Comptroller Boosts Revenue Estimate by 604 Million
Texas comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn raised the two year revenue forecast by 604 million, citing new federal funds. The update preserves the 54.7 billion spending plan while shifting 709 million in flexible federal money to Medicaid and related programs. Strayhorn criticized the franchise tax loophole and warned about tax avoidance as lawmakers tackle a 9.9 billion shortfall.
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Austin
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Strayhorn
House
Senate
Bush
Texas
House-Senate
House Senate
Kelly West
Stay halts Texas execution for mental retardation claim
In Dallas County, 42 year old Kenneth Dwayne Thomas won a stay of execution from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after arguing mental retardation. He was scheduled for lethal injection June 28 for the 1986 killings of Fred Finch, 66, and his wife Mildred, with Finch also sexually assaulted. The court sent the case back to a Dallas trial court to review the mental retardation claim, a factor raised during Thomas’s trial for Mildred Finch’s murder after a juror’s felony conviction surfaced.
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Kenneth Dwayne Thomas
Fred Finch
Mildred
Thomas
Mildred Finch
Texas historians mobilize against UT center budget cut
Harlingen activists rally as a proposed university budget cut targets the University of Texas Center for Studies in Texas History and would gut staffing at the Texas State Historical Association, threatening research and preservation efforts.
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Handbook of Texas
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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J. Frank Dobie
Larry McMurtry
James Michener
Bill Wittliff
Texas
Center
Ron Tyler
Harlingen
University of Texas
Center For Studies In Texas
Texas State Historical Association
Med mal cap dispute widens as Texas Legislature negotiates
In Austin, House and Senate leaders clash over caps for medical malpractice awards. Ratliff pushes a negotiated plan with 250000 per doctor and 750000 per claimant, plus 500000 for hospitals, while Nixon demands a hard 250000 cap. Gov Perry warns of a special session if the stalemate persists.
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Carrollton
Rick Perry
Marchant
Dennis Baggett
Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Bryan College Station Eagle
Associated Press
Bill Rathiff
Ratliff
Joe Nixon
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Perry
Joe A. DaSilva
Texas Hospital Association
David Dewhurst
Charles W. Bailey Jr
Texas Medical Association
Tom) Craddick
Dewhurst
Texas
Bailey
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