In March we broke our previous records for monthly uniques and monthly page views — by a lot. And we’re ahead of where we should be year-to-date in every category of fundraising.
Evan Smith
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Public Education
TribLive: Don’t Cut Public Ed, Thompson Says
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, the longest-serving woman, African American and Democrat in the Texas House, forcefully argued that state funding of public education should not be cut — unless school districts are made to tap into their own reserves.
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Higher Education
UTSA Prof to Jon Stewart: Obama Right on Libya
Mansour O. El-Kikhia, chair of the political science department at the University of Texas at San Antonio, cited the threat to perhaps 50,000 of his fellow countrymen — including members of his own family.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
M. Smith on the continuing controversy over Beaumont’s school administrators, Tan on the deepening divide over the consequences of the House budget, Hamilton on the latest in the fight over higher ed accountability, Grissom on young inmates in adult prisons, Aguilar on the voter ID end game, Tan and Hasson’s Rainy Day Fund infographic, Ramsey on the coming conflict over school district reserves, M. Smith and Aguilar on Laredo ISD’s missing Social Security numbers, Galbraith on environmental regulators bracing for budget cuts and Ramshaw on greater scrutiny of neonatal intensive care units: The best of our best content from March 21 to 25, 2011.
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State Government
AUDIO: A Conversation with Joe Straus
Full audio of our TribLive conversation with Speaker Joe Straus on March 10, 2011.
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Health care
TribLive: Straus on Taxes, Abortion, Campus Carry and Obama’s Citizenship
For our latest TribLive conversation, I sat down with the Speaker of the Texas House, Joe Straus, to talk about budget cuts, possible sources of revenue, hot-button social issues and more.
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State Government
VIDEO: A Conversation With Joe Straus
Full video of our TribLive conversation with Speaker Joe Straus on March 10, 2011.
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Criminal Justice
TribLive: Joe Straus on Campus Carry
At our TribLive conversation last Thursday, Speaker Joe Straus talked about proposed legislation that would legalize concealed carry on college campuses in Texas.
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State Government
TribLive: Joe Straus on Taxes
At our TribLive conversation last Thursday, Speaker Joe Straus talked about whether the Texas House would consider raising taxes to pay down part of the budget shortfall.
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Health care
TribLive: Joe Straus on the Abortion Sonogram Bill
At our TribLive conversation last Thursday, Speaker Joe Straus talked about the as yet unresolved differences between the House and Senate versions of the abortion sonogram bill.
