Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott accused the federal government of putting U.S. citizens’ lives at risk following a reported cross-border shooting Thursday in Hudspeth County. During the incident, first reported by the El Paso Times, at least one Mexican gunman allegedly shot toward Hudspeth County workers in rural West Texas who were doing maintenance on a desolate road.
Jan 14, 2011 4:08 pm
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State Government
TribBlog: Put Combs on Your List
If the lieutenant governor’s job comes open in 2014, Comptroller Susan Combs is interested. But that’s a long way off, she says, and everything has to line up just right.
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State Government
The Weekly Recap: Jan. 10 – Jan. 14
No time to follow every twist and turn of the Texas Legislature? We’ve made it easier for you with our all-new weekly recaps of the action under the dome. Take a look back at the top political news from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14.
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The Midday Brief: Jan. 14, 2011
Your afternoon reading: Tea Party weighs in on the Senate race, and Jerry Patterson looks to move up
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State Government
TribBlog: Patterson to Run for Lite Guv?
On the heels of Kay Bailey Hutchison’s announcement that she won’t run for another term in the U.S. Senate and rampant speculation that David Dewhurst will run for her seat, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson today walked up to the edge of saying he plans to run for lieutenant governor in 2014.
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The Brief: Jan. 14, 2011
The KBH guessing game is over (finally). Now comes the fun part.
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Health care
The Stroke Belt
The proof of East Texas’ live-hard, die-young culture is in the bread pudding — and the all-you-can-eat fried catfish, the drive-through tobacco barns and the doughnut shops by the dozen. In a community where heavy eating and chain smoking are a way of life, where poverty, hard-headedness and even suspicion hinder access to basic health care, residents die at an average age of 73, or seven years earlier than the longest-living Texans, according to a preliminary county-by-county analysis by the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
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Energy
Who Owns Our Water?
Upping the stakes in a long-running debate over groundwater and property rights, state Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, filed a bill this week that would give Texas landowners ownership of the groundwater beneath their property. As Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports, the filing comes as the Texas Supreme Court considers a similar issue.
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Higher Education
The Legal Limit
Texas produces more law school graduates than it has jobs for. But that hasn’t stopped some lawmakers from proposing that the state build a new law school in the Valley.
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Criminal Justice
Capitol Insecurity
When Andrew Cuomo took office as governor of New York earlier this month, he ordered the removal of the security barricades limiting access to his state’s Capitol. “This Capitol has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people,” he said in his inauguration speech. He could easily have been talking about Texas.