UPDATED: The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a nearly $50 million land deal for the new school’s Brownsville campus.
Jody Serrano
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Pauken: There is No Divine Right of Succession
Former Texas Workforce Commissioner Tom Pauken, who is running to replace Gov. Rick Perry in 2014, says that people shouldn’t automatically anoint Attorney General Greg Abbott as the “chosen one.”
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Criminal Justice
Abbott: State Has No Obligation to Aid TWIA Financially
In an opinion issued this week, Attorney General Greg Abbott says the state is under no legal obligation to help cover any potential shortfall faced by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.
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Higher Education
Federal Loan Hikes Worry University Students
Thousands of Texas students will now have to pay 6.8 percent interest — a number that doubled virtually overnight — on any new federal direct subsidized loans after Congress failed to reach a compromise to address student loan debt.
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A Second Life for Houston’s Astrodome?
The Houston Astrodome is a ghost of its former self. Once the home of the Houston Astros and bursting with life, the dome is now covered in spiderwebs and trash. But some people are working to breathe life back into the empty shell.
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Politics
TWIA Board Agrees to Steps to Address Financial Woes
UPDATED: The board of the state’s embattled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association agreed Tuesday to take steps that it says will better prepare the agency for the 2013 hurricane season and be more efficient over the long term.