At Thursday’s State Board of Education meeting, as conservatives had their way with social studies standards, voting to limit the discussion of race and gender issues and to challenge the notion of separation of church and state, Democratic members were left to sulk and seethe — and walk out.
“We’re Outnumbered”
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Farming Under Fire: The Texas Guard in Afghanistan
KUT Radio’s report on an attack on the Texas Guard’s farming operation in Afghanistan — from which it was hard to recover.
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Health care
Disease Mismanagement?
Texas has spent tens of millions of dollars on “disease management” — phone calls and check-ins with Medicaid patients designed to control costly chronic illnesses and save money. The jury’s still out on whether it worked, but the state’s preparing to rebid the contract anyway.
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Public Education
TribBlog: SBOE Rejects Church-State Wall (Updated)
America never barred “the government from promoting or disfavoring any particular religion above all others,” according to board conservatives.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Border Leaders on Drone Bandwagon
A group of elected officials and business leaders from the Texas-Mexico border today joined Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in calls for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deploy unmanned aerial surveillance drones to monitor the border.
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The Brief: March 11, 2010
A song for the State Board of Education: We’ve only just begun…
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Try, Try Again
Farmer-soldiers from the Texas National Guard Agribusiness Development Team, working in Afghanistan, find out that what looks good in satellite imagery doesn’t always work out on the ground. KUT Radio’s series on the Guard in Afghanistan continues with this third installment of four.
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Energy
The Big Whoop
Whooping cranes, the Endangered Species Act and property rights clash on the Texas Coast.
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Demographics
“The Texas of Today is the U.S. of Tomorrow”
That’s what former state demographer Steve Murdock says about the dramatic population shifts happening throughout the state and the country — and why they matter.
