News Archive
Mentally ill fall to emergency rooms
January 23, 2005
Two years after budget cuts, psychiatric patients are struggling to find help.
Florida Offers a Bold Stroke to Fight Medicaid Cost
January 23, 2005
America's governors, struggling for a grip on mounting Medicaid costs, are restricting access, squeezing providers and chipping away at services.
Sleepy Mexican Border Towns Awake to Drug Violence
January 23, 2005
Mexico's drug war has begun to move north of the border.
Using the Shapleigh archive
January 21, 2005
This website contains more than 200 archived articles, each available by using the keyword search system.
House members balk at prospect of starting statewide property tax
January 20, 2005
A school finance overhaul might be impossible without a new statewide property tax.
The Texas difference: This Bush is no Lyndon Johnson
January 20, 2005
State's 'ownership society' not exactly model of success
Pay Roll tax idea reborn
January 18, 2005
A proposal for a Texas business tax based on the size of each firm's work force will soon be drafted again.
Unsocial Insecurity
January 17, 2005
The Administration’s campaign to do something about, or to, Social Security will get its prime-time launch next month in the State of the Union extravaganza.
Shapleigh Warns That Sales Tax Hike Will Hurt Mexicano Communities Hardest
January 17, 2005
El Paso senator says impact of Mexican shoppers does not make regressive tax more palatable
Judge Tells Women Voters Income Tax Can Solve Funding Problems
January 17, 2005
The former judge who heard the original school finance court case told a Tyler audience the answer to funding woes is a personal income tax.
To fix school funding, first go local
January 16, 2005
As legislators try to figure out how to provide funding for public education, what can they do about poor leadership on local school boards that waste dollars that should go to educating students?
Health Care's Unlikely Surgeon
January 16, 2005
Even in electoral exile, Newt Gingrich has the political power to stir things up with a single provocative remark.
U.S. Praises Program in City for Children With Asthma
January 14, 2005
An ambitious program to treat childhood asthma in central Harlem has been successful in significantly reducing the need for emergency room visits and virtually eliminating overnight hospital stays for sick children.
Senators back broad plan for schools
January 13, 2005
The knotty effort to fix school finance got a jump start in the Texas Senate on Wednesday.
Senator Shapleigh’s bills addressing the uninsured, 79th Session
January 11, 2005
Senator Shapleigh will be presenting bills addressing the uninsured during this 79th Legislative Session.
Texas may have $400 million surplus
January 11, 2005
News from Strayhorn pleases state legislators
79th Legislature
January 9, 2005
GOP's unified front cracking, analysts say Republican leaders take different tacks on how to deal with cash shortage, agencies in trouble.
Texas AG says TCEQ can't change El Paso lead cleanup levels
January 8, 2005
A proposal by federal and state environmental agencies that would allow more lead to be left in soils of El Paso would violate state regulations.
NAID Winter Conference
January 7, 2005
NAID offers expertise, tools and support to communities looking to make an active military installation more valuable in preparation for BRAC.
IT PAYS TO STAY
January 6, 2005
In the late nineties, the city of Toledo, Ohio, faced a crisis.
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