The author of Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness on the criminalization of mental illness, the need for community-wide solutions and how Texas wastes the money it spends on the problem.
Pete Earley: The TT Interview
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Public Education
SBOE Will Vote on Sects Education
The State Board of Education is getting set to vote later this week on a resolution that would call on textbook publishers to avoid a “pro-Islamic, anti-Christian bias” in Texas textbooks. As Nathan Bernier of KUT News reports, the matter may be more about symbolism than practical change.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Los Libertarios
Libertarians launch a new political action committee, Texas Libertarios, to show Latinos they have more choices than just Republicans and Democrats.
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Interactive: Texas Legislation History
This interactive chart visualizes the roughly 90,000 bills and resolutions introduced by members of the Texas House and Texas Senate since 1991. Click through the tabs to see visualizations of legislation that introduced, passed by both chambers or vetoed by governors Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry. The colors in the charts represents the various types of legislation.
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Public Education
TribBlog: Oprah Gives $1M to Houston Charter
Oprah Winfrey will give the YES Prep charter school network $1 million today. She will present the gift on this afternoon’s epsiode of her show, which explores the documentary film Waiting for Superman, according to a YES Prep press release.
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Higher Education
TribBlog: Why UT Wasn’t Ranked Among the World’s Best
On Friday, Times Higher Education, a British magazine, released its 2010 rankings of the top 200 universities in the world. Rice University, ranked 49th, began touting the fact that it is “the only university in Texas” to make the cut. So where were the others?
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The Brief: Sept. 20, 2010
The state’s finances aren’t looking so hot, you might have heard.
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State Government
The Fire Next Time
Under the leadership of Williamson County DA John Bradley, the Texas Forensic Science Commission has waged a masterful war of attrition in the Cameron Todd Willingham case: Stall long enough, and public interest in the internationally controversial capital punishment case — along with political liability for any missteps — will fade away. But the commission’s latest delay, while pushing the resolution of the Willingham investigation securely after the general election, comes against Bradley’s wishes and could represent a sea change on the board that until now has resisted making any broader inquiries into the state’s arson convictions.
