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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>The Texas Tribune: TribWire</title><link>http://www.texastribune.org/tribwire/</link><description>Links from The Texas Tribune's TribWire.</description><atom:link href="http://www.texastribune.org/feeds/tribwire/" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2015 12:15:38 -0500</lastBuildDate><item><title>State incorrectly obscures millions of dollars in legal payments</title><link>http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional/state-incorrectly-obscures-millions-of-dollars-in-/nkW67/#23e85d37.3580500.735672</link><description>The state of Texas has been improperly concealing public information about thousands of legal settlements and court judgments worth millions of dollars, an American-Statesman review of government legal records shows. <a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional/state-incorrectly-obscures-millions-of-dollars-in-/nkW67/#23e85d37.3580500.735672">Austin American-Statesman</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Jordan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2015 12:15:38 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional/state-incorrectly-obscures-millions-of-dollars-in-/nkW67/#23e85d37.3580500.735672</guid></item><item><title>Blue Bell Ice Cream Products Linked to Illness</title><link>http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Blue-Bell-Ice-Cream-Products-Linked-to-Illness-296245151.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand</link><description>On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration issued a consumer advisory about certain Blue Bell ice cream products made in Texas. The notice was issued after several confirmed cases of Listeriosis in Kansas were linked to products made on a single production line at the Blue Bell Creameries plant in Brenham <a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Blue-Bell-Ice-Cream-Products-Linked-to-Illness-296245151.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand">NBC DFW</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Jordan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:36:28 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Blue-Bell-Ice-Cream-Products-Linked-to-Illness-296245151.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DFWBrand</guid></item><item><title>Dallas state Rep. Villalba drawing fire for proposal that criminalizes ‘cop-watching’</title><link>http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/dallas-state-rep-villalba-drawing-heat-for-proposal-that-criminalizes-cop-watching.html/?hootPostID=53ad509501fcd8695d24e264283f3541</link><description>That rep is none other than Dallas Republican Jason Villalba, who on Tuesday introduced House Bill 2918, which has to do with “the prosecution of the offense of interference with public duties.” Per the proposal, only (licensed?) embers of the Old-School, Mainstream Media could record police officers in action “within 25 feet” of the incident (or from 100 feet away if armed). <a href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/dallas-state-rep-villalba-drawing-heat-for-proposal-that-criminalizes-cop-watching.html/?hootPostID=53ad509501fcd8695d24e264283f3541">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:21:26 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/dallas-state-rep-villalba-drawing-heat-for-proposal-that-criminalizes-cop-watching.html/?hootPostID=53ad509501fcd8695d24e264283f3541</guid></item><item><title>Rand Paul to open Austin office</title><link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/rand-paul-austin-office-116054.html</link><description>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), heading to Texas this weekend for the South by Southwest digital-palooza, will open an Austin office for his RANDPAC political committee as part of his effort to attract tech talent and appeal to younger voters. <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/rand-paul-austin-office-116054.html">Politico</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ross Ramsey</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:51:56 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/rand-paul-austin-office-116054.html</guid></item><item><title>The Brief: Tentative Agreement Struck in Refinery Labor Unrest</title><link>http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/13/brief/</link><description>Steelworkers and Shell Oil Co. have struck a tentative agreement on a labor deal that would end a strike at 15 refineries and chemical plants, the Houston Chronicle reported Thursday night. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/13/brief/">Texas Tribune</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Jordan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:00:00 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/13/brief/</guid></item><item><title>Dallas, Fort Worth mayors jab at legislators for bills to limit local control</title><link>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20150312-dallas-fort-worth-mayors-jab-at-legislators-for-bills-to-limit-local-control.ece</link><description>Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings predicts North Texas’ booming population will soon surpass even the Chicago area’s — if, that is, lawmakers “don’t do stupid things down here in Austin.” It was one of several barbs Rawlings directed at the Legislature on Thursday as he joined Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price in Austin for a panel discussion on a variety of city issues. <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20150312-dallas-fort-worth-mayors-jab-at-legislators-for-bills-to-limit-local-control.ece">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:25:52 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20150312-dallas-fort-worth-mayors-jab-at-legislators-for-bills-to-limit-local-control.ece</guid></item><item><title>Muñoz family helps offer bill to remove life-support requirement for pregnant women</title><link>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150312-munoz-family-helps-offer-bill-to-remove-life-support-requirement-for-pregnant-women.ece</link><description>The family of Marlise Muñoz, the pregnant and brain-dead North Texas woman who was left on life support for two months against her family’s wishes, helped introduce a proposed law they hope will spare other families from the pain they suffered. <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150312-munoz-family-helps-offer-bill-to-remove-life-support-requirement-for-pregnant-women.ece">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:25:18 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150312-munoz-family-helps-offer-bill-to-remove-life-support-requirement-for-pregnant-women.ece</guid></item><item><title>Garland tries to steer LBJ East funding through Legislature</title><link>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/garland-mesquite/headlines/20150312-garland-tries-to-steer-lbj-east-funding-through-legislature.ece</link><description>Local legislators reached consensus to back $1.3 billion in LBJ East freeway upgrades long before Thursday, when a bill to green-light the project was filed in the Texas House. Next is the harder work: agreeing on how the improvements get funded. <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/garland-mesquite/headlines/20150312-garland-tries-to-steer-lbj-east-funding-through-legislature.ece">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:48:16 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/garland-mesquite/headlines/20150312-garland-tries-to-steer-lbj-east-funding-through-legislature.ece</guid></item><item><title>Analysis: House budget stresses schools</title><link>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150312-analysis-house-budget-stresses-schools.ece</link><description>In a budget dance that’s nearing the halfway point, the House has shown some leg. On Thursday, House budget writers finished drafting a two-year spending plan. It differs in three very big ways from the Senate’s emerging package: The House would spend more on public schools; about the same on roads, though only in the short run; and less on border security. <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150312-analysis-house-budget-stresses-schools.ece">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:46:56 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150312-analysis-house-budget-stresses-schools.ece</guid></item><item><title>Rains help some DFW lakes more than others</title><link>http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/article13837583.html</link><description>For some area lakes, the recent wet weather amounted to a deluge. For others, it’s been little more than a trickle. Joe Pool Lake reached flood stage, and Lake Arlington has climbed nearly 3 feet. Cedar Creek Lake, east of Dallas, which provides water to Tarrant County, has climbed more than 2 feet since Feb. 20. <a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/article13837583.html">Fort Worth Star-Telegram</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:44:59 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/article13837583.html</guid></item><item><title>Bill restricting rights of citizens to videotape police introduced in Texas House</title><link>http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Bill-restricting-rights-of-citizens-to-videotape-6130903.php</link><description>A bill restricting the rights of citizens to record the police was filed in Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday. The House Bill 2918 introduced by Texas Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) would make private citizens photographing or recording the police within 25 feet of them a class B misdemeanor, and those who are armed would not be able to stand recording within 100 feet of an officer. <a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Bill-restricting-rights-of-citizens-to-videotape-6130903.php">Houston Chronicle</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:37:47 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Bill-restricting-rights-of-citizens-to-videotape-6130903.php</guid></item><item><title>State fired employee who tried to change rules to get $40K tuition</title><link>http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/State-fired-employee-who-tried-to-change-rules-to-6131306.php</link><description>The deputy director of a little-known Texas government agency was fired last fall for allegedly taking Fridays off without reporting it as vacation, stealing artwork from the office and changing policies to try to make it allowable for him to get a $40,000 bonus for tuition in a master's degree program, according to personnel records obtained by the Houston Chronicle. <a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/State-fired-employee-who-tried-to-change-rules-to-6131306.php">Houston Chronicle</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:35:02 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/State-fired-employee-who-tried-to-change-rules-to-6131306.php</guid></item><item><title>Tentative agreement reached in sprawling plant strike</title><link>http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Tentative-agreement-reached-in-sprawling-plant-6131479.php</link><description>The United Steelworkers and Shell Oil Co. said Thursday they had reached a tentative agreement on a four-year labor pact brought to a head by a strike at 15 refineries and chemical plants that had grown increasingly acrimonious and was threatening to drive up U.S. gasoline prices. <a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Tentative-agreement-reached-in-sprawling-plant-6131479.php">Houston Chronicle</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:33:59 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Tentative-agreement-reached-in-sprawling-plant-6131479.php</guid></item><item><title>Business, faith and community leaders urge Medicaid expansion</title><link>http://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/texas_legislature/article/Business-faith-and-community-leaders-urge-6131084.php</link><description>Business groups, faith leaders and city officials from around the state gathered outside the Capitol on Thursday to urge the Legislature to pass health care expansion legislation. <a href="http://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/texas_legislature/article/Business-faith-and-community-leaders-urge-6131084.php">San Antonio Express-News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:32:59 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/texas_legislature/article/Business-faith-and-community-leaders-urge-6131084.php</guid></item><item><title>The former head of Tamaulipas’s housing agency has been charged in a U.S. money laundering investigation</title><link>http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/The-former-head-of-Tamaulipas-s-housing-agency-6131147.php</link><description>A grand jury in Corpus Christi indicted the former head of public housing for the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, adding yet another ex-government official to the list of people accused of laundering dirty money in South Texas. <a href="http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/The-former-head-of-Tamaulipas-s-housing-agency-6131147.php">San Antonio Express-News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Reynolds</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:29:54 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/The-former-head-of-Tamaulipas-s-housing-agency-6131147.php</guid></item><item><title>Texas' truancy law impacts poor the most</title><link>http://www.kvue.com/story/news/investigations/defenders/2015/03/12/texas-truancy-law-impacts-poor-the-most/70217778/</link><description>AUSTIN -- A KVUE Defenders investigation uncovered Texas leads the nation in the number of criminal truancy cases, disproportionately impacting the poor and minorities. <a href="http://www.kvue.com/story/news/investigations/defenders/2015/03/12/texas-truancy-law-impacts-poor-the-most/70217778/">KVUE-TV</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Pasztor</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:28:31 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.kvue.com/story/news/investigations/defenders/2015/03/12/texas-truancy-law-impacts-poor-the-most/70217778/</guid></item><item><title>Martin Frost, fellow former lawmaker lament divided Congress at Bush Center event</title><link>http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/martin-frost-fellow-former-lawmaker-lament-divided-congress-at-bush-center-event.html/</link><description>UNIVERSITY PARK — Former U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, D-Dallas, and Tom Davis, R-Va., decried the fall of moderates and a lack of decorum in Congress during a discussion Thursday night at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. <a href="http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/martin-frost-fellow-former-lawmaker-lament-divided-congress-at-bush-center-event.html/">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Pasztor</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:20:40 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/martin-frost-fellow-former-lawmaker-lament-divided-congress-at-bush-center-event.html/</guid></item><item><title>House’s emerging budget differs from Senate’s in three big ways</title><link>http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/houses-emerging-budget-differs-from-senates-in-three-big-ways.html/</link><description>House budget writers on Thursday finished drafting a two-year state budget that has three very big differences from Senate GOP leaders’ emerging budget package. <a href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/houses-emerging-budget-differs-from-senates-in-three-big-ways.html/">Dallas Morning News</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Pasztor</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:19:45 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/houses-emerging-budget-differs-from-senates-in-three-big-ways.html/</guid></item><item><title>First female president or vice president near-certain come 2016</title><link>http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/235448-a-woman-in-the-white-house-in-2017-its-likely</link><description>One way or another, there’s likely to be a woman in the White House in 2017. <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/235448-a-woman-in-the-white-house-in-2017-its-likely">The Hill</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Pasztor</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:16:39 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/235448-a-woman-in-the-white-house-in-2017-its-likely</guid></item><item><title>A bunch of states want to get rid of daylight saving time. Is your state one of them?</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/12/a-bunch-of-states-want-to-get-rid-of-daylight-saving-time-is-your-state-one-of-them/?tid=sm_tw</link><description>If you feel groggy, grumpy and tired, and (rightly) blame daylight saving time for your woes, take solace in this: You're not alone, and politicians are taking note. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/12/a-bunch-of-states-want-to-get-rid-of-daylight-saving-time-is-your-state-one-of-them/?tid=sm_tw">Washington Post</a></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Pasztor</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:13:09 -0500</pubDate><guid>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/12/a-bunch-of-states-want-to-get-rid-of-daylight-saving-time-is-your-state-one-of-them/?tid=sm_tw</guid></item></channel></rss>