02/20/2012 - 14:00
The Texas Legislature faces a slightly improved situation in regard to the supplemental appropri
12/21/2011 - 22:30
Cleburne City Manager Rick Holden couldn’t ignore it any longer. Accrued sick pay consumes too much of the city’s general fund of $30.5 million for 2011-2012. The current amount of $9 million could climb to $12.3 million in five years, he said.
12/21/2011 - 20:55
Texas has a growing problem with Medicaid costs in the state budget. The state and federal health care program for the poor consumes 20 percent to 30 percent of the budget in state general revenue and all funds. This percentage will increase in the future. Texas lawmakers left a $4.8 billion shortfall in Medicaid they must address in 2013. Another state health care program has also had its share of red ink in recent years. Correctional managed care, which is the health care program for 156,000 state prison inmates, costs about $1 billion this biennium.
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05/15/2012 - 05:30
Secrecy will continue as Governor Rick Perry travels
05/11/2012 - 05:12
Nobel winner Alfred Gilman quitting Texas canc
05/10/2012 - 08:55
The Avalon Water Supply & Sewer Services Corp.
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The Ellis County District Attorney’s Office is investigating allegations of violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act committed by the Avalon Water Supply & Sewer Service C
It’s not $15 billion to $17 billion to fill the projected hole in Medicaid, but $11 million is at least a start for the agency that oversees the safety net.
Ellis County District Attorney Patrick Wilson has received three complaints from resident Carol Gillespie regarding allegations of open meetings violations with the Avalon Wate
So it’s the fault of taxpayers in College Station and Bryan ISDs that district debt has risen.
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Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reported yet another gain in monthly sales tax revenues Wednesday.
As the clock ticks for the Avalon Water Supply & Sewer Service Corp.
Editor's Note: Update at 11:30 a.m. Friday on Dr. Kern Wildenthal's salary is in italics in the fifth pargraph.
Taxpayers and open government advocates should trust the recent challenge to an open records request involving El Paso ISD receives the harsh rebuke it deserves.