Your afternoon reading.
August 2010
Posted in
Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Supreme Court Says No to Keller
On the same day the Texas Supreme Court denied Judge Sharon Keller’s request for intervention in her sanction from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, she has filed a second request to appeal the commission’s decision.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: Aug. 16, 2010
Things got territorial in the governor’s race over the weekend.
Posted in
Public Education
Special Treatment
Special education students in Texas are nearly twice as likely to be suspended as students in the general population, according to the Texas Education Agency — and though they make up just 10 percent of the overall enrollment, they account for 21 percent of expulsions.
Posted in
Energy
Dust to Dust?
Texas has the most acres of any state enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which seeks to prevent another Dust Bowl by paying farmers to plant grass instead of crops. But the program has fallen on hard times, and its participants worry they will, too.
Posted inState Government
NPR’s Weekend Edition Profiles the Trib
NPR’s David Folkenflik profiled the Trib on Weekend Edition Sunday, describing both the opportunities and challenges for a nonprofit news organization after nine months in operation.
Posted in
T-Squared
T-Squared: The World is Listening
NPR’s Weekend Edition shows the Trib a little love. Will you?
Posted in
Demographics
Alan Bersin, Audio Clip
The Tribune interviews U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin.
Posted in
Demographics
Anchors Away
As anti-immigration sentiment continues to rise along with border violence, proposals to abolish the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision have ricocheted through the political noise machine as an antidote for the incidence of “anchor babies.” But as a practical matter, what would the removal of birthright citizenship mean for the country? Pierce the fog of rhetoric and you’ll quickly discover that nobody really knows — including the state and federal lawmakers yelling loudest for change.
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Demographics
Alan Bersin: The TT Interview
The commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on why he believes the Texas-Mexico border is secure, why deportations of criminals have reached unprecedented levels, why trade between the U.S. and Mexico still thrives and what motivates most undocumented immigrants to enter this country illegally.
