An audio interview with Steve Pollock of the Texas Forest Service on the Texas wildfires.
Steve Pollock Audio
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The Midday Brief: Top Texas Headlines for April 12, 2011
Your afternoon reading: Doggett amendment repealed; House approves space flight bill; data-breach call center flooded
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Public Education
Doggett Amendment on Federal Education Money Repealed
To avoid government shutdown, congressional Democrats agreed to repeal an amendment that would have prohibited Texas from using federal funds to replace, rather than supplement, state funding of schools.
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Demographics
Héctor “Teto” Murguía: The TT Interview
The Ciudad Juárez mayor on why his city isn’t the most violent in Mexico, why negotiating with cartels would be giving in to the criminals’ demands and why, despite a cartel presence, there aren’t shootouts in the streets of El Paso.
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Health care
Anti-Abortion Groups Disagree on End-of-Life Legislation
The state’s two leading anti-abortion groups — Texas Right to Life and Texas Alliance for Life — agree on where life begins, but not on a law governing how it may come to an end. A house committee will take up the issue today.
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The Brief: Top Texas News for April 12, 2011
In a turn of events, campus-carry legislation could provide Democrats with what’s sure to be one of their few legislative victories this session.
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Energy
Lawmakers Eye Repeal of Natural Gas Tax Break
The state of Texas generates a fortune from taxes on mining for oil, gas and minerals. But as Ryland Barton of KUT News and ReportingTexas.com reports, the natural gas industry enjoys a special incentive that some legislators want to scrap.
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Energy
Drought Could Keep Wildfires Blazing Until Summer
Firefighters continue to battle massive wildfires that have scorched more than 300,000 acres across the state in the last week. As Crystal Chavez of KUT News reports, with the state still battling a drought, little relief is in sight.
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Demographics
Héctor “Teto” Murguía: The TT Interview
The Ciudad Juárez mayor on why his city isn’t the most violent in Mexico, why negotiating with cartels would be giving in to the criminals’ demands and why, despite a cartel presence, there aren’t shootouts in the streets of El Paso.
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Economy
Tax Panel Considers Making $1M Exemption Permanent
The House Ways & Means Committee is considering several bills that have the same mission: to make permanent the franchise tax exemption for businesses that report $1 million or less in gross revenue.
