As the dust settled Tuesday, details of the college football kerfuffle-that-wasn’t became a little clearer.
The Brief: June 16, 2010
Posted inState Government
Waiting to Exhale
The Environmental Protection Agency will roll out new air quality standards for the entire country in August. That means cities like Austin — which knows it’s out of compliance — have very little time to get their improvement plans in place. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune filed this report.
Posted inState Government
Steve Munisteri: The TT Interview
The state GOP’s new chair talked to the Tribune on Tuesday about the party’s fiscal condition, redistricting, fundraising across partisan aisles, how to unify with the Tea Party and the status of his relationship with his dethroned predecessor, Cathie Adams.
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Demographics
The New ICE Age
The federal government could begin cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers, according to a copy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s new strategic plan obtained by The Texas Tribune.
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Criminal Justice
Data App: Texas Population Estimates
Texas now has about 24.8 million residents, an increase of 3.9 million, or almost 20 percent, since 2000, and trails only California in the proportion of its residents who identify themselves as Hispanic. We’re also the third-youngest state, with a median age of 33; only Utah and Alabama have younger populations. These and other fun facts can be discovered in a new database application that helps explain and visualize how the makeup of Texas counties has changed since the last U.S. Census.
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Energy
TribBlog: New EPA Rules Could Put More Cities Over Pollution Limits
The ongoing battle between the EPA and Texas got a little hotter today, and it could get even more intense as the TCEQ works on a plan to comply with stricter ozone regulations.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Check Your Facts, Border Coalition Tells Iowa Rep.
The Texas Border Coalition to U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa: “We merely suggest you become familiar with the facts next time, before shooting off your mouth.”
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Health care
TribBlog: Renaissance Talks Valley Carve-Out
In a hearing before House budget-writers today, officials of Doctors Hospital at Renaissance conceded they’ll move toward Medicaid managed care in the Rio Grande Valley, so long as it’s done with lots of local input.
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Higher Education
TribBlog: “The Conference Formerly Known as the Big 12”
Now that the central question of tomorrow’s House Higher Ed Committee meeting on athletic conference realignments has been answered, Chairman Dan Branch says there’s no need for the show to go on.
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Search: County Population Estimates
The U.S. Census Bureau’s latest county population estimates show that Texas is getting more racially and ethnically diverse. Texas minority population now exceeds 50 percent, as it does Hawaii, New Mexico, California and the District of Columbia. These are the last county estimates to use 2000 Census results as a base. The 2011 population estimates will be the first in the estimates series to be based on the 2010 Census population counts.
