Abortion politics is back on center stage, with Gov. Rick Perry putting it, voter photo ID, state support for a balanced federal budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, eminent domain and a ban on sanctuary cities at the top of his list of priorities. Why?
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Health Reform Roulette
Even as Texas pursues a lawsuit attacking federal health care reform, some state officials are reluctantly laying the groundwork to implement parts of the law.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Grissom on what happens — and doesn’t — when police don’t analyze evidence taken from rape victims, Dehn with video highlights of the Senate debate over photo voter ID, Aguilar on the more than three dozen immigration-related bills waiting for attention in the Legislature, M. Smith on what to do with empty school buildings, Ramshaw on what will happen to hospitals if Medicaid managed care is expanded, C. Smith on how the state’s budget cuts could affect churches and other faith-based organizations, Philpott’s report for the Trib and KUT News on how the tight state budget could affect mental health care, yours truly on why the initial budget proposal isn’t really a plan for state spending, Stiles with a searchable database of the latest campaign finance reports, and Galbraith on the rising use of coal and wind to generate electricity in Texas: The best of our best from January 24 to 28, 2011.
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TribBlog: How Deep Do Medicaid Cuts Go?
Lawmakers have proposed cutting Medicaid provider rates 10 percent to help meet the state’s budget crisis. But health care groups suggest the cuts are far deeper.
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John Zerwas: The TT Interview
The state representative and anesthesiologist from Simonton on why he filed the House’s first bill to implement a key piece of federal health-care reform and was the first in his party to openly suggest that dropping out of Medicaid wasn’t such a great idea after all.
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TribBlog: Disability Rights Advocates Sue Perry
Disability rights advocates filed a class-action lawsuit today claiming that six Texas officials, including Gov. Rick Perry, violated the rights of more than 4,200 residents in state-supported living centers.
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Keeping the Faith
Like many other Texas groups, faith organizations that lobby lawmakers are bracing for a brutal budgetary session. It’s not only a moral issue for the religious groups; it concerns their own bottom lines, too. Because when the government doesn’t provide for the needy, the needy look to the church.
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Gil Kerlikowske: The TT Interview
The Obama administration’s “drug czar” on the federal drug control strategy, curbing drug addiction in the United States, helping to end drug-related violence in Mexico — and why legalizing illicit drugs is not the answer.
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John Zerwas: The TT Interview
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Managed Into the Red?
Texas hospital administrators aren’t thrilled about the 10 percent Medicaid provider rate cut included in the House’s proposed budget. But what they fear more is the proposed expansion of Medicaid managed care, which could force them to forgo a combined $1 billion a year in federal funding.