Three years after voters approved bonds for fixes at state parks, not all of the money has been spent — despite facilities that haven’t been upgraded since the 1930s and recent hurricane damage that hasn’t been repaired.
Allen Reed
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Health care
Birthing Control [Updated]
Should lawmakers pay hospitals more for refusing to induce early labor, which reduces neonatal costs and harm to mothers? Or should the state be kept out of the private decisions of patients and their physicians?
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Energy
Power From the People
Two Texas universities are building the biggest power plants of their kind in the nation, converting the sweat energy of exercising students into electricity to fuel their campuses.
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State Government
TribBlog: Birdwell Eligibility Rests On Residency, Attorney Says
The fact that Brian Birdwell, who won election to the state Senate Tuesday night, voted in Virginia in 2006 could put him in an eligibility bind, an Austin election attorney said today. But whether anyone will challenge his residency is another question.
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Health care
TribBlog: Renaissance Talks Valley Carve-Out
In a hearing before House budget-writers today, officials of Doctors Hospital at Renaissance conceded they’ll move toward Medicaid managed care in the Rio Grande Valley, so long as it’s done with lots of local input.
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Economy
TribBlog: Holding Out for a TxDOT Hero
Lawmakers have said it before, and today they said it again: Sweeping top-down change is needed within the Texas Department of Transportation.
