An interview with Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Empower Texans.
Audio: An Interview With Michael Quinn Sullivan
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Health care
Diaper Change
Call it a bad case of adult diaper drama: Incontinence product vendors are facing off against the state comptroller’s office over plans to competitively bid underpads, catheters and other supplies for Texas Medicaid patients.
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Demographics
Hosed in Waco
It was a bad Election Night for residents of the largest city in McLennan County. After years of regional dominance, their congressional seat belongs to Bryan, halfway to Houston; their state senate seat is 86 miles away in Granbury; and one of their House seats has moved three counties east, to Centerville.
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Politics
Derision Points
To the list of things that Rick Perry shows contempt for — Barack Obama’s leadership abilities, excessive federal regulation, coyotes that interrupt his morning jog — add this surprising one: George W. Bush’s ideological disposition. The governor seems to go out of his way to criticize his predecessor as insufficiently conservative. Bush, for his part, makes no mention of Perry in his memoir. “There’s certainly no love lost between these two men,” says UT presidential scholar Bruce Buchanan.
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State Government
Michael Quinn Sullivan: The TT Interview
The bomb-throwing president of Empower Texas and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility on why Joe Straus hasn’t proved himself as a conservative, why the entry of outside groups like his own into the insiders’ race for speaker is proper and what he’d like to see out of a Texas House with 99 GOP members in it.
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Health care
TribBlog: Report Says Healthier Prisons = Healthier Communities
Spending more to improve prison mental and physical health care could improve public health in the free world, according to findings of researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the University of Oxford in England.
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State Government
TribBlog: Abolish the Railroad Commission?
The Sunset Advisory Commission’s staff report on the Railroad Commission, released today, recommends getting rid of the agency and replacing it with a similar entity headed by five part-time gubernatorial appointees.
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Congress
TribBlog: Gene Green Keeps Quiet on Pelosi Vote
After watching his party lose 61 seats in the recent midterm elections, did U.S. Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, vote to stay the course or to give the boot to current Democratic House leadership? The world may never know.
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State Government
Michael Quinn Sullivan Speaks
The conservative leader speaks out on his role in the race for Texas House speaker and why current GOP Speaker Joe Straus has a “high bar” to meet to get re-elected.
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State Government
TribBlog: Assessing the TCEQ
The long-awaited Sunset Advisory Commission staff report on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is out — and it ducks some of the most controversial questions surrounding the agency.
