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27 Feb 2012, 9:07 am
Today's Austin American-Statesman carries the editorial, "Add cost of drugs to death penalty debate. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 5:44 am
I can't tell if it's part of the $34 million already slated to be cut from the Windham School District, but Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that key legislative leaders (Shapiro, Whitmire and Madden) want to eliminate funding for post-secondary education of inmates. [read post]
30 May 2010, 11:54 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has a feature today ("More programs, fewer beds could help prisons' bottom line," May 30) covering themes that will be familiar to Grits readers: "For Texas, a state that officials say has never closed an entire adult prison, a public discussion could be coming to do just that. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 8:30 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has a story outlining a slew of cost-cutting proposals under consideration in the House Corrections Committee "that just a few years ago never would have received a serious hearing [or] have gained support. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports:Making good on an earlier threat, officials at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are seeking to stop providing medical care to the state's 154,000 convicts at in-prison clinics it now runs.Prison officials said Thursday the move could trigger a complete restructuring of how Texas provides health care to its prison convicts at a time when mushrooming costs are expected to leave the Galveston school and Texas Tech… [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 8:11 am
" It's by Mike Ward. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 7:38 am
"Senate panel votes to keep chairman of Forensic Science Commission," is the Austin American-Statesman report by Chuck Lindell and Mike Ward. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 7:47 am
Chuck Lindell writes, "Morton judge steps aside; replacement named," for the Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 5:22 am
As legislators vet proposals for the next biennium's budget, officials at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice haven't yet figured out how to implement cuts ordered last year, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Prison agency proposed 1,000 layoffs, less drug treatment, fewer convict meals," Feb. 8), who obtained a four-page summary of the agency's budget-reduction plan through an open records request. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 4:46 am
It's not news at this point to Grits readers that state officials are considering prison closures in the face of looming budget shortfalls predicted for next year in order to protect recent diversion programs from being scrapped, but this morning the possibility was broached in the MSM by Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman, who reports ("State officials consider closing some prisons," Feb. 11):More than a decade after expanding Texas' prison system into one of… [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 6:18 am
University of Texas at Austin, in which the court will consider the use of race as a factor in the University of Texas’ undergraduate admissions process. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 8:20 am
Lobbying “Universities chase big defense dollars” by Austin Wright in Politico. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 8:44 am
Tony Plohetski reports, " Execution date set for police killer," in today's Austin American-Statesman.A state district judge has set an execution date for David Lee Powell, convicted and sentenced to die by three separate juries in the fatal shooting of an Austin police officer more than 30 years ago.Powell, who is one of the state's longest-serving death row inmates, is scheduled to be executed June 15 "after the hour of 6 p.m. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 5:20 am
An agency proposal to build three new lockups in urban areas would be scuttled.RELATED:Senate backs prison pay hikes, Austin StatesmanSenators discuss closing Corsicana State Home, Corsicana Daily SunLawmakers want to cut costs at youth prisons, AP New TYC budget plan unveiled, Austin Statesman [read post]
14 May 2009, 7:28 pm
Stephen Fairley, who's always insightful, has an interesting post on technology tips for boosting your practice and Mike Danko has a post on a potentially frivelous lawsuit filed against Cirrus Design by Corey Lidle's widow. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:28 am
Whether that translates into tangible change is this generation's responsibility.Austin Budget Cuts: In the wake of the Mike Ramos protests, which in Austin morphed into the George Floyd protests, the city of Austin restricted the Austin PD budget for the first time in decades, including a 4.6% cut derived mainly from delaying cadet classes while the department's training curriculum undergoes a soup-to-nuts revamp. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 6:00 am
For additional reading about boating safety read these other posts: Have a Safe Boating Weekend, by Brooks Schuelke, Austin, Texas. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 8:25 am
That's the title of an editorial in today's Austin American-Statesman making endorsement for Texas high courts races in the upcoming general election. [read post]
27 Jun 2021, 6:00 pm
(Source: SSRN) New Job Postings on Patently-O: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC WilmerHale Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP Purdue Research Foundation Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:47 am
Nidal Hasan is necessarily impacted by reports that suggest Hasan was motivated by terrorism, the Austin American-Statesman reports, here. [read post]
