TribBlog: Growing Number of Physicians Use e-Records
The number of Texas physicians who use electronic medical records has been on the rise for the last four years, according to a Texas Medical Association study. Full Story
The number of Texas physicians who use electronic medical records has been on the rise for the last four years, according to a Texas Medical Association study. Full Story
The primary matchup between perennial opponents state Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston, and former state Rep. Borris Miles is going where most haven't publicly gone before: the urinal. Full Story
"Should be ashamed." Full Story
Beck and Medina, Wilson remembered and the rest of your afternoon reading. Full Story
The GOP gubernatorial candidate tries to get out in front of the Glenn Beck-fueled controversy. Full Story
Glenn Beck thinks Debra Medina's comments on 9/11 just steered her campaign onto the fast-track "back to 4 percent." Full Story
Charlie Wilson dies, sales tax revenues are down and an April runoff still looks likely. Full Story
The U.S. Border Patrol has stopped a controversial program that shipped illegal immigrants back to Mexico through the tiny Texas border town of Presidio — for now. Full Story
The Dallas mayor left a hugely successful private sector career to lead the country’s ninth-largest city through an economic meltdown and the aftermath of a City Hall corruption scandal. And he doesn’t regret a minute of it. Here, he talks about fighting a sky-high crime rate, how he keeps party politics from his office, and every urban area's Achilles' heel: education. Full Story
The recession has caused a spike in enrollment at two-year schools like Austin Community College, which now educates more than 40,000 students — within striking distance of the great behemoth, the University of Texas at Austin. Full Story
Rick Perry has 49 percent; Kay Bailey Hutchison has 27 percent and Debra Medina has 19 percent, according to a new survey done for the Texas Credit Union League. On the Democratic side, Bill White got 51 percent to Farouk Shami's 19 percent. Full Story
Former Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson died in Lufkin today at age 76. Full Story
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has released its best bets for how to meet the 5 percent budget reduction requested by Gov. Rick Perry and other state leaders. Full Story
Paging Dr. Doug Ross. Debra Medina may soon be endangering your popularity. Full Story
How will lawmakers deal with a budget shortfall of at least $11 billion — and maybe several billion more — in the next legislative session? In all likelihood, by doing what they did in 2003, when things were almost this bad. Full Story
Immunization advocates want to expand our vaccination database, but the well-educated, middle-class parents who oppose them are organized and driven — and could force lawmakers to take sides in the tussle between personal freedom and public health. Full Story
The race to replace state Rep. Brian McCall, R-Plano, has it all: the high price of ambition, reruns of a 2006 campaign ad, a bikini-clad beauty and a fight over conservative bonafides. Full Story
Getting a look at correspondence, documents, reports, etc. related to death row inmate Hank Skinner's case is proving more difficult than I imagined. Full Story
Your afternoon reading. Full Story