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Could City Living Save the Texas Youth Commission?
"..."frustrated" by the lack of meaningful reform at the Texas Youth Commission, Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, backs a complete..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Youth Commission Trouble
Scandal enveloping Texas Youth Commission has only gotten worse in last week
"...The scandal enveloping the Texas Youth Commission has only gotten worse in the last..."

March 16, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

State Facilities Head Leaves for Consulting Gig
Former city employee steps in as interim director
"...Edward Johnson has departed the Texas Facilities Commission, where he served as a change-agent during..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Sunset Advisory Commission Takes Aim at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
State commission looks into concerns of transparency
"...Every 12 years since 1977, the Texas Legislature's Sunset Advisory Commission reviews state agencies for evidence..."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Sounding the Alarm on Texas' Nursing Home System
25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies
"...was hardly an isolated incident. Just months before, the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services told KXAN that..."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Texas Activists Rattle Cages Over Shabby Jails
Austin-based inmates' rights group hopes to shine daylight on inhumane conditions and mismanagement in county jails
"...With the Texas Youth Commission scandal and a damning U.S. Justice Department..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bob Bursey Takes Over Texas Performing Arts
UT hires the director of Bard College's Fisher Center to run TPA
"...Get ready to welcome a new executive director to Texas Performing Arts. Today, the University of Texas at Austin..."

Sept. 3, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

1997 Texas Legislature Press Bills
"...SB407: Closes access to information concerning the licensing of facilities that conduct abortions. SB609: Makes confidential the drug and..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Column

ERCOT Says Texas Power Demand to Double by 2030, With Bitcoin to Blame
Gas demand also increasing with electrification
"...During a public hearing before the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce June 12, the..."

June 18, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

Texas Dems Want Stronger Immigrant Detention Oversight
More than 5,000 immigrant children in detention centers
"...help with the family separation crisis at the border. Texas Democrats with the Mexican American Legislative Caucus released a..."

July 31, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

Amid Increasing Earthquakes, Texas Forces Reduction in Fracking Disposal
Oil and gas operators pressured to recycle wastewater
"...From November 8 to December 17, 2023, there were..."

Dec. 29, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Sierra Club Sues EPA Over Texas’ Shoddy Haze Plan
Another development in the Fayette coal plant saga
"...for failing to enforce higher air quality standards for Texas and seven other states...."

June 15, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Legislature Signs the Check on a Big Boost for Texas Creative Industries
Rebate funding is up, but it's not as simple as it seems ...
"...could have ever hoped for." That's how Austin Film Commission Executive Director Brian Gannon described the new funding totals..."

June 7, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Senate Passes Forced Abortion Counseling Bill
SB 2234: A "dangerous expansion of state power"
"...It’s paternalistic, it’s anti-choice, it’s a bill by the Texas Senate...."

May 3, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Commission Mission
UT's Performing Arts Center Spawns New Art
"...a major force in the creation of new work, commissioning pieces from some of the world's premier composers, musicians,..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Promotes Air Pollution
State regulator barely even tries to hold industry accountable, advocates say
"...The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has long been viewed as..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

The New Texas Family Planning
Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care
"...pieces of state legislation. Budget riders tacked onto the Texas Department of State Health Services' appropriation in March 2005..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sucking, Spewing, and Burning LNG and the Texas Gulf
Plans for LNG terminals in the Gulf of Mexico raise major environmental questions
"...Following the latest recommendations of the governor's Texas Energy Planning Council, Texas is poised to become the..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Shame on Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
"...Dear Editor, Shame on the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for voting against humane..."

April 3, 2012 Postmarks

Even the Winter Storm Disaster Couldn't Budge the Texas Lege on Climate Change
Maybe when hell freezes over?
"...D-Driftwood, in January at the beginning of the 87th Texas Legislature, she was "optimistic that the body [would] openly..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Funeralgate Hits Texas
What Did Bush Know?
"...a lobbyist who helped pass a bill through the Texas Legislature overhauling the TFSC and ousting board chair McNeil...."

July 9, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

85th Texas Legislature Preview
Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?
"...moment captured the underlying conflict leading into the 85th Texas Legislature, it came on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan...."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Environmental Penalties Are Increasing
Time for tougher regulation
"...that permit was under scrutiny at the Legislature. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will grow some new teeth..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Texas Wants Nuke Waste
"...On May 7 the Texas Senate passed HB 1567, the nuclear-waste dump bill that,..."

May 16, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Opinion: The Texas Grid: A Tale of Profits Over People
One year after Winter Storm Uri, Rep. Gina Hinojosa reflects on still-needed improvements
"...This week is the one-year anniversary of the Texas Blackout. Many Texans are still rebuilding after the emotional..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Column by Rep. Gina Hinojosa

Texas' Rickety Health Care System Heads for a Fiscal Cliff
As D.C. dollars dry up, millions of uninsured Texans see no signs of improvement
"...Everything's bigger in Texas – except for the system that's supposed to provide..."

Nov. 19, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

EPA Flexes Federal Muscle on Texas Air
Gov. Perry's huffin' and puffin' in defense of dirty air
"...took decisive action to clean up air pollution in Texas by invalidating all 122 "flexible" air-quality permits issued by..."

July 9, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Texas Radio and the Really Big Beat
Capstar's Austin-based Empire
"...Kansas named John R. Brinkley headed down to the Texas/Mexico border and built the world's most powerful radio station...."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Bill Crawford

Breaking Ground: What Three New Studios Mean for the Texas Film Industry
Three new studios in the Austin area could mean space for the film industry to expand
"...the one created by the biggest Volume soundstage in Texas. The technology may be new to many, but they'll..."

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Central Texas Lawmakers Speak Out About the 86th Legislative Session
Interviews with the team representing 2.1 million Austin metro residents
"...It's hard to imagine the 86th Texas Legislature being any crazier than the last three, or..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

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