Thirty-six states’ worth of nuclear waste has found a home — in Texas.
2011
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Congress
Lamar Smith on the New Congress
The 112th Congress will convene Wednesday with new faces at the helm of a number House committees. Jennifer Stayton of KUT News talked with U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, who will take over as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, about the issues on which he expects to find bipartisan support, the assertion that Americans won’t work certain jobs and why he supports a repeal of the new health care law.
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Energy
Carter Smith: The TT Interview
The executive director of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department discusses the acquisition of a large piece of remote and rugged land along the Devils River; next steps for the bighorn sheep released in Big Bend Ranch State Park; the threats posed by invasive species like the giant salvinia, an exotic, rootless fern, and zebra mussels — and what the state’s budget shortfall might mean for his agency and for the state’s lands, waters, fish, wildlife and parks.
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Public Education
How E-Textbooks Get Made
Electronic textbooks are increasingly touted as an alternative to the more expensive traditional ink-on-paper variety. But how do lessons make the jump from the print to digital?
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Transportation
Pay to Pave
The sixth annual Texas Transportation Forum was the largest yet, with contractors, state officials and others meeting to talk mobility in the state. Mose Buchele of KUT News reports on the added challenges they will face this year to keep Texas moving.
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Transportation
Pay to Pave
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Higher Education
TribBlog: Professors Take Buyouts at UT, A&M
In the midst of state-mandated budget cuts, 135 tenured professors have accepted buyouts at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University.
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The Midday Brief: Jan. 4, 2011
Your afternoon reading: more religious rhetoric in the speaker’s race; Texas’ clout in Congress; and DNA clears wrongly jailed man
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The Brief: Jan. 4, 2011
As the speaker’s race wraps up, the drama’s still thick.
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Criminal Justice
Michele Deitch: The TT Interview
The jail conditions expert and professor at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs on why maintaining treatment programs that keep offenders in their communities and reducing some of the harsh, long-term jail sentences often doled out in Texas’ notoriously tough criminal justice system could be more cost-efficient and allow Texas to close prisons.
