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21 May 2007, 11:58 pm
Lon Burnam successfully use his point of order (discussed here) to negotiate the expansion of phone surveillance out of Senate Bill 11 - the House and Senate authors both agreed to a deal to cut out the entire wiretapping section. [read post]
21 May 2007, 9:28 am
(I know folks in Austin, Dallas and Houston, probably elsewhere, would like that authority, too, but maybe in 2009.)This has been an amazing year for an issue that's lingered at the fringes of legislative interest for many sessions. [read post]
11 May 2007, 5:55 am
The Senate concurred in House amendments to SB 823 deregulating wiretapping authority and sent it to the Governor. [read post]
4 May 2007, 1:42 am
Riddle, I suppose, for her use of the art of compromise to get SB 823 past a contentious House. [read post]
3 May 2007, 2:33 am
Houston PD can't run it's crime labs properly - why does anyone think they'd do any better with wiretapping powers? [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 9:36 am
Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, would... [read post]
22 Apr 2007, 9:06 pm
Thomas Redding of Redding & Assoc. in Houston, will argue for John and Pamela Hinck, while Assistant to the Solicitor General Jonathan Marcus will argue on behalf of the United States. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 8:03 am
This is a solution looking for a problem - there's just no good reason to deregulate this authority. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 11:57 pm
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, the UT-Austin admissions research director Gary Lavergne, who authored the book The Sniper in the Tower, makes the same connection I'm sure millions of Texans immediately did to Charles Whitman, whose methodical killing spree at the University of Texas occured almost 41 years ago. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 10:57 am
Texas' racial profiling data collection law is now six years old, and it's time to revamp the law to make the data gathered more accurate and uniform across agencies, says the bill's original author Royce West. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 7:00 am
Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Chairman Aaron Peña points out on his blog that tomorrow's committee agenda contains several bills aimed at stemming "human trafficking," all authored by Democrats, and also points to this Houston Chronicle editorial on the topic which somewhat clarifies how these differ from straight up immigration bills:Smuggling and trafficking are often confused, though the two crimes can be interrelated. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 1:44 pm
Meanwhile, Texas Congressman Joe Barton (R), former chairman and current ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, continued on his warpath that FERC should have jurisdiction over ERCOT. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 7:46 am
They wanted to know if I was going to say Tremont / Stature built my house, and the general partners were: Jorge Casimiro (on the Harris County Housing Authority), Thomas Thibodeau, and Armad Al Banna? [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 2:10 pm
Representative Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston) will carry the legislation forward in the House of Representatives when the bill passes out of the Senate. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 8:39 pm
Take the recent example of the American Bankers Association's director of housing and economic development, James Ballentine. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 3:30 am
Called "The Banana Wagon: 1943," the May, 1943 photo shows a house with a fruit stand in Houston on Franklin Street. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 1:40 am
Reported the Houston Chronicle ("Kimbrough: No authority to make changes at TYC," March 27):"Kimbrough's not carrying a badge or ordering law enforcement to do this or that," said Perry spokesman Ted Royer. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 10:47 am
The FSC is also to be housed and staffed by DPS. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 1:07 am
Senate Panel Authorizes Subpoenas of Rove, Other Top White House Aides in Prosecutor Firings
The Associated Press
A Senate panel, following the House's lead, authorized subpoenas Thursday for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 7:50 am
Several more items related to the Texas Youth Commission deserve Grits readers attention:The House Corrections Committee will hold hearings Thursday and Friday to hear bills related to TYC.Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reported yesterday that Rick Perry probably didn't have Constitutional authority to appoint a special master for TYC.Kuff questions whether the TYC board will be allowed to resign and along with Capitol Annex, wonders what did Rick Perry's people know? [read post]
