Uber and Lyft are now offering their tech-savvy transportation services in Austin, Corpus Christi, Houston, San Antonio and the Dallas area. But statements from officials in those cities say the company’s drivers are technically violating local laws.
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Health care
Amid Recommendations, an Uncertain Future at Institutions for Disabled
A recommendation from the state’s Sunset Advisory Commission to shutter six of Texas’ 13 state-supported living centers has reopened a giant divide in the disability community that had seemed to narrow in recent years.
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Higher Education
Analysis: Clout is Only Clout if It Can Be Used
Questions about insiders getting students into top state universities raises a question about power: Would it be more surprising if they had the clout to get people into school, or if they didn’t?
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State Government
Dewhurst and Straus Prepare for Session Only One Will Attend
The day after the elections, both the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the House were talking about getting ready for the legislative session in January. But Joe Straus will be there, and David Dewhurst won’t.
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Politics
Analysis: A Speaker Who May Have Less of a Say
House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, enters the next legislative session as a clear favorite for re-election, but the issues raised in the conservative wave in this year’s elections could dominate the Legislature’s calendar.
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Politics
Video: Cruz on Benghazi, Jobs and His Trip to Ukraine
At a news conference Friday in Austin, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz touched on the state’s bitter Republican primary runoffs, the Benghazi investigation, his argument against a minimum wage hike and Gov. Rick Perry’s efforts to tout the Texas miracle around the country.
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Higher Education
Analysis: Impeachment Could Give Hall a Stage
University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall is under fire for bullying records out of UT’s flagship in Austin, and might get impeached for it. That could give him a stage to produce the fruits of his search.
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Newsreel: Regent Impeachment, Ad Wars, Murky Water
This week in Newsreel: House panel finds grounds to impeach Wallace Hall, nasty campaign ads and Houston water has a hint of Dallas.
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Energy
Deal Sets Plan for Texas’ Largest Single Solar Facility
Recurrent Energy has signed a 20-year deal with Austin Energy to build a 150-megawatt solar farm in West Texas that would help power Austin. Expected to be completed in 2016, the facility would be the largest single solar site in the state.
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Newsreel: Attack Ads, BLM Issue, EPA
This week in the Newsreel: Lite guv candidates ramp up their attack ads, a Texas-Oklahoma border dispute pits landowners against one another and the BLM, and SCOTUS knocks down a challenge to an EPA rule on cross-state pollution.
