A bill allowing guns on college campuses took the first step Wednesday toward what appears to be its likely passage.
March 2011
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State Government
VIDEO: Will 90 Lawmakers Approve Tapping Rainy Day Fund?
Does tapping the Rainy Day Fund have 90 House votes to move on to the Senate — and how much will the process of getting there damage the even bigger task for lawmakers of setting the next biennium’s budget?
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Health care
Cecile Richards: The TT Interview
The president of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Democratic Gov. Ann Richards on Republican lawmakers’ efforts to defund her organization, a Texas attorney general’s opinion she says will keep low-income women from preventative care, and how her mother would’ve handled all of this.
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Higher Education
UT System Reassigns O’Donnell: “We’re Listening”
Top officials at the University of Texas System said in an interview Wednesday that they are moving quickly to allay the concerns regarding the direction of UT, starting with the reassignment of Rick O’Donnell.
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State Government
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 71
This week on the TribCast, Ross, Reeve, Ben and special guest Jim Henson discuss the Rainy Day Fund, Hispanic Republicans, Tommy Lee Jones and a good deal more.
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Criminal Justice
Lawmakers Get an Earful About Campus Carry
Supporters and opponents of allowing concealed handguns on college campuses packed a House committee room today where a number of bills that would allow it were being discussed.
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The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for March 16, 2011
Your afternoon reading: UT System reform controversy deepens; substitute execution drug chosen; Senate passes eyewitness ID bill
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Criminal Justice
Senate Approves Eyewitness ID Reform
The Texas Senate unanimously approved a bill today that would revamp eyewitness identification policies used by law enforcement agencies.
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Higher Education
Six Degrees of Jeff Sandefer: Reform and Texas Higher Ed
The recent hiring of Rick O’Donnell as a special adviser to the board of regents at the University of Texas System has some observers — worried about the implications for the University of Texas at Austin — playing connect the dots.
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Higher Education
Prominent UT Alumnus Warns of “Degradation” at University
Prominent University of Texas alumnus Gordon Appleman says recent changes at the UT System Board of Regents “seemed important enough to where I ought to do something rather than sit by and watch it happen.”