NBC News reported Saturday that President-elect Donald Trump had allegedly tapped Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state. In a tweet Sunday morning, Trump called Tillerson “a world class player and dealmaker.”
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Public Education
Analysis: The state’s declining support for public education in Texas
Had the state kept its share of school funding constant for the past 10 years, voters might not be griping about rising property taxes. The state is spending more than it used to, but it’s spending less per student.
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Energy
Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil, and climate change probes — and how Texas is involved
Amid news that President-elect Donald Trump will make Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson the country’s next secretary of state, a refresher on the oil giant’s efforts to thwart Democratic-led probes into what it knew about climate change and when.
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New job for Charlie Strong means UT saves millions
Charlie Strong has a new job at the University of South Florida, which means the University of Texas at Austin will save some of the millions of dollars it owes its recently fired coach.
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Politics
So far, Texans mostly snubbed as Trump fills administration
Reports surfaced Saturday that President-elect Donald Trump had picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state, making perhaps his most controversial nomination yet due to the Texan’s close ties to Russia. But before word got out about Tillerson, the Lone Star State had come up empty in Trump’s cabinet appointments.
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Energy
Report: Trump taps a Texan, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, for secretary of state
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state, turning to a Texan to be the country’s top diplomat.
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Higher Education
Accreditation woes a distraction for UTRGV students
Students at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley are worried after their school was placed on probation this week. The school’s president says he is confident he’ll get the problems fixed.
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Politics
Despair, meteors and f-bombs: Texans’ write-in voters had a lot to say
Texans who weren’t interested in any of the presidential candidates on the ballot wrote in everything from Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz to Chuck Norris and Harambe. Some left colorful messages for election officials.
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UT case lingers as Applewhite takes over as new UH football coach
Major Applewhite, whose 2009 affair with a student while at UT-Austin is part of a discrimination case against his former employer, was announced as the University of Houston’s new head football coach.
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Health care
Texas officials confirm 4 more locally transmitted Zika cases
State and local officials have identified four more locally transmitted cases of Zika in Cameron County, weeks after the first such case in Texas was reported there.
