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- Texas House Passes House Bill 1, The State Budget – The Right Side of Austin
A blogger shows that it is possible to write about the news without injecting personal opinion. - Latinos, the Census and Assimilation – Ruben Navarette, Pasadena Star-News
Texas has done this better than most. - Texas’ Clout in Congress Rises Along With GOP – Matt Stiles, Texas Tribune
- Brewpubs lobbying to sell their suds at stores – Laylan Copelin, Austin American-Statesman
Will Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas’s opposition be enough to kill sensible, consumer friendly, market friendly legislation? Probably.
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- UT uproar's roots are in '08 summit – Ralph Haurwitz, Austin American-Statesman
The governor added: “One of the things from my perspective here of all of this discussion has been that somehow or another research is not important. Man, I don’t know where that’s coming from.
An entrenched university research establishment that likes the status quo and a media corps that doesn’t like Rick Perry or his agenda? Few people understand the extent to which research universities pass off undergraduate teaching to grad students barely older than their students (and that education doesn’t come at a discount — to the contrary!). Of course the university research establishment doesn’t want to discuss.
- Perry's vision for colleges has professors seeing red – Patricia Kilday Hart, Houston Chronicle
Actually, professors seem to be seeing red over the fact that those elected to watch over the public treasury might dare to start a conversation about whether the higher education establishment is serving Texans — especially taxpayers and undergraduate students — as well as it might. - A note for the record from the House's roads scholars – Robert Garrett, Dallas Morning News
- State workers, retirees likely to see surge in health insurance costs – Ben Wermund, Austin American-Statesman
Steep increases in state employees’ and retirees’ health insurance costs likely to emerge this legislative session could put health care out of reach for some families, according to advocates for state workers.
What did he expect them to say? That was the lede, by the way.
- Businesses want the state spending, but how do they want to pay for it? – R.G. Ratcliffe, BurkaBlog
Instructive: Ratcliffe concludes with almost wistful reflections on former Gov. Bill Clements “do[ing] what was right” by breaking an anti-tax campaign pledge and raising taxes by 5.7 billion dollars in 1987. - Burden of budget cuts worries Texas' poor – Renee C. Lee, Houston Chronicle
How many times can the state’s political media rewrite the same story? - SMU student resigns chairmanship of Texas College Republicans in wake of videotaped comments on ‘hooking up’ – Jessica Huseman, Dallas Morning News
- City pays Medina supporter $40,000 to settle suit – Aman Batheja, PoliTex
- Combs may need to copy her heroine – Patricia Kilday Hart, Houston Chronicle
- More than a river in Egypt – Harris County Almanac
- Dems Opt Out Of Constructive Participation In Texas Budget Process – Rhymes with Right