Shopping for a new athletic conference? Make sure the political alignment matches up with the school alignment.
Joe Straus
Posted in
State Government
The Brief: June 7, 2010
Forecasters pegging a looming state budget shortfall at $18 billion don’t have Gov. Rick Perry particularly worried.
Posted inState Government
Drop and Give ‘Em 10
The governor, lieutenant governor and speaker directed all state agencies on Friday to cut their budgets by an additional 10 percent. Last week, those same agencies had their current budgets trimmed by a total of around $1.2 billion in an effort to close a projected $18 billion budget shortfall in the next legislative session. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
Posted in
Economy
TribBlog: The 10 Percent Solution
Fresh off of asking for five percent cuts from state agencies and actually approving $1.2 billion of what was proposed, the state’s top three leaders are asking for ten percent cuts in the amounts the agencies will be seeking next time the Legislature meets.
Posted in
Economy
TribBlog: Gambling 101
Coming soon to a large pink state capitol building in this very state: A day-long seminar on slot machines and casinos and all that, especially as it pertains to the state budget.
Posted in
State Government
Generation Next
Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, may be 50, but he’s only been in the House for three sessions. He’s part of a youth movement in the power corridors of the Legislature — one that’s less about age than lack of seniority.
Posted inState Government
In Too Deep
Lawmakers fishing for ideas on how to deal with a coming budget shortfall are going to need a bigger rod and reel: The newest projections show itl could be as much as $18 billion.
Posted in
Economy
TribBlog: $18 Billion Dollar Budget Hole
Texas lawmakers have been fishing for ideas on how to fill a looming budget deficit when they return to Austin in 2011. Based on new projections out today, they’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Posted inState Government
TribBlog: Coleman on Continental
Amid reports that a merger deal might soon be struck between Houston-based Continental Airlines and United Airlines, with the latter as the surviving company headquartered in Chicago, state Rep. Garnet Coleman discusses Houston’s long-standing relationship with Continental.
Posted in
State Government
TribBlog: New GOP Group “a Little Undemocratic”?
Karen Hughes, a communications advisor to Speaker Joe Straus, told our TribLive audience this morning that it was “a little undemocratic” of the newly formed Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas not to invite every Republican in the House and Senate to join.