In the Information Age, it still takes the major political parties in Texas three weeks to figure out who should be listed on their state ballots.
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Criminal Justice
Case Open: The Investigation
It took a crew of eight Northwestern University students to bring national attention to questions about Hank Skinner’s death sentence. But his legal pleas for more DNA testing of crime scene evidence — and his lawsuit against the Gray County district attorney — have gone nowhere. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, he’ll be executed on Feburary 24.
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Criminal Justice
Hank Skinner interview
I interviewed Henry “Hank” Watkins Skinner, 47, at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — death row — on January 20, 2010. Skinner was convicted in 1995 of murdering his girlfriends and her two sons; the state has scheduled his execution for February 24. Skinner has always maintained that he’s innocent and for 15 year has asked the state to release DNA evidence that he says will prove he was not the killer.
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Health care
Paperless Medicine: Training the eWorkforce
If doctors in Texas are going to start using electronic medical records, somebody has to teach them how to do it. The state’s universities are gearing up to teach the teachers.
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2010: Dems to Debate
Democrats Bill White and Farouk Shami will face off before a live audience in a televised debate.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Family Values in Jail
Local elected officials and civil rights groups urged legislators at a committee hearing today to implement more programs for women and girls in Texas prisons and jails.
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The Brief: January 28, 2010
For our Texas retrospective of the State of the Union, let’s start from the top of the political food chain and work our way down.
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Health care
Paperless Medicine?
Three challenges stand between Texas and the era of electronic medical records: convincing doctors to use them, figuing out how to safely share and protect them and finding a way to pay for them.
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The Big Haggle
Lawmakers have begun the long process of reviewing the state’s rules on arbitration — in particular, the way it’s used in complaints between homebuilders and owners. Ben Philpott, who covers politics and policy for KUT News and the Tribune, filed this report.
