Past Contributions

• New Campaign Focuses on Texans in "Coverage Gap"

  By Shelby Sementelli Feb. 7, 2014

  More than 40 statewide organizations working to educate Texans on health plan options available through the Affordable Care Act are embarking on a campaign to mobilize those who have been left in the state’s “coverage gap.” Full Story 

• Advocates Urge Prison Officials to Reconsider Death Row Isolation

  By Shelby Sementelli Jan. 29, 2014

  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is reviewing its Death Row Plan, and inmates' rights advocates, along with the prison employees union, are urging less restrictive housing for the condemned. Full Story 

• Mussels, Lizard, Snake on Comptroller's Research List

  By Shelby Sementelli Jan. 23, 2014

  The Texas comptroller's office will use $5 million appropriated by state legislators to fund university-centered research on three species at risk of being classified as endangered or threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Full Story