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10 Mar 2009, 8:20 am
"Legislators, lobbyists push health insurance reform - Before prayer, pastor asks for halt to executions," is Mike Ward's item in today's Austin American-Statesman Capitol Digest.In offering Monday's prayer in the House, the Rev. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 5:20 am
Reports Mike Ward on the Statesman's legislative blog:A House budget subcommittee this morning tentatively agreed to drastically downsize a proposed pay-raise package for Texas' prison guards, and move it from the sure-thing budget to the wish list. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 11:44 pm
I don't quite know what to make of a report from Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman that legislators are worried TYC's cost per youth is too high and want them to make cuts. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 12:05 am
Now they're predicting their numbers will "flat-line," the Statesman's Mike Ward reports:From a Legislative Budget Board report: "The residential population is expected to bed much lower than the population in previous fiscal years . . . [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 1:45 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has an excellent piece this morning describing in detail how investigators believe cell phones and other contraband were smuggled onto Texas death row ("Texas prison cell phone smuggling blamed on inmate rings," Feb. 15):Instead of the phone being smuggled by a single corrupt guard, as originally thought, investigators now say it and dozens of others might have been put in the hands of Texas' worst killers by an intricate network of… [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 9:55 am
My friend Ray Ward will be presenting, along with Mike Fontham and several other local lawyers. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 12:33 am
From the Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger a story that follows up on our earlier postings (going back to 2006) here, here, here and here concerning the Eaton Aerospace-Frisby trade secrets case.A third criminal indictment has now been filed against five former Eaton Aerospace engineers on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and possession of trade secrets.According to the story, the trial of Rodney Case, Kevin Clark, Mike Fulton, Douglas Murphy and James Ward had been set… [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 5:00 am
Commitee assignments haven't been made yet in the Texas House, but the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported yesterday that under a new, proposed committee structure contemplated in proposed House rules:the House Corrections committee would lose its authority over the Youth Commission. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 10:19 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reports that the state prison system's crackdown on cell phones and contraband have continued after a lockdown last fall supposedly began an era of "zero tolerance" ("Cell phone smuggling continues," Jan. 26):More than 200 cell phones have been confiscated in state prison cellblocks since a system-wide shakedown for contraband ended in November, almost twice as many as were seized during the lockdown. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 9:30 am
There’s Mike and Carol and the six kids, but what about Alice? [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 9:39 am
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:A compromise has emerged in the back-room fight over merging Texas' juvenile-justice agencies â€â [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:00 pm
It should be shutdown, IMO. 01/09/2009 By Mike Ward/Cox News Service Texas Youth Commission investigators are trying to determine why several incarcerated teenage boys who were sexually assaulted at a Waco-area lockup had been put the same cells with youths accused of sex crimes, officials confirmed Friday. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 3:08 pm
But, Judge Ward noted, he made quite clear that the remarks were to be brief, and as Judge Ward said that as he was unclear just exactly what Franklin's contempt powers might be in his current condition, he decided to comply. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 10:35 am
An article by Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman today ("Cell phones hard to find on death row," Nov. 23) makes me fear Texas prison administrators haven't learned the right lessons from the recent rash of contraband discoveries (particularly cell phones) on death row:"A year ago, we were amazed to find an inmate with both a cell phone and a charger up there," John Moriarty, the state prison system's inspector general, said Thursday. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 4:00 am
Mike Ward should move to Senator Whitmire's office where he belongs as he has demonstrated nothing but biased reporting and no journalistic impartiality on this particular issue. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 8:44 pm
The Austin American-Statesman's Mike Ward, who broke the original story, posted more on the Postcards from the Lege blog, "Officials say inmate threatened lawmaker, reporter after cell phone bust. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 8:58 am
Reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("After Ike damaged Galveston hospital, prisoners shipped elsewhere in Texas," Nov. 14)Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director, said administrators at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have promised to reopen some of the prison hospital's 365 beds later this month, but a full reopening is indefinite. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 4:34 pm
According to Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Twenty-three jobs have been eliminated at the Texas Youth Commission's Austin headquarters and 12 other positions will be frozen to save $1.7 million, officials said late this afternoon. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 12:56 am
Minnesota Court Rejects Coverage For Spyware Claims - Boston lawyer Mike Aylward of Morrison & Mahoney at the National Insurance Law Forum Court declines to stay permanent injunction pending appeal - The blogging lawyers and attorneys at MorrisJames on the firm's Delaware Patent Litigation Report Litigation Over San Francisco's Employer Mandated Healthcare Ordinance Continues - Sacramento attorney Robin E. [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 1:32 am
- Houston attorney Mike Myers of McClanahan Myers Espey on the firm's Contingent Fee Litigation Blog The Top Three Common Claims Against Lawyers - Canadian lawyer Rick Bickhram of Hull & Hull in the firm's Toronto Estate Law Blog The Economic Picture for Law Firms Gets Worse - Legal marketing expert Larry Bodine at his Law Marketing Blog Can You Tell The Difference Between Lawyers - Part Two - Boise attorney Chuck Peterson on Peterson Law… [read post]
