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6 Oct 2021, 3:00 am
In preparation for this debate, I came across another example of a Texas city being abused in the property insurance claims process by the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool. [read post]
25 Apr 2020, 5:46 am
Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 2:52 pm
Among Texas municipalities contracting with Redflex are Austin, El Paso, Plano, Corpus Christi, Grand Prairie, North Richland Hills, Hurst, Port Lavaca, League City, Carrollton, Killeen, Mesquite, and Longview - or at least those are the ones Grits could uncover via a quick online search. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 4:25 pm
Job Title: Senior ParalegalEmployer: Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool - Austin, TexasYears of Paralegal Experience: 12Specialty Areas: Workers' Compensation, Subrogation, LitigationCareer Highlights: My career started in general practice and quickly moved into workers' compensation insurance defense. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 6:46 am
“There are few, if any, states that provide less funding to cities than Texas,” said John Bender, a spokesman for the Texas Municipal League, which lobbies for local governments. [read post]
5 May 2011, 7:10 pm
Additionally, the Texas Municipal League cites costs to larger cities that would be forced to expand jail space and personnel. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 8:47 am
Although the Texas Municipal League did not object to the bill after inclusion of the additional language, many cities, along with the Environmental Defense Fund, testified against the bill as an unnecessary intrusion on local control. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 9:02 pm
That resentment has been encouraged by the Supreme Court’s decision in 2009, in the case of Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 4:03 am
Not everyone is enchanted with the bill, especially the Texas Municipal League, who says the bill essentially precludes local governments from regulating oil and gas activities. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 6:51 am
In Slay, the insured – a construction company – was hired by a city to design and construct a municipal sports complex, including Little League baseball fields, a softball field, parking lots, and a swimming pool. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 12:03 pm
The Texas Municipal League claimed that firefighting is not proven to cause colon cancer according to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, so ordinary life diseases should not be covered by compensation. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 8:55 am
The Rhode Island battle lines were themselves interesting – the statute was proposed by Senator Daniel DaPonte, a Democrat, at the request of Governor Chafee, an independent, and opposed by the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns, which advocates on behalf of the state’s 39 municipalities. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 12:41 pm
The NFL in turn transferred the franchise to a group from Texas, who moved the team from New York to Dallas, where the team was dubbed the Texans. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 7:24 am
The police unions have been too powerful and reformers' natural institutional allies in that fight - police chiefs and the Texas Municipal League - have been too cowardly and restrained.Plus, quite frankly, until about five minutes ago there simply wasn't broad-based support for police reform, even (perhaps especially) among Democrats. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 4:27 am
The Chairman of the Texas House Law Enforcement Committee, Joe Driver, has two noteworthy bills up in his own committee today, one I think is quite necessary, and another that I think is a bad idea.Stop Proliferation of Podunk PDsTo start with the one I like, HCR 96 is a resolution calling for a moratorium on the creation by the Lege of new types of hyperlocal police agencies, and a joint legislative study to create a policy on what constitutes a police force.This is sorely needed - as the… [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 10:57 am
Police unions, prosecutors and the Texas Municipal League joined forces in a rare strange-bedfellows coalition to outflank the (generally disdained) newspaper and broadcast lobby, who at the time were virtually the only advocates for openness at the capitol, certainly on criminal-justice topics. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 11:03 am
The Peoples Gas, Light and Coke Co.Docket: 10-896Issue(s): Whether the dormant Commerce Clause prohibits a State from imposing a generally applicable, nondiscriminatory ad valorem tax on natural gas stored in the State but connected to an interstate pipeline system for out-of-state transport.Certiorari stage documents:Opinion below (Court of Appeals of Texas, Sixth District)Petition for certiorariBrief in oppositionAmicus brief of Chambers County Appraisal District, et al.Amicus brief of… [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 4:34 am
Read the whole thing.They're right that only the Lege could fix this problem, but unfortunately the issue in Texas is bad on a bipartisan basis, with members of both parties falling over themselves to curry favor with their local police unions, who years ago achieved a standoff with the Texas Municipal League (which represents Texas cities) over the contents of the civil service code, arbitration provisions, etc.. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 12:00 pm
In San Antonio, Texas, a 7-year-old Latino boy with autism had an outburst during class at his elementary school. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 8:44 pm
First responders who are employed by cities that insure employees under the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool (TML-IRP) may be able to obtain assistance. [read post]
