Cleve Foster will be the first Texas inmate to receive the anesthetic drug pentobarbital — instead of sodium thiopental — in the three-drug cocktail that will be used in his execution on April 5.
March 2011
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The Brief: Top Texas News for March 16, 2011
Gov. Rick Perry conceded on Tuesday that it may be raining, but he’s not putting the umbrella all the way up.
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Energy
Nuclear Drama in Japan Halts Texas Project
The nuclear emergency in Japan, 6,500 miles away, has put plans for the expansion of a Texas nuclear facility on hold. And as Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports, utilities in San Antonio and Austin were in talks to buy power from the plant before the crisis began to unfold.
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Public Education
Where Do Elected Officials Send Their Kids to School?
Tribune readers, wondering what was personally at stake for the state’s education policy makers, asked us to check where lawmakers send their children to school. We obliged, and posed that question to all 181 members of the Legislature and 15 members of the State Board of Education.
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Energy
Opponents Fight Nuclear Plant, Citing Japan’s Disaster
In its first hearing since an earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan and threatened nuclear meltdown at several reactors, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission heard testimony today on whether to give early-stage approval to a new nuclear plant in Texas.
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Interactive: Where Do Elected Officials’ Kids Go To School?
Tribune readers, wondering what was personally at stake for the state’s education policy makers, asked us to check where lawmakers send their children to school. We obliged, and posed that question to all 181 members of the Legislature and 15 members of the State Board of Education.
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State Government
Election Contest Committee Sides With Howard
The House Election Contest Committee unanimously voted today to uphold Rep. Will Hartnett’s determination that Donna Howard won the long-disputed HD-48 seat.
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State Government
Voter ID to Hit House Next Week
The House Calendars Committee voted this evening to place the voter ID bill, SB 14, on the schedule for Monday.
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State Government
3.2 Billion From Rainy Day
Texas House Appropriations committee approves use of 3.2 billion of rainy day fund for 2011 budget.
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State Government
Ban Synthetic Drugs, Lawmakers Say
Synthetic drugs and hallucinogenic plants shouldn’t stand a chance in Texas, lawmakers on the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee said today, as they considered a set of bills that would ban the substances.