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- How Three Texas Counties Created Personal Social Security Accounts and Prospered – Merrill Matthews, Forbes
- Locals on hook for Obama visit – Ben Wear and Tony Plohetski, Austin American-Statesman
Unsurprising, since the purpose of the trip was to withdraw money from the ATM. - Some fear politics – Patricia Kilday Hart, Houston Chronicle
Hart has a point of view on what is supposedly a straight-news story: reform is bad; the status quo is good. Her story alternatively could have reported on the difficulty of reforming improperly-incentivized bureaucratic institutions that will fight to protect their turf. Or it could have tried to balance the two. This story presented one side entirely, as has happened far too often in the reporting on higher education. - State senators criticize salary bump UTexas basketball coach – Jim Vertuno, AP
While we have the antiquated, unjust minor-league collegiate athletic system that we have…this will be the result. Politicians who criticize Barnes’ deal are just simply faux populists, who see the opportunity to score cheap political points by criticizing others unjustly. The list on this issue includes Odgen, Wentworth, Zaffirini, and Watson.
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- Senate Finance Spends Irresponsibly – Michael Quinn Sullivan, Empower Texans
- Pitts: Fiscal bills put off until next week – Chuck Lindell, Postcards
- Texas House reverses course, passes weakened version of paddling bill – Dave Montgomery, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- House Finally Kills Class Size Bill (HB 400) – Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune
- Dispute may derail arrival of high-speed trains in D-FW – Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Rail plans are almost never actually about transportation. They are about whether we want to live as we do today or whether we want to live in dense, Euro-type cities with much smaller living spaces. - Sanchez files in Texas – David Catanese, Politico
- Texas’ Wild Tea Party – Bob Moser, The Nation
It’s a sure sign Texas is doing more than a few things right when a screed like this appears in the Nation. - Who is Exploiting Women's Health for Political Purposes? – Williamson County Conservative
- Obama's Immigration Reform Vision: Clouded by Cynicism – Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
Mark Salter reiterates the point we made yesterday. Obama has repeatedly hindered efforts to pass immigration reform, but he loves to use immigrants to demonize the opposition. Hope and Change. - Watson proposes new Austin Senate boundaries – Mike Ward, Statesman
Watson continues the Democratic meme that “the VRA requires mapmakers to give me a district that suits my personal desires.”