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  • Budget Leaders: It's Up to the House

    By Ross Ramsey

    If the House doesn't pass legislation that adds $2.6 billion to state revenue with a mix of delayed payments, increased penalties, government efficiencies and the like, the state budget won't balance and a special session will probably be required, House and Senate leaders said today. Full Story 

    Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst speaking to the press about budget and education matters on May 17, 2011.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • Conference Panel Approves Most of Budget

    By Ross Ramsey

    House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on everything in the state budget except for public and higher education and a section of general provisions that can be used later to make sure the numbers in the budget balance. Full Story 

    Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan and Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • Statewide Smoking Ban Not Stubbed Out Yet

    By Emily Ramshaw and Becca Aaronson

    Don't stub out the statewide smoking ban bill yet. The bill's House and Senate authors say they've got a vehicle for the measure to be passed, and they're still hopeful Texas will be the first southern state to outlaw the habit in restaurants, bars and most public places. Full Story 

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  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Ross Ramsey

    Aaronson on pork choppers, Aguilar on sanctuary cities legislation, Galbraith on Brownsville's ban on plastic bags, Grissom on Delma Banks and prosecutorial misconduct, Hamilton on a tough week for higher education in Texas, Philpott on wildfires and politics, Ramshaw on the state's pursuit of a federal Medicaid overhaul, M. Smith on what would happen if lawmakers don't rewrite school finance formulas, yours truly on the Lege as schoolyard and Stiles with interactive graphics on how the proposed Senate redistricting maps compare with current ones: The best of our best content from May 9 to 13, 2011. Full Story 

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  • John Mendelsohn: The TT Interview

    By Reeve Hamilton

    Dr. John Mendelsohn, the outgoing president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, discusses the significance of budget cuts for his institutions, the value of public research and his advice for his successor. Full Story 

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  • House Gives First OK to Medicaid Waiver Plan

    By Emily Ramshaw

    House lawmakers have given an early okay to Rep. Lois Kolkhorst’s bill to ask Washington for a block grant to run Medicaid — the joint state-federal health care program for children, the disabled and the very poor — as Texas sees fit. Full Story 

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  • Is David Dewhurst Goofy — or Goofy Like a Fox?

    By Ross Ramsey

    It’s funny that you can win four statewide elections and still have people think you’re a goofball, in over your head. But maybe Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s fumbles leading to the Texas Senate’s budget vote give the lie to that. Maybe he’s goofy like a fox. Full Story 

    Lt. Governor David Dewhurst listens to members after the Texas Senate voted, 19-12, to pass the budget on May 4, 2011.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • Playing by the Rules

    By Ross Ramsey

    The real rule of the Texas Legislature is that there are no rules when the rules get in the way. If the Senate needs to pass a budget and can't get a two-thirds vote to do so, and if there's a way to squint at the rules and do it with a simple majority, then that's what they'll do. Full Story 

  • Kathleen Sebelius: The TT Interview

    By Justin Dehn and Thanh Tan

    In an exclusive on-camera interview with The Texas Tribune on Friday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the federal government's efforts to cooperate with a state like Texas, where GOP leaders have been hostile to the Affordable Care Act. Full Story 

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    Credit: Justin Dehn