Expanding the role of advanced practice nurses in the next legislative session would add nearly 100,000 permanent jobs to the current Texas economy, according to a new report by economist Ray Perryman.
Minjae Park
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Texas Inmate Has Long History of Running for Office
West Virginia primary voters delivered a shocking result on Tuesday, voting in large numbers for an inmate serving a 17-year sentence in Texarkana. It’s perhaps the convict’s most successful run, but hardly his first.
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Higher Education
Tuition to Rise for Most Students in A&M System
Students in the Texas A&M University System will pay more — except those at the system’s flagship — after the regents approved tuition increases today. The tuition hikes come on the heels of legislative budget cuts.
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Higher Education
UT Regents Back Some Tuition Hikes, Commit to New Med Schools
Tuition will go up next year for most students in the University of Texas System, after a Board of Regents vote today. Regents also committed to developing medical schools in Austin and South Texas.
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Help Offered From Midland in Chinese Dissident’s Escape
When a blind human rights lawyer in China escaped house arrest last month, one of the first people to hear the news was a Midland-based nonprofit organization’s president, who offered to help the dissident leave China.
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Energy
Combs, Others Say Plan Protects Rare Lizards, Oil and Gas Interests
Comptroller Susan Combs and other officials testified in favor of a plan that aims to balance protecting a rare lizard species and maintaining oil and gas production in its habitat.
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Economy
Commercial Benefits of University Research Touted at Hearing
Two House committees held a joint hearing today to explore how scientific research at universities can be commercialized for the benefit of businesses and the state economy. They heard testimony from the state’s leading research universities.
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On the Records: Obama Releases First-Quarter Bundler List
Texas “bundlers” have raised at least $5.7 million for President Obama’s re-election effort, according to the list released by the campaign. And 13 new bundlers joined during the first quarter of this year, including nine from Houston.
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Health care
Obesity Series Showing Texas Schools Debuts
Part of an HBO documentary series on obesity was screened Monday in Austin. Comptroller Susan Combs, who appears in the series, emphasized at the screening that parents need to take charge of their children’s health.
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State Government
A Healing Presence at the State Capitol Since 1992
When state employees have headaches, or when children on school trips to the Capitol fall down, they visit Tim Flynn, who has served as the Capitol’s nurse since 1992, through the administrations of Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry.
