Texas’ chain of inland checkpoints has created a border within a border, separating abused and sometimes undocumented children in counties adjacent to Mexico from services north of the invisible line.
State Government
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Justin’s Story
His name is Justin. He’s a heroin addict. He’s been sober for 42 days. And he’s 16.
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2010: White sits tight
Bill White is still running for the U.S. Senate, according to aides and to White himself, in response to a flurry of weekend rumors that he’s switching to the race for governor.
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State Government
2010: El Paso County Attorney announces Senate candidacy
Today in El Paso, County Attorney Jose Rodriguez announced he is running for the state Senate seat that Democrat Eliot Shapleigh is giving up.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Houston, We Have a Partner
This afternoon, the Chronicle reprinted a Tribune story, in its entirety, online — and the world did not end.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Ask and Ye Shall RSSeive.
One of the persistent comments we heard after going live last Tuesday was: Why can’t you provide an RSS feed for your original news stream, and, more broadly, why isn’t the site set up in a way that enables the RSS habits and preferences of your users? Done and done.
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State Government
2010: Rodriguez Senate announcement Sunday
El Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez is expected to announce tomorrow at an El Paso press conference that he will run for the Texas Senate seat that state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh is vacating.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw’s multi-parter on restraints in schools, Thevenot’s reading on the future of textbooks, Ramsey’s take on a Democratic defection, Rapoport’s profile of self-described “religious fanatic” Don McLeroy, and Henson and Shaw’s thoroughly noncontroversial poll on the governor’s race (kidding!): The best of the best from November 3 to November 6, 2009.
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Criminal Justice
Case Open
If you’re waiting for closure on questions of Cameron Todd Willingham’s guilt or innocence, get comfortable. The Texas Forensic Science Commission’s new chair tells the Tribune that he doesn’t yet have the rules or resources to investigate whether faulty science led to the Corsicana man’s conviction and execution.
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Audio: John Bradley discusses the forensic science commission
Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, the new chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, says the board doesn’t yet have the rules, staff or resources to be investigating allegations of faulty science in criminal cases — including a high profile arson-murder case that led to a Corsicana man’s execution.