Kay stays, census or bust, “no” to the AG and another battle in the badlands.
The Brief: April 1, 2010
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Resign of the Times
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison finally ended the will-she-or-won’t-she drama, saying she’s staying put through the end of her term in 2012. But ever since she first announced she’d resign, she’s been shifting positions. We take a look back.
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Politics
Kay in 2012?!?
She said she would limit her time in the U.S. Senate to two terms and is currently serving a third. She said she would resign her federal office to run for governor and didn’t. She said she would quit after the primary and hasn’t. So who’s to say she won’t reconsider in two years and run for a fourth term? And what of all those would-be successors?
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Making History
Wednesday was the birthday of the late Mexican-American civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. Hispanic state legislators in Texas marked the occasion by launching a new challenge to the State Board of Education’s social studies curriculum adoption process. Nathan Bernier of KUT News reports.
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Health care
The $27 Billion Question
The debate over how much federal health care reform will cost Texas put the state’s health and human services chief on the defensive on Wednesday, as he presented a budget estimate that is 20 times higher than federal projections.
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The Weekly TribCast: Episode 22
In this week’s TribCast, Tribune reporters consider U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s decision to stay, health care costs to Texas, press coverage of Perry vs. White and that gay Jesus controversy at Tartleton State.
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Demographics
TribBlog: A Redistricting Compromise?
Republican and Democratic members of the Texas congressional delegation are discussing a possible compromise designed to cool off the overheated politics of congressional redistricting by dividing the expected spoils once U.S. Census figures are in and the reapportionment process begins in 2011, two members of the delegation say.
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Demographics
TribBlog: First Responders
Census Day isn’t until tomorrow, but residents in some Texas cities and counties got a significant head start, according to the latest questionnaire response rates.
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Health care
HHSC Chief Testifies on Health Care Costs
Is the health reform price tag in Texas $1.4 billion… or more like $24 billion? State Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, asks HHSC Commissioner Tom Suehs to explain why his agency’s estimate is so much higher than a federal estimate.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Bad News for Texas Immigrants
A midterm Congressional report released today by the National Latino Congreso asserts Texas’ U.S. House delegation votes against progressive immigration reform proposals 63 percent of the time.
