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Texas House passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion
ReutersBy Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas, May 21 (Reuters) - The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Texas Governor Rick Perry,...Tags: Barack Obama, Health Care Reform (2009), Medicaid, Government Health Care, Executive Branch
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Headlines for Tuesday, May 21,  2013
RAY MANZAREK: Doors Co-Founder Dead at 74
Ray Manzarek, a founding Member of The Doors, has died at age 74.
The keyboardist, born Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., succumbed this afternoon (Monday) at the RoMed...Tags: Luella, Walmart, Columbia University, Imelda May, Norah Jones
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RGV delegates reach compromise on med school
The Monitor, McAllen, TexasThe Rio Grande Valley's delegation reached a compromise late Thursday on legislation that would create a regional medical school and university, likely ending a dispute over location that threatened to derail the concept. Every House and Senate member...Tags: Brownsville, Colleges and Universities, Eddie Jr Lucio, Executive Branch, Education
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Perry signs Morton Act into law
Austin American-StatesmanGov. Rick Perry signed the Michael Morton Act into law Thursday, praising the bipartisan legislation -- passed unanimously in both houses -- for "making our system more fair and helping prevent wrongful convictions." "We are known as a law and order...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Rodney Ellis, Robert B. Duncan, Prosecution
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Tech system regents to meet
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, TexasThe Texas Tech System Board of Regents will meet today, May 16, and Friday, May 17, at the Tech Health Sciences Center. This will be the first Lubbock meeting for newly appointed regents John D. Esparza of Austin and Tim Lancaster of Abilene. The...Tags: Social Sciences, Colleges and Universities, Education, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Texas House kills local review of public-private projects
Austin American-StatesmanThe Texas House has killed a provision, at the urging of Gov. Rick Perry, that would have required public-private development projects on state land to go through local zoning. State Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, said he stripped out the provision...Tags: Elections, National Government, Terry Keel, University of Texas at Austin, Executive Branch
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EDITORIAL: Allow local zoning rules to be applied to state projects
Austin American-StatesmanLooking toward the Governor's Mansion for their lead, members of the Texas House last week killed a worthy provision that would have applied local zoning rules to public-private development projects on state land. The provision echoed the requirements...Tags: Terry Keel, Executive Branch, Public Officials, Government, Politics
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EDITORIAL: Never ending UT power struggle drama continues
Austin American-StatesmanThe ongoing struggle for control of the University of Texas at Austin can play either as serious drama or farce, but whatever the interpretation, it's going to get really good now. A bill limiting the power of appointees to boards of regents of the...Tags: Elections, Colleges and Universities, Ronald Reagan, University of Texas at Austin, Executive Branch
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EDITORIAL: Open government gest another test in Texas House
Fort Worth Star-TelegramIssues of transparency and ethics in government and political campaigns have received mixed reaction from the Texas Legislature this year, but they'll come up again Monday when the House considers an omnibus ethics bill. It should make for some...Tags: Ethics, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Values, Government
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Negotiations built last-minute compromise on med school
The Monitor, McAllen, TexasStanding together as an entire delegation, the Rio Grande Valley's House members pushed through a compromise Friday that would finally establish the region's long sought medical school and a super university. The House voted unanimously to adopt a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Brownsville, Eddie Jr Lucio, Petroleum Industry, Health and Safety at School
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Ka-ching: Rick Perry's plan for Texa$ universities
There are three things Rick Perry would like to do to the great public universities of Texas, but he can only remember two of them. That’s a joke. You may remember that during a 2012 presidential debate, he started to list three departments of...
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