Democrats Bill White and Farouk Shami will face off before a live audience in a televised debate.
2010: Dems to 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.
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Criminal Justice
Case Open
Hank Skinner is set to be executed for a 1993 murder he’s always maintained he didn’t commit. He wants the state to test whether his DNA matches evidence found at the scene, but prosecutors say the time to contest his conviction has come and gone. He has less than a month to change their minds.
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett on SOTU
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, responds to the State of the Union address.
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Health care
Barack and a Hard Place
Two very different Texans in the U.S. House of Representatives — Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and John Carter, R-Round Rock — respond to the president’s State of the Union address.
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Rep. John Carter on SOTU
U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, responds to the State of the Union address.
