We might be talking about a few of these next week. Even if we don't, one might lead the way to a good paper topic.
- 31 Days, 31 Ways. This is Texas Tribunes' look at what the Texas Legislature - which met this past spring - did with their time.
- Jury selection begins in former Texas cancer agency official’s deception trial. The Dallas Morning News reports on a trial involving a former official - its chief commercialization officer - of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas who helped provide a large grant to a company that was not properly reviewed. He is accused of "securing execution of a document by deception," which is a first degree felony. The DMN previously discussed the controversy here, and pointed out that some of the people involved in the company had been frequent contributors to elected officials in the state.
- Tribpedia: Cancer Prevention And Research Institute Of Texas.
- Pay to Play Rules.
- Analysis: Education Funding With a Judicial Assist. Texas is constitutionally required to provide adequate funding for public education in the state - and entire article of the Texas Constitution s devoted to public education. But just what that means can be a source of controversy. The legislature has one attitudes - and they tend to low ball funding, as well as allow funding to be unequal across the state while the judiciary tends to disagree. The judiciary works very slowly however and they are still wrestling with severe cuts made to public education in the state a few years back. The Texas Supreme Court is about to hear these cases, so we may be close to resolution - until the next conflict emerges.
- Tribpedia: School Finance.
- Texas Democrats prepare to regroup. The shift from Democratic to Republican dominance in the state - which we cover later in the semester - has left the Democratic Party a shell of its former self, and looking for ways to regroup. Here's the latest on those efforts.
