Video: A Conversation with Dawn Buckingham
Full video of my 4/21 conversation with Dawn Buckingham, a candidate in the Republican runoff in Senate District 24. Full Story
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State Workers Want Pensions to Catch Up
Thousands of retired Texas state workers are essentially stuck in 2001. Though health care, food and pretty much everything else keep getting more expensive, their monthly pension checks haven’t budged. Full Story
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Lawmakers Hear Litany of Foster Care Woes
The state’s child welfare agency faces a $40 million budget shortfall, a critical shortage of good homes for foster children and overwhelming caseloads for staff, agency leaders told state lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday. Full Story
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Analysis: Sid Miller's Lonely Political Rodeo
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's itch for public attention earned him his latest headline, aided by his overdeveloped political reflex for deflecting blame. But the attention comes at an inopportune time. Full Story
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Texas Asks Feds for Short-Term Medicaid Funds
State health officials confirmed Tuesday they have asked the Obama administration to keep a 15-month lifeline of federal Medicaid money flowing into Texas to help hospitals treat uninsured patients. Full Story
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UnitedHealthcare Drops Obamacare Plans in Texas
UnitedHealthcare, a major health insurer, will no longer sell insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace in Texas next year, according to a letter filed with state regulators. Full Story
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New Gas Pump Stickers Highlight Sid Miller, Ding Lawmakers
A new sticker for the state's gas pumps comes with a few additional flourishes: Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's name emblazoned across the top and a disclaimer blaming gas taxes on Congress and the Texas Legislature. Full Story
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Analysis: Legal Matters Could Temporarily Expand Abbott’s Power
Texas doesn’t have a cabinet form of government, but in Gov. Greg Abbott’s case, it might soon have the next best thing. Full Story
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Roundup: New Challenges for Ken Paxton, Sid Miller
In the Roundup: The state’s attorney general faces new securities fraud charges, the Texas agriculture commissioner is the subject of an investigation over a pair of state-paid trips and the governor works to reform an embattled child welfare agency. Full Story
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Video: A Conversation with Nevárez and Uresti
Full video of our 4/13 conversation at Sul Ross State University in Alpine with state Rep. Poncho Nevárez, D-Eagle Pass, and state Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio. Full Story
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Analysis: The Difficult Intersection of Tragedy and Public Policy
Anyone trying to influence public policy will move where the public’s attention takes them, into the edges of the spotlight around events that might make their arguments for them. Full Story
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Governor Says Allegations Against Miller Warrant Probe
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott believes a complaint that Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller misused state funds when he took two out-of-state trips a year ago should be investigated, a spokesman for the governor said on Thursday. Full Story
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New Prison Rule Means Jailbirds Can't Tweet
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has decided that prison inmates should not be allowed to have active social media accounts, even if friends or family on the outside run them. Full Story
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Texas Seeks Court Permission to Cut Therapy Budget
Texas should be allowed to move forward with cutting payments to therapy providers who serve children with disabilities, a lawyer for the state argued in appeals court Wednesday. Full Story
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Under New Campus Carry Rules, Texas A&M to Permit Handguns in Classrooms, Dorms
Texas A&M University's proposed new campus carry rules include few major restrictions for handguns and will allow the weapons in classrooms and dormitories. Full Story
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Budget Cuts for Therapy Won't Harm Kids, Judge Told
In-home therapy providers say they would be put out of business by deep budget cuts to a program for children with disabilities, but the chorus of voices disputing those claims grew a little louder on Tuesday. Full Story
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Analysis: It Was a Tough Day for the Class of 2014 in Texas Politics
Some of the state officeholders elected in 2014 face struggles to gain control of their government, political and legal duties. They're looking like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, or the 1962 Mets. But the stakes are more serious than that. Full Story
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Hutchison, Fenves Decry Dwindling State Support for Higher Education
Before meeting with state and higher ed leaders, UT-Austin President Greg Fenves and former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Monday that universities, state governments and the private sector need to take action to preserve public colleges' strengths. Full Story
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Abbott Names New Leaders at Embattled Child Welfare Agency
At a time of heightened public scrutiny of Texas’ embattled child welfare agency, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday appointed new leadership of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. Full Story
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Caseworkers, Kids Trapped in Collapsing Foster System
The Texas foster care system has been throwing off increasingly desperate distress signals for months. It falls to caseworkers like 27-year-old Daniel Hernandez to try to keep it working. Full Story
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