The Trump administration announcement reverses an Obama-era decision in 2012 to cut federal women’s health funding to Texas. That came as punishment after the Texas Legislature excluded Planned Parenthood from the Healthy Texas Women program in 2011.
2020
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Higher Education
Texas A&M chancellor fires back at Harvard over criticism of controversial beef study
John Sharp sent Harvard’s president an open letter calling for an investigation into Harvard scientists whose actions he said “are false and harmful to Texas A&M University and its faculty.”
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TribCast
TribCast: The money fight for the Texas House and a very special election
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Cassi and Patrick about what we learned from recent campaign finance reports, a nationally targeted special election runoff for a Texas House seat, and presidential endorsements.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Michael Bloomberg’s Texas strategy is expensive and unprecedented. Can it work?
Bloomberg is skipping the early states and hoping his big staff and big spending in states like Texas can launch him to victory.
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Homeless in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas nonprofits helping refugees should focus on homelessness. Refugee groups say it doesn’t work that way.
“Resettlement funding cannot simply be reallocated to other problem areas such as homelessness,” said the CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Cheating spoils the results — in baseball, and in Texas politics
Cheating ruins victory, creating questions about what might have happened. It’s true in sports, and it’s true in politics, too.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Elizabeth Warren backs Eliz Markowitz in battleground Texas House race
The U.S. senator from Massachusetts is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to get involved in the Jan. 28 special election runoff for House District 28.
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In 2020 and Beyond, Here’s How to Protect More Injured Texas Workers
If you are a Texas employer that does not have workers’ compensation insurance, you should become a QCARE program sponsor.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Warren reveals more endorsements from former Castro, O’Rourke supporters
The Massachusetts U.S. senator’s latest endorsements come from four state lawmakers who represent O’Rourke’s native El Paso and previously supported him or Castro.
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Politics
Meet the Texas-based church security business training worshippers to fight back in mass shootings
Texas has seen two mass shootings in churches in three years, which has some churchgoers exploring training programs to take down an attacker.
