Even as Texas pursues a lawsuit attacking federal health care reform, some state officials are reluctantly laying the groundwork to implement parts of the law.
Jan 31, 2011 5:00 am
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State Government
A Conversation with Michael Williams
For our latest TribLive conversation, I sat down with the soon-to-be-ex Rairoad Commissioner and declared 2012 U.S. Senate candidate to talk about why he’s qualified to serve, what he thinks of his potential primary opponents and a range of issues that he’d face if he were in D.C. today.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: A Real Legislative Emergency is…
For the latest installment of our nonscientific survey of political and policy insiders on issues of the moment, we asked whether voter fraud is a policy issue or a political one, what should and shouldn’t be on the governor’s list of emergency items for the Legislature, how those designations should be used and whether the Legislature ought to be allowed to set its own early priorities.
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Environment
Michael Williams on Climate Change
The 2012 U.S. Senate candidate on whether he believes climate change exists.
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Demographics
A Conversation With Michael Williams
For our latest TribLive conversation, I sat down with the soon-to-be-ex railroad commissioner and declared 2012 U.S. Senate candidate to talk about why he’s running, what he thinks of his potential primary opponents and how his campaign will or won’t be impacted by his race.
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Counting Noses
When San Antonio Sen. Gregory Luna, a Democrat, was dying in 1999, he got the lieutenant governor at the time — Rick Perry — to agree to give him 24 hours notice before any Senate vote on a public school voucher bill Luna opposed. He would get to Austin, he said then, to be the deciding vote against that legislation.
