Lawmakers and health care advocates gathered today to kick off the state’s first annual Minority Cancer Awareness Month, designated in the last legislative session to bring awareness to racial disparities in cancer survival.
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Guest Column: How Conservative is David Dewhurst?
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst appears to be in the middle of the Republican pack in the Texas Senate, where he presides, according to an analysis of senators’ votes by Rice University political scientist Mark P. Jones.
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Ken Anderson Court of Inquiry Set to Begin Sept. 11
The court of inquiry that will investigate whether former prosecutor Ken Anderson committed criminal prosecutorial misconduct in Michael Morton’s 1987 trial will get under way in September.
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Morton Talks About Ordeal, Life After Prison
“Life is really, really good,” said Michael Morton, who was exonerated in the 1986 murder of his wife. He tells the Tribune of his ordeal and his newfound freedom.
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“Accountability Works,” Morton Tells “60 Minutes”
On Sunday’s edition of 60 Minutes, Texas exoneree Michael Morton told Lara Logan that it’s not revenge he’s after — it’s accountability.
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First Ad from Ames Jones: Jobs
In her first TV commercials — running during college basketball games this weekend and then in broader rotation in Austin and San Antonio starting next week — Texas Senate candidate Elizabeth Ames Jones says she’ll create jobs and fight “Obama bureaucrats.”
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“60 Minutes” to Feature Michael Morton on Sunday
Texas DNA exoneree Michael Morton, who spent 25 years wrongfully incarcerated for his wife’s murder, will be the subject of the CBS news program 60 Minutes on Sunday.
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Apple May Have 35 Million Reasons to Branch Out in Austin
Apple Inc., which has reported having $100 billion in cash on hand, could get up to $35.5 million in various state and local incentives if it expands its operations in Austin.
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Senate Committee Tackles Rural Child Welfare
Child Protective Services officials got an earful on Wednesday at a Senate hearing on improving the caseworker retention rates in rural communities. And they got a minor scolding from Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville.
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Districts Take Advantage of STAAR Rule Change
School districts are taking advantage of the Texas Education Agency’s decision to waive the requirement that STAAR exams count for 15 percent of students’ grades for the 2011-12 school year.
