A group of people who typically prefer to stay out of the limelight gathered this morning to urge lawmakers to support the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act.
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Higher Education
TribBlog: Republican Party to Launch Campus Paper
There’s a new student paper coming to university campuses in Texas — courtesy of the Republican Party of Texas.
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State Government
TribBlog: Wind Claims
If the Larry Taylor-Steve Mostyn battle over windstorm insurance payouts wasn’t a proxy war for the tort reformists and the trial lawyers before, it certainly is now.
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Economy
Much Less Stimulated
The Legislative Budget Board says the state used about $14 billion in federal stimulus money to balance to budget in the current biennium. Lawmakers warned state agencies that those dollars were to be used for one-time expenditures only, but not all agencies followed that advice. With the next biennium’s shortfall projected to be as much as $21 billion and no new fed-stim money available, what to do? Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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Criminal Justice
Pete Earley: The TT Interview
The author of Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness on the criminalization of mental illness, the need for community-wide solutions and how Texas wastes the money it spends on the problem.
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Higher Education
TribBlog: Why UT Wasn’t Ranked Among the World’s Best
On Friday, Times Higher Education, a British magazine, released its 2010 rankings of the top 200 universities in the world. Rice University, ranked 49th, began touting the fact that it is “the only university in Texas” to make the cut. So where were the others?
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TribBlog: The Shrinking Debt of the RPT
Republican state representatives and House candidates have pledged $200,000 to the Republican Party of Texas in the last week.
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Demographics
A Conversation With Debbie Riddle
For the 12th event in our TribLive series, I interviewed the GOP state representative from Tomball about what she really said on CNN, whether “tourism” babies are a threat to national security, why an Arizona-style immigration law would be right for Texas and whether she’ll back Joe Straus for speaker.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: AG’s Latest Environmental Lawsuits
Texas has fired off another volley of legal challenges against federal environmental regulators.
