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29 Aug 2012, 9:00 am
Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that "Court rejects Texas legislative districts as discriminatory; The ruling, if upheld on appeal, will force Texas lawmakers to redraw the districts for Congress and the state Legislature so as to elect a greater number of minorities. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 8:44 am
In part, these rules are a response to the Legislature's transfer to the RRC from the Texas Water Board of responsibility for determining the minimum depth of surface casing required to protect potable aquifers. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 8:32 am
And the legislature also would have to draw up a new plan for the state house seats, because the Court found that the legislature had eliminated a few districts in which minorities had had the ability to prevail, and did not replace them with new so-called “ability districts” elsewhere in the state. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 5:31 am
"Few other states imprison prostitutes as does Texas, which has a long history of locking higher percentages of its lawbreakers in state prisons than all but a few other states," reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman last week. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 3:17 am
Yet every time one of these proposals comes to the Texas Legislature, the lobbyists claim this will be good for all Texas citizens. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 7:13 pm
Thus, we conclude that the Texas legislature redrew the boundaries for SD 10 with discriminatory intent. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 3:57 pm
In truth, the Texas Legislature did pass a bill aimed at protecting the public by preventing distracted driving accidents. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:39 pm
Counties that want to expand Medicaid on their own face at least two hurdles: the president and the state legislature. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:04 pm
This dramatic increase required the Texas legislature to create new voting districts for the four seats added to the State’s congressional delegation, U.S. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 7:52 am
Today, 38 states set the maximum age at 17, 10 states—Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin—set the age at 16, and two states—North Carolina and New York—set it at 15; therefore, 16- and 17- year-olds automatically are tried in the adult system. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
Ward wrote that "Prison guards in Texas are paid between $27,000 and $37,000. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 12:14 pm
Call your state representatives and tell them you need insurance reform for Texas families. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 7:26 am
The court stated that the law as written by the State Legislature makes clear who is to receive the proceeds of the insurance policies at issue. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 10:05 am
Simon BrownWall of Separation It seems that Texas state Sen. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 10:05 am
By their very nature, private schools are not required to maintain strict church-state separation and there is absolutely no way of forcing them to do so.It seems that Texas state Sen. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
Ward attributed the decline to alternatives to incarceration enacted by the Legislature in 2007, as well as "A decrease in crime rates, changes in demographics and an aging state population [which] also have a role in emptying Texas' prison beds. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 9:26 am
Akin to the Minnesota legislature to Eric Holder's policy to affirmatively seek out schizophrenics and morons for positions in the Department of Justice (as long as they're "qualified," and no, I'm not making that up either).Courtesy of longtime reader notablogger, I bring you the most recent addition, that being Texas state Judge Tom Head. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 7:21 am
Whitmire, anybody who claims the Legislature will "pay for improvement of conditions" for prison workers is blowing smoke. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 3:32 am
By the way, I had asked Lach Taylor whether CHSWC has studies on how IMR has worked out for other state such as Texas and others. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 1:50 pm
So, for advocates of change, making allies in the state legislatures to move these practices into law means everything. [read post]
