Stiles and Thevenot’s searchable database of more than 5,800 public schools, Thevenot on why smaller high schools are better, Garcia-Ditta on the possible unification of Big Bend National Park with Mexico, Grissom on what’s likely to happen on immigration reform this year (nothing), Hamilton on how Admm Bobby Ray Inman is managing a crisis, Hu on the health care reform straw man, Ramsey on the no-shoo-in-for-the-experienced-guy special election in Senate District 22, Philpott on the likely post-Arizona immigration brawls, Ramshaw on the emergence of concierge care as a response to health care reform, Aguilar on how Texas will soon become Cuba’s top U.S. trading partner, Stiles and Babalola’s searchable database of more 160,000 inmates in Texas prisons, M. Smith on the depressing fact that every single U.S. Attorney position in Texas is now vacant, and my on-camera sit-down with Texas Transportation Commission chair Deirdre Delisi. The best of our best from April 26 to 30, 2010.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Counting the Colonias
A joint effort among the U.S. Census Bureau, Valley lawmakers and community groups is smoothing over the tensions of the past couple of weeks, when the bureau announced that 95 percent of residents of South Texas colonias were not getting their Census forms in the mail.
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TribBlog: What Happens in Arizona…
It’s no surprise that Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law is unpopular with Texas Democrats. But it’s hard to find a high-ranking Republican in the state who’ll endorse it, either.
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TribBlog: ATX to Ariz: No Thanks!
In the wake of Arizona’s immigration legislation, the City of Austin will formally consider limiting travel and business with the state.
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TribBlog: Perry Questions Arizona Law
Gov. Rick Perry does not think Texas should adopt a law like the one recently passed in Arizona.
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Sound and Fury
Just as in 2006, some Democrats are clamoring for immigration reforms, including easing pathways to citizenship, while Republicans are insisting more border security must come first. Policy experts, meanwhile, say the outcome this year will likely be the same as back then: nothing.
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HuTube: Border Cameras on TV
A multi-million-dollar plan gone bust? That’s how our television partner in Houston, KHOU-TV, describes the governor’s virtual border watch program, which has cost $4 million but has netted only a handful of arrests.
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TribBlog: First Arizona, Now Texas?
ABC News reports that state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Houston, will introduce a bill in the Texas Legislature similar to the controversial immigration measure passed into law in Arizona.
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TribBlog: Texas Could Lose Out After Census Deadline
Texas could lose out in Washington, D.C. if its current response rate to this year’s census holds steady.
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TribBlog: DHS Says Skies Too Crowded For Drones
Texas’ congested air space is preventing the deployment of unmanned aerial drones to the southern border, according to the Department of Homeland Security.