas Ethics Commission recently released more than 3,000 personal financial statements — documents that detail state officials’ financial interests and liabilities. Read, download or embed them with our new application.