Texas Democrats are advertising their displeasure with the budgets being proposed by Gov. Rick Perry and House and Senate leaders. Literally.
Mar 7, 2011 5:43 pm
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Higher Education
A&M, Assn. of American Universities in Fight Over “Ill-Conceived” Reforms
The Association of American Universities, widely considered the gatekeeper to coveted tier-one status, has strongly criticized the Texas A&M University System’s new policy of tracking the money spent on and generated by each individual professor.
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Public Education
Democrats Attack GOP Budget Plans on Radio
The Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee’s radio ads attacking budget plans in the Republican-dominated Legislature.
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State Government
Supporters Plead for Historical Commission Funds
Texas history supporters came out in force today to tell the Senate Finance Committee why the Texas Historical Commission should be saved from a 77 percent budget cut.
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The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for March 7, 2011
Your afternoon reading: Supreme Court says Hank Skinner can sue; Perry makes Rainy Day plea; bad news for Craig James
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Demographics
New Day Rising: Steve Murdock on the Coming Hispanic Majority
At the Tribune’s New Day Rising symposium on Feb. 28, former state demographer and former U.S. Census Bureau director Steve Murdock talked extensively about demographic change in Texas.
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U.S. Supreme Court Keeps Hank Skinner Alive, Again [Updated]
The U.S. Supreme Court has given Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner another chance at getting DNA testing done on evidence he says could prove he did not kill his live-in girlfriend and her two sons in 1993.
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The Brief: Top Texas News for March 7, 2011
Today, Gov. Rick Perry will try to put the brakes on House Republicans, who appear readier than ever to tap the Rainy Day Fund.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: The Consequences of Public Ed Cuts Will Be…
For the latest installment of our nonscientific survey of political and policy insiders, we asked what it would mean to make deep cuts to public education, as proposed by the House, the Senate and the governor.
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A Short History of the Rainy Day Fund
A House committee may vote this week to spend more than $4 billion of the state’s Rainy Day Fund to help close the state’s current budget gap. As the fight heats up over whether to draw from the $9.4 billion fund, Matt Largey of KUT News takes a look at where all that money came from anyway.
