Through JUNE 30 -
.Headlines:

• Attorney writes lawmakers about some ‘turmoil’ for Mexia State School workers
  
• State's new tax on firms 'a miss'
  
• State overseer of child protection agency retiring
  
• Attorney says allegations against former Lufkin State School employee are false
  
• Man charged with injuring disabled state school resident
  
• Day-care owner charged in injury to toddler
  
• No support for child support
  
• State closes day care for day over staffing shortage
  
• Deputies come out in force against proposal to privatize the jail
  
• State's business tax raised $4.2 billion so far
  
• Projected state surplus still may not be enough
  
• Head of agency that removed children from sect retiring

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Through JUNE 23 -
.Headlines:

• Despite federal OK, Texas delays computer system expansion
• Company officials stumped over alleged foster home mixup
• Kaiser to set a new course
• ACLU alleges TYC abuses girls in solitary confinement
• Cost of raid to taxpayers could top $14 million, according to newspaper
• New tax on businesses goes into effect in Texas
• Youth injured at Mart's TYC facility
• Voting Rights Lawyers Defeat Texas' Bogus Voter Fraud Prosecutions
• Ex-state school worker gets 5 years in burn case
• CPS says most sect children did not return to ranch
• Job centers facing closure
• 8 lose jobs at Upper Rio Grande
• SER centers lose $5.1 million contract
• State gets OK to expand screening system for public assistance
• Texas job growth slows; unemployment rises
• UTMB nursing faculty troubled
• Business owners feel the first bite of expanded tax
• Comfortable Retirement a Fading Dream for Many
• State panel decides against ending prison labor contract of company that makes flatbed trailers
• Texans' tab for YFZ ranch roundup tops $14 million
• CPS actions in polygamist sect puzzle some child welfare experts

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Through JUNE 9 -
.Headlines:

• Government agencies find hands tied by shoestring
• After court decision on CPS case, Perry did the right thing by standing firm
• Texas senators grill colleges about rising tuition
• Perry defends state raid on polygamist retreat
• The state's red-headed stepchild
• At least no one died in this standoff
• Wall Street says -2 + -2 = 4 as companies claim gains from growing liabilities
• Bank Downgrades Drive Dow Lower
• Gramm-UBS Lobbyist Questions Dog McCain Campaign
• TCEQ sues to stymie Asarco records request
• State's disbanded air fleet still shuttling officials
• Employers getting $148 million in state refunds
• Tech med school in El Paso raises funds
• San Antonio health center wins 5-year, $26 million grant
• Child welfare officials under fire over failed sect raid
• UT lab expert says he was fired for finding problems
• UT-Houston names next dean
• Budget Woes

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JUNE 2008 - TSEU UPDATE

JUNE 2008 - TYC VOICE

JUNE 2008 - COPE NEWS

APRIL 2008 - DADS/MR ORGAINZER

November 2007
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