Team Rick Perry’s media availability outside Bill White’s Austin headquarters felt more like a pep rally than a press conference.
HuTube: Chicken Suits Never Get Old
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Texas Red-Light Cameras
Explore Texas red-light camera intersections statewide or drill down to individual intersections to see images, crash figures and citation totals.
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The Press Conference Crashers
In our latest HuTube vlog post, we venture to a Team Perry press conference at Bill White’s Austin headquarters. White’s volunteers must have had some advance notice. They came armed with signs, chants — and a guy in a chicken suit — to shout over the governor’s spokesman.
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The Brief: June 15, 2010
News outlets across the state are likely to be trumpeting a certain Frankenstein refrain this morning. It’s, yes, alive — the Big 12 Conference, that is.
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Let’s Stay Together
Can the Republican establishment in Texas and the various Tea Party groups find enough common ground to keep the state GOP from splintering? Mississippi governor Haley Barbour told convention delegates this weekend that they have no choice. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune.
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Health care
Forced to Fight, Continued
Texas officials have halted the placement of foster care children at Daystar and have assigned the Houston-area residential treatment center a state monitor following revelations of a staff-instigated “fight club” incident two years ago and a new incident that has come to light this past week: a possible sexual assault of a girl living at the facility.
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Health care
No More Valley Carve-Out?
When Texas expanded its Medicaid managed care program in 2003 to cover more than urban centers, the Rio Grande Valley narrowly avoided being included. But as state leaders stare down a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall, they say it’s unlikely the Valley will make it through another session without being roped in.
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Demographics
Farewell to “Keko”
Sounds and photos from the funeral of Sergio Adrían Hernández Güereca, 15, in Ciudad Juárez. Güereca was shot and killed on June 7 by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande near downtown El Paso.
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TribBlog: Voter ID Fight Ramping Up Again?
The issue that nearly derailed the 2009 session could be back in 2011, according to the chairman of the House Elections Committee.
