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In The News – July 2010
Filed Under CLC In The News
ALCOHOL | ADDICTION
- Lawmakers Look for Ways to Prevent DWI
- Overhaul of DWI laws may be coming | Senators consider scrapping surcharges and adding treatment programs.
- State Sen. Florence Shapiro Leads Fight Against K2
BUDGET
CHILDREN
CHURCH/STATE
- Liberty and Justice: Churches, ministries and employment law
- National Day of Prayer is back in court, thanks to Greg Abbott and other attorneys general
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- Lawmakers might scrap or revamp state jail system
- Cuts That Cost | Painful cuts to programs that are keeping kids out of Texas Youth Commission jails.
- Texas judge to hold hearing on death penalty law
EDUCATION
- Projecting Success of Failing Students Often Wrong
- Texas Baptists’ Hispanic Education Initiative making tangible progress
ENVIRONMENT
- Environmental Regulators Split, and Politicians Pounce
- EPA overturns 16-year-old Texas permit program
- EPA: State’s Pollution Permits Don’t Meet Federal Law
- How Tighter EPA Rules Will Affect Texas
- Texas proposes changes to air-permitting program
- TribBlog: New EPA Rules Could Put More Cities Over Pollution Limits
- Obama speech from Oval Office urges action on clean energy bill
GAMBLING
- Boring Games Result in Texas Lotto Drop
- Will state lottery pose obstacle?
- Competition hot for state lottery contract | Winning bidder could earn up to $100 million a year.
- Budget crisis could help boost gambling
- Can Casino Gambling Save State Budgets from Ruin?
- Gambling advocates bet they can relieve state budget woes.
- Democrats ask tough questions at gambling forum
- Tribe, others laud gambling benefits | Legislators listen to arguments for expanding gaming venues
- Gambling Interests Push Lawmakers to Allow Casinos
- Gambling legalization going slowly
- Slot machine proponents address lawmakers | KLBJ 590
- Slot proponents address Texas lawmakers | Reporter News, Abilene, TX
- Slot machine proponents address Texas lawmakers | Bloomberg BusinessWeek
- Slot Machine Proponents Address Lawmakers | My Fox Houston, TX
- Slot Proponents Make A Pitch To Texas Lawmakers | KWTX
- The push for gambling, and the pushback
- Gambling expansion backers urge Texas lawmakers to allow slots at tracks, Indian reservations | The Republic Columbus, Indiana
- Gambling expansion backers urge Texas lawmakers to allow slots at tracks, Indian reservations | San Francisco Examiner
- Proponents argue for full-fledged casinos in Texas
- Gambling Promoters Try Their Chances in Texas
- Manor Downs on its last legs | Texas’ racing industry is faltering badly, supporters say.
- New push for slots at tracks in Texas
- On the radar in Texas: one-armed bandits and a sure thing
- Pattern shows first casinos are rarely last
- Race officials laud slot machines
- Supporters push for expanded gambling in Texas
- Texas horse tracks say they need slot machines to survive
- Voters should get to decide fate of legalized gambling proposal
HUNGER & POVERTY
- Mission to End Hunger in Texas
- All lunch sites to open by Tuesday | SAN ANGELO, Texas
- Decatur church fuels fun with food at park
- First lady touts anti-childhood obesity initiative
- Food bank wins $10.6 million stimulus grant | Money will buy food for 114,000 people
- Hunger takes no summer vacation, report says
- Texas church fighting hunger in its area one child at a time
- Texas fined $3.96 million over food stamp errors
- Voices For America’s Children Praises Nutrition Legislation
- What to do when the local grocery closes?
IMMIGRATION
- Detention for immigrants could be less like jail
- Majority Support the DREAM Act, Poll Finds
- Obama urges action on immigration overhaul
- Obama Wins Unlikely Allies in Immigration
- Report: Immigration bill would have most impact in California, Texas | DREAM Act bill could provide legal status for some young illegal immigrants.
- Texas Trails California in Legal Immigrants
- The New ICE Age
- UFW Launches “Take Our Jobs” Initiative
PAYDAY LENDING
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