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Senators gather in Texas Senate well as they discuss SB 14 Voter ID January 26th, 2011

State Government

TribBlog: Texas Senate Committees Names

By Ross RamseyJan. 28, 2011

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst appointed senators to committees late this afternoon

Demonstrators march through the streets of downtown Dallas in 2010 to protest the passage of Arizona's controversial new immigration law.

Demographics

TribBlog: El Paso Lawmakers Denounce Perry’s Request

By Julián AguilarJan. 28, 2011

Gov. Rick Perry’s request that lawmakers work to abolish “sanctuary cities” in Texas could potentially increase crime in spots across the border from Mexico, according to lawmakers who met in El Paso today to denounce the governor’s request.

Thousands of motorists wait in line on the southernmost stretch of IH-35 in Laredo, Texas. Despite a global recession and escalating violence in Mexico thousands of "paisanos" still made the trek south for Christmas. As the hours passed, however, their concerns about traveling Mexico's highways at night grew. A recent prison break in Nuevo Laredo didn't help soothe their fears about bandits lurking on the roadways. "We might have to get a hotel here," said one traveler.

Demographics

TribBlog: DPS: No, Really, Don’t Go to Mexico

By Brandi GrissomJan. 28, 2011

In case you were planning any trips to violence-ridden Mexico, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety says don’t — again.

State Government

The Midday Brief: Jan. 28, 2011

By David MutoJan. 28, 2011

Your afternoon reading: nursing homes at risk, and Susan Combs hints at lite guv

State Government

The Brief: Jan. 28, 2011

By David MutoJan. 28, 2011

Settle in, because voter ID’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

Higher Education

Business: Hands Off Public Education

By Erika Aguilar, KUT NewsJan. 28, 2011

Lawmakers will soon take an ax to the state budget, but business leaders are hoping one big-ticket item will be spared. At its annual conference in Austin this week, the Texas Association of Business sounded warnings about potential cuts to public education. Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports.

Inaugural of Texas Governor Rick Perry on the south steps of the Texas Capitol 01-18-11.

Politics

Fair Game?

By Ross RamseyJan. 28, 2011

Are families out of bounds in politics? A newspaper columnist’s recent unflattering piece on Anita Perry has what passes for a Royal Court at the Capitol debating that question.

Energy

Bill Neiman Discusses Native Seeds

By Kate GalbraithJan. 28, 2011

Bill Neiman, owner of Native American Seed in Junction, Texas, talks about how his career focus evolved from conventional landscapes to native plants.

A sexual assault evidence collection kit

Criminal Justice

Testing the Evidence

By Brandi GrissomJan. 28, 2011

In police departments across Texas, tens of thousands of rape kits have been sitting on the shelves of property storage rooms for years — thanks to strained budgets, overworked crime labs and a law enforcement philosophy that such kits are primarily useful as evidence if a stranger committed the assault. Victims’ rights advocates and some lawmakers say they’ll work to pass legislation this year to take that evidence out of storage and create a DNA database that would help track rapists and perhaps even identify those who have been wrongly convicted. “I think we owe it to every person who has been raped,” says state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.