Want to die comfortably? Move to Corpus Christi. A study of national hospice and hospitalization trends shows the percentage of Medicare patients dying in hospitals there, as opposed to at home or in hospice, is dropping fast.
April 2011
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Criminal Justice
Senate Panel Considers DWI Deferred Adjudication
For the first time in decades, first-time drunken-driving offenders could get deferred adjudication under a bill the Senate Criminal Justice Committee considered Tuesday.
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Higher Education
Is Academic Research Good for Texas?
Despite the dramatic tenor of the current debate, there appears to be near public unanimity in support of the broad concept of academic research. Drill down into specific types of research, however, and a deeper split is revealed.
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Energy
Steve Pollock: The TT Interview
The regional fire coordinator for the Texas Forest Service, near the front lines of a 100,000-acre blaze that swept through Stonewall and King Counties last weekend, says more bad fire weather is on the way later this week.
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Energy
Steve Pollock Audio
An audio interview with Steve Pollock of the Texas Forest Service on the Texas wildfires.
Posted inState Government
The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for April 12, 2011
Your afternoon reading: Doggett amendment repealed; House approves space flight bill; data-breach call center flooded
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Public Education
Doggett Amendment on Federal Education Money Repealed
To avoid government shutdown, congressional Democrats agreed to repeal an amendment that would have prohibited Texas from using federal funds to replace, rather than supplement, state funding of schools.
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Demographics
Héctor “Teto” Murguía: The TT Interview
The Ciudad Juárez mayor on why his city isn’t the most violent in Mexico, why negotiating with cartels would be giving in to the criminals’ demands and why, despite a cartel presence, there aren’t shootouts in the streets of El Paso.
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Health care
Anti-Abortion Groups Disagree on End-of-Life Legislation
The state’s two leading anti-abortion groups — Texas Right to Life and Texas Alliance for Life — agree on where life begins, but not on a law governing how it may come to an end. A house committee will take up the issue today.
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The Brief: Top Texas News for April 12, 2011
In a turn of events, campus-carry legislation could provide Democrats with what’s sure to be one of their few legislative victories this session.
