Where are their friends? Bill White wants Rick Perry to reject the State Board of Education’s social studies amendments, while a state senator pushes to do away with the board altogether.
Griffin Perry
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Health care
The Price of Reform
Behind the fiery health care rhetoric is a measure expected to dramatically expand Texas’ Medicaid program, adding up to 1 million adults to the state’s insurance roll — but at a steep cost. Texas will have to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue to foot its share of the bill.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: Pardons Board Rejects Skinner Request
The seven-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles today unanimously rejected death-row inmate Hank Skinner’s request for a reprieve from his execution, which is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Demographics
Spillover Politics
Leaders from one end of the Texas-Mexico border to the other want Gov. Rick Perry to tone down the scary rhetoric and get real about solving problems in their hometowns. And, by the way, they would like to be consulted about security plans that affect their communities. “We know what’s going on on the border,” says Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas. “Our needs were not taken into consideration.”
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Demographics
TribBlog: The Drone! The Drone! (Maybe)
The federal government seems to be warming to Gov. Rick Perry’s demands for an unmanned drone on the Texas-Mexico border.
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2010: White Releases 2009 Tax Return
Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign team has been asking for Democrat Bill White’s tax returns. They’ve got them — or at least one of them.
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Health care
TribBlog: State Leaders To Congress: Vote Against Health Reform
Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus sent a firmly-worded letter to members of Congress today, urging them to vote against health care reform in Washington, or, as they dub it, “the federal government’s takeover of health care.” A vote is expected on Sunday.
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Criminal Justice
The Secret Pardon
Barring the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is Hank Skinner’s last hope for reprieve from the poison-filled syringe he is set to meet on Wednesday. The board makes life-or-death decisions, recommending to the governor whether an execution should be delayed, called off or carried out, yet it’s one of the least transparent agencies in state government.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Border Politics, Now from White
I suppose if you’re a Texas politician this week you just have to make hay out of the situation on the border. Today, it was Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White’s turn.
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Demographics
TribBlog: Perry Sends Choppers to the Border
Revealing more details about the first phase of the border spillover prevention plan that he activated Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry today announced he is sending two helicopters to the Texas-Mexico border, an OH-58 Kiowa and a UH-72 Lakota. The exact locations of the choppers, however, will not be released for security purposes.
