Top officials at the University of Texas System said in an interview Wednesday that they are moving quickly to allay the concerns regarding the direction of UT, starting with the reassignment of Rick O’Donnell.
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Health care
Cecile Richards: The TT Interview
The president of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Democratic Gov. Ann Richards on Republican lawmakers’ efforts to defund her organization, a Texas attorney general’s opinion she says will keep low-income women from preventative care, and how her mother would’ve handled all of this.
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Higher Education
Six Degrees of Jeff Sandefer: Reform and Texas Higher Ed
The recent hiring of Rick O’Donnell as a special adviser to the board of regents at the University of Texas System has some observers — worried about the implications for the University of Texas at Austin — playing connect the dots.
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Higher Education
Prominent UT Alumnus Warns of “Degradation” at University
Prominent University of Texas alumnus Gordon Appleman says recent changes at the UT System Board of Regents “seemed important enough to where I ought to do something rather than sit by and watch it happen.”
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Criminal Justice
New Day Rising: The Changing Public Policy Landscape
At the Tribune’s New Day Rising symposium on Feb. 28, four public policy experts talked about criminal justice, education, health care and other issues and the impact of the coming Hispanic majority.
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Health care
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 70
This week’s TribCast features Evan, Reeve, Ben and Emily discussing the holdup with abortion sonogram legislation, cuts to public education, and bickering in higher education.
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Politics
Students Talk Sex at the Capitol
High school and college students from across Texas came to the Capitol today to talk sex ed with lawmakers.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw and Stiles on the tepid growth of Big D during the last decade, Hamilton talks immigration with state Rep. Leo Berman, M. Smith on Texas education’s Race to the Top efforts and more: The best of our best content from Feb. 28 to March 4, 2011.
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Politics
Lawmakers Ratchet Up the Rhetoric
Texas lawmakers, out to protect their interests this session, appear to be ratcheting up their rhetoric. Politics as usual or a serious lapse in civil discourse?
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Health care
Lawmakers Want State, Not Federal, Insurance Connector
State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, is no fan of “Obamacare.” But he told his House colleages this afternoon that if they don’t set up a health insurance exchange — one of the tenets of reform — by 2014, the federal government will do it for them.