Supreme Court Upholds National Voter Registration Act (US PIRG - The...
(Source: US PIRG - The Federation of US Public Interest Research Groups) U.S. PIRG applauds the Supreme Court's ruling today, which upheld that the National Voter Registration Act preempts the Arizona...
View ArticleWhat Abenomics tells us about the great bond market asset bubble
Abenomics is working. Or is it? Levels of indebtedness among Japanese households and companies have fallen to relatively low levels Photo: EPA By Jeremy Warner 7:45PM BST 10 Jun 2013 Comments Japan is...
View ArticleHouse OKs transportation funding, sentencing bills
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — After hours of exhausting debate on a sweeping proposal limiting abortion, the Texas House made quick work of other key bills, voting early Monday to approve funding for major...
View ArticleLetters: Pros and cons of iPads in schools
The decision by the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide its 660,000 students with tablet computers is a step in the right direction. As the head of a nonprofit funder that provides...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent plans belt-tightening, refinancing of debt
Lance Murray Digital Content Producer- Dallas Business Journal Email | LinkedIn | Twitter | Google+ French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent will focus more heavily on a handful of core...
View ArticleReport highlights 'lack of transparency' over local govt. debt
A report on local government liabilities shows a lack of transparency over debt levels, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday. China's National Audit Office released a report last week on the...
View ArticleComptroller Bemoans Senate Leaders' Failure To Act On Economic...
State Comptroller Kevin Lembo on Thursday bemoaned the failure of state leaders to vote on a bill he was...
View ArticleNorman Baker: The Tories are turning into political werewolves
I don’t wish to be discourteous but I seriously wonder if some in the party have taken leave of their senses, electorally speaking. By 2015, it will have been 23 years since the Tories last won a...
View ArticlePerry laces up budget, making nary a big change
Gov. Rick Perry on Friday gave legislative budget writers an A. He left very few scrawls in the margins of their paper. Texans trust elected officials to make needed investments to accommodate a state...
View ArticleAll Bets Are on in Texas Primary Fund-Raising
Ross Ramsey, the executive editor of The Texas Tribune, writes a regular column for the Tribune. Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization. To join the...
View ArticleLiu Open-Sources Checkbook NYC
$1 Million in Commitments from Oracle, CGI, & REI Systems Will Facilitate Rapid Adoption of NYC's Groundbreaking Financial Transparency Website NEW YORK, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers take on transportation, abortion
Gov. Rick Perry showed again Monday that he’s willing to push for better transportation in Texas, adding transportation infrastructure projects to the list of items lawmakers can consider in their...
View ArticleTexas seen last in voting
AUSTIN — If Texans abide by the mantra, “if you don't vote, don't complain,” they should be the least-complaining bunch in the nation. Texas ranked 51st in voter turnout in 2010 — behind the other...
View ArticlePerry, Dewhurst and Abbott speak on redistricting
Following every federal census, the Texas Constitution requires the Texas Legislature to draw new district boundaries for the Texas House of Representatives, Texas Senate and U.S. Congress, which the...
View ArticleMichael Wolff: I got 'fired' by Sean Combs
Story Highlights Maybe the hip-hop entrepreneur decided our interview could get diceyIt's just as likely that Steve Stoute wanted to be the lone interviewer of the cultural mogulI really just wanted...
View ArticleConnected appliances take 5.4M steps forward
Where there is a need, sooner or later the gap will be filled. In this case, the gap is Internet-connected devices and the filling is $5.4 million. by The Ayla demo kit demonstrates how a lighting...
View ArticleWeaken union transparency bill, LNP told
AN LNP dominated parliamentary committee has advised the government to water down its controversial union transparency legislation. The Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee did recommend the...
View ArticleTexans seem disengaged
A recent study from UT-Austin documenting the lackadaisical attitude toward self-governance among Texans suggests to us that politicians, parties, public schools, the media and others interested in a...
View ArticleUT/Texas Tribune Poll Shows Strong Support for ‘Rainy Day’ Funding of Water...
(Source: The University of Texas System) June 20, 2013 AUSTIN, Texas - Sixty-eight percent of registered Texas voters support spending $2 billion from the state's "Rainy Day Fund" on water...
View ArticleCOMPTROLLER LEMBO STATEMENT ON FAILURE TO ADOPT TRANSPARENCY IN ECONOMIC...
(Source: State of Connecticut) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013 Conta ct: Tara Downes 860-702-3308 Tara.Downes@po.state.ct.us COMPTROLLER LEMBO STATEMENT ON FAILURE TO ADOPT TRANSPARENCY...
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