The Texas rhetoric around a key tenet of federal health reform reached a high-water mark on Monday, with back-to-back press conferences at the Capitol featuring political leaders on both sides of the aisle.
April 2013
Posted inState Government
Guest Column: Expanding Medicaid Would Weaken It
Expanding Medicaid in Texas would weaken it, and weakening Medicaid would be a disservice to the Texans who now depend on it.
Posted in
Demographics
Guest Column: Minority Voters Aren’t Anti-Government
In their quest to woo minority voters, Republican leaders are missing something important: Most of those voters won’t buy the party’s anti-government message.
Posted in
Higher Education
Is Perry-Powers Tension About Rivalry or Policy?
The undercurrents of the bickering between Gov. Rick Perry’s administration and UT-Austin President Bill Powers offer a gold mine for the conspiratorial set, with fuel for every obsession: politics, deep school rivalries, policy and governance.
Posted in
Politics
The Brief: April 1, 2013
Dueling events at the Capitol today will pit Texas’ top Republicans against the state’s two highest-profile Democrats.