By the end of the year, there will likely be four school finance lawsuits filed against the state. Here’s a primer.
2011
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: Primary Concerns
The state doesn’t have maps for its congressional and legislative districts, throwing the date what was going to be a March 6 primary into question. It seemed like a good time to ask the insiders about this.
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Demographics
DOJ Report: “America’s Toughest Sheriff” Violated Civil Rights
Arizona sheriff and Gov. Rick Perry endorser Joe Arpaio allegedly engaged in discriminatory law enforcement practices and racial profiling of Latinos, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Demographics
Weekend Insider: Perry’s Iowa Bus Tour, Mexican Cowboys Fans
In this episode of Weekend Insider, Gov. Rick Perry heads out on a bus tour of Iowa, and reporters Ben Philpott and Jay Root are along for the ride. Reporter Julian Aguilar takes a different type of bus tour — from Mexico to Dallas with some serious Cowboys fans.
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The Midday Brief: Dec. 15, 2011
Your afternoon reading: Perry ad targets Gingrich, Romney; executions, death sentences drop in Texas; Perry’s scandal fixer
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Video: Latest Perry Ad Targets Romney, Gingrich
The Perry campaign’s latest attack ad labels Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as “political insiders.” Both are running ahead of the Texas governor in most polls.
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Criminal Justice
Executions, Death Sentences Drop in Texas, Nation
Leading a national downward trend in the use of the death penalty, Texas has executed just 13 prisoners so far in 2011, the lowest number in more than a decade. And juries meted out only eight new death sentences.
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Health care
Move to Managed Care Comes With Strings Attached
The federal government has granted Texas permission to move almost all of its Medicaid patients into managed care in an effort to save money. But as Carrie Feibel of KUHF News reports, hospitals will now have to do more to show how they spend — and prove they deserve — state money.
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Health care
Video: Texas’ Critical Shortage of Psychiatrists
The Tribune’s Thanh Tan speaks with a Texan living with anxiety and depression, the executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at UT-Austin, and the head psychiatrist for Austin Travis County Integral Care to find out the reasons behind the state’s shortage of mental health providers.
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Perry is Texas Monthly’s Bum Steer of the Year
The magazine was reluctant to confer its “lowest honor” on the Texas governor until his now-infamous brain freeze. “In that moment,” editor Jake Silverstein writes, “all our resistance melted away.”