RECENT COVERAGE ON TYC
- Report from conservator Jay Kimbrough
- Audio slideshow: Life at the TYC center in Marlin
- Video: 16-hour structured day
- 04-03-08 Youth commission could face closure, radical change, lawmakers say
- 02-28-08 Youth Commission to close Sheffield Boot Camp
- 02-11-08 Texas Youth Commission executive director quits
- 02-07-08 Acting youth agency director: I'm not up for permanent job
- 01-11-08 TYC forces out advocate for pepper spray
- 10-06-07 Questions linger about West Texas youth prison closure
- 10-05-07 SWAT-like inspections of juvenile facilities ordered
- 10-03-07 Closed youth facility had passed recent inspections
- 06-11-07 TYC facilities are dangerous for guards and residents alike
- 06-11-07 Scandal and reform: A familiar cycle in agencies that deal with juvenile delinquents
- 06-11-07 Mentally ill youths left in lockups
- 06-11-07 TYC overhaul raises high hopes but faces cold reality
- 05-26-07 Capitol Roundup
- 05-24-07 TYC to adjust hiring policy
- 05-23-07 Texas Youth Commission moves to single-sex facilities
- 05-23-07 Capitol Roundup
- 05-17-07 Youth jail system failing probationers, report says
- 05-11-07 Second Youth Commission whistleblower terminated
- 05-11-07 Second Youth Commission whistleblower terminated
- 05-11-07 Texas Youth Commission names ombudsman
- 05-10-07 Former Texas Youth Commission guard indicted
- 05-08-07 Early primaries get closer
- 05-08-07 Open records key to success of Youth Commission overhaul, supporters say
- 05-08-07 House passes TYC bill
- 05-06-07 Judge says reforms worked for a while
- 05-06-07 Accused administrator could have been sidetracked much earlier
- 05-05-07 Highlights of agency's history
- 05-05-07 Texas Youth Commission's culture resists change
- 05-04-07 Youth Commission bill passes out of House committee
- 05-01-07 Youth Commission fires another official
- 04-26-07 TYC employee arrested for sex with inmate
- 04-19-07 Senate approves South Texan's measure to overhaul Youth Commission
- 04-19-07 Firing of felons from Youth Commission resumes
- 04-17-07 Videotape surfaces that might have helped TYC sexual abuse case
- 04-17-07 Bills to fix Youth Commission seek to keep history from repeating
- 04-10-07 Lawmakers debate which convictions warrant sentences to the Youth Commission
- 04-10-07 Two former TYC officials indicted
- 04-07-07 Number of incarcerated kids to be freed now 473
- 04-05-07 Twelve scheduled for release were already gone from Youth Commission facility
- 04-04-07 After the scandal hit
- 04-04-07 Many district attorneys oppose TYC releases
- 04-03-07 West Texas county attorney readies petition to force out D.A.
- 04-03-07 Youth Commission to free more than 550 teens who have completed sentences
- 03-31-07 Some teen inmates could be released soon
- 03-30-07 80TH LEGISLATURE
- 03-29-07 Governor appoints conservator
- 03-26-07 House panel votes for outside Youth Commission manager
- 03-24-07 Review Youth Commission cases, special master says
- 03-23-07 Youth Commission superintendent arrested
- 03-22-07 Governor's aide received detailed reports alleging sex scandal
- 03-20-07 Perry's office knew abuse wasn't being prosecuted
- 03-17-07 Youth Commission board approves overhaul plan, transfers power
- 03-17-07 West Texas State School could close
- 03-16-07 Youth Commission shake-up plan expected today
- 03-15-07 Youth Commission guard arrested on assault charge
- 03-15-07 TYC board agrees to resign
- 03-14-07 Youth Commission whistle-blower has assault record
- 03-14-07 Texas Youth Commission board to quit
- 03-14-07 Senators vote to fire TYC board
- 03-14-07 Governor's office trying to appoint new youth czar
- 03-14-07 Riot breaks out at juvenile lockup
- 03-14-07 Senate committee votes to fire TYC board
- 03-13-07 TYC says goodbye to whistle-blower
- 03-13-07 TYC did not give up enough information to authorities
- 03-13-07 Two teens escaped TYC facility, arrested near border
- 03-09-07 Legislators said they have no confidence in TYC board
- 03-03-07 Governor appoints a special master over TYC
- 03-01-07 Senators vote to put TYC under a conservatorship
- 02-27-07 Senators suggest new management of TYC
- 01-04-07 Lawmakers consider converting two youth prisons to ones for adults
RECENT COVERAGE ON HPV
- 04.24.07: Senate passes bill banning HPV vaccine mandate
- 04.11.07: HPV bills move forward in Senate
- 03.14.07: House rebuts Perry order on cancer vaccine
- 03.13.07: Abbott: Perry's HPV mandate does not carry the weight of law, senator says
- 02.26.07: Mass. would offer cancer vaccine free
- 02.23.07: Perry surprised by HPV backlash
- 02.22.07: Perry's staff discussed vaccine on day Merck donated to campaign
- 02.21.07: Timeline of events involving the HPV vaccine in Texas
- 02.21.07: House committee passes bill to rescind mandate for HPV vaccine
- 02.20.07: House committee on HPV adjourns without voting
- 02.20.07: Cervical cancer victim tells her story
- 02.20.07: House panel hears testimony on HPV vaccine
- 02.19.07: What's the story on HPV?
- 02.19.07: Perry reviews his family's cancer battles
- 02.17.07: HPV vaccination debate broadens
- 02.15.07: Governor defends HPV decision
- 02.13.07: Lawmaker presses ahead with bill on HPV vaccine
- 02.10.07: Senator plans to grill health official on HPV vaccine
- 02.08.07: Lawyers: Perry had no authority to order vaccinations
- 02.06.07: Johnson: Make HPV vaccine affordable and accessible
- 02.06.07: Editorial: Perry's power play aside, ordering HPV vaccine is right thing to do
- 02.06.07: Perry's HPV vaccine order draws backlash from GOP
- 02.03.07: Governor requires HPV vaccine for sixth-grade girls
RECENT STORIES
- Ruling: Bible course not mandated but instruction is
- Lawmakers may face court right before elections
- Party taking risks to unite Democrats
- DeLay might be cleared of charges
- Democratic National Convention highlights
- Texas Democrats have high hopes, but...
- Let governments buy annuities, says lawmaker who sells them
- Panel wants fined to pay fines
- Patterson chooses hunting over GOP convention
- Texans saved with 2006 school tax change - really
- Selby: Cornyn grandstanding on gas prices?
- Legislator floats idea to help cover rising retiree benefit costs
- Consultants finding top issue at the pumps - and in the polls
- Keel issues preemptive response
- Texans may have to register as lobbyists to spend money on speaker's race
- U.S. agency won't cut ethanol in gas, despite Perry's request
- Innovation key for Texas to compete for business
- Selby: Watch for tort reform group this fall
- Libertarians meet with speaker's staff
- Senators keep funds in family
- Noriega breaks (in) the Internet
- Texas offers custom license plates online
- Obama doesn't commit to Belton appearance
- Perry soon to Webcast press conferences, aide says
- 'Epic Texan' helped GOP, women reach new heights
- Perry spokesman a bulldog for governor who doesn't cultivate reporters
- Libertarians want to be kingmakers in legislative races
- Obama campaign strives to unify Texas Democrats
- State cancels interview on sect raid
- Cisneros says he's out to pasture
- Nader prepares to campaign in Austin
- Activist blogger's bio similar to Obama's
- Small companies upset by state plan to single-source office supplies
- Sidelined by insurance law changes, consumer lawyer faces pink slip
- $10,000-a-day-study will get free review
- Mansion restoration a (first) family effort
- Conservatives playing catch-up to liberals on Web utilization
- Perry lays out Texas energy vision
- Selby: Plan to bring Netroots to Austin hatched over Chicago pizza
- Anita Perry fields $10,000 to launch private fund to restore landmark
- Lawmakers criticize plan to expand troubled public assistance system
- Cornyn still far ahead of Noriega in campaign cash
- Many Texas Dems oppose caucus system in survey
- Texas government Spend-o-Meter goes online
- DPS director announces departure
- Staff shakeup at education agency's office of inspector general
- Selby: Will Perry play it safe on secretary of state pick?
- Chris Bell for (state) Senate?
- And you thought Kinky was a non-traditional candidate
- Some political sand for your 4th of July beach trip
- Lawmaker wants to make couples wait 2 years for divorce
- Houston mayor sounds primed for statewide run
- For cancer panel members, the work is personal
- Texas land commissioner thrives with controversy
- Obama fundraiser sets sights on Texas House races
- Still time to vote for Texas GOP slogan
- State overseer of child protection agency retiring
- Securing the Capitol: How much is needed?
- Fire's burning question: Does government work well?
- New business tax collects $4.2 billion
- Veteran West Texas lawmaker dies
- Top DPS leadership under fire
- Capitol stirring again with calls for bigger sales tax
- DPS faces new grilling by Sunset Commission
- Despite federal OK, Texas delays computer system expansion
- Outcry over button sold at GOP convention
- Ethics panel works quietly to discipline public officials
- Lawmakers, advocates urge Dewhurst to make appointments to cancer panel
- Was state GOP confab the calm before 2010 storm?
- Austin school district fighting to withhold background check details
- Will Dillon quit while he's ahead?
- Craddick challenger relying on ticket-splitters
- Private schools could get public money for helping dropouts
- Texas secretary of state resigns
- ACLU: TYC abuses girls in solitary confinement
- Historical assessment begins at charred Governor's Mansion
- CPS: Most sect children did not return to ranch
- Watson wows Democratic faithful
- Ethics panel: Pols must disclose investment totals
- Democrats' message is clear: Time to unite
- Fewer lottery dollars for public schools?
- Higher ed board in sticky situation
- Obama-Clinton divide worries some Austin-area delegates
- Texas Democrats may be a footnote this weekend
- State closes part of W. Texas prison because of guard shortage
- Davis, Opiela are young Texans taking charge in politics
- Perry plans to talk up Texas in Paris and Stockholm, his office says
- Cuba's close, by a Texas mile
- Judge declines to order UT to reconsider 2 white applicants
- Is sect's West Texas ranch one household?
- Texas considers regional prison release plan
- Dear Barack: Here's the feedback your campaign requested
- State: Sect families would flee if children returned
- Perry to meet with other border governors, Calderón in Mexico
- Green politics can be tricky for Rep. McCaul
- Lawmakers pay wives with campaign donations
- Perry's in for 2010, but Hutchison, Dewhurst yet to play cards
- Who says tax policy can't be fun?
- D.A.: Conviction in Ashley's Law case can't stand
RECENT MULTIMEDIA
- Craddick's reasoning, 05.27.07 | Opposing view, 05.27.07 (pdfs)
- Audio: State Rep. Byron Cook calls for a new speaker, 05.21.07
- Audio: State Rep. Jim Keffer discusses run for speaker, 05.15.07
- Audio: Speaker Tom Craddick responds to Keffer's decision, 05.15.07
- Keffer's announcement, 05.15.07
- Audio slideshow: Life at the TYC center in Marlin, 04.29.07
- Video: 16-hour day in TYC, 04.29.07
- Video: Mack Brown, Kevin Durant, other Longhorns at the Capitol, 04.16.07
- Audio: Reporter Jason Embry on proposed Senate budget, 4.11.07
- Grand jury indictment against TYC employees, 4.11.07
- Photos: Inside the speaker's apartment, 3.25.07
- Photos: Residents speak out at Senate toll road hearing
- Audio: Gov. Perry makes a YouTube confession
- Audio: Perry reviews his family's cancer battles
- Audio: Perry expresses his passion for curing cancer
- Audio: Perry speaks of ethics watchdog Tom 'Smitty' Smith and lobbyist Mike Toomey
- Audio: Sen. Jeff Wentworth proposes a commuter rail between Georgetown and San Antonio
- Audio slideshow: Performing freedom on Lincoln's birthday
- Audio: Rep. Robby Cook on Central Texas growth, infrastructure needs
- Audio: Rep. Eddie Rodriguez on home loans, property taxes
- Photos: State of State Address
- Text of Gov. Perry's State of State Address
- Audio: Rep. Valinda Bolton discusses local issues
- Audio: Interview of House Speaker Tom Craddick
- Letter from Sen. Jane Nelson to Attorney General Greg Abbott about HPV vaccine order
- Audio: W. Gardner Selby interviews Judge Scott McCown about Perry's HPV vaccine order
- Audio: Rep. Dawnna Dukes discusses reform agenda
- Audio: Perry, Leavitt urge Medicaid reforms
- Audio: Rep. Donna Howard talks about the state nursing shortage
- Audio: Rep. Elliott Naishtat on 80th Legislature
- Audio: Rep. Mike Krusee on 80th Legislature
- Photos: Perry and Dewhurst inauguration, ball
- Audio: Fred McClure performs 'God Bless America' at inauguration
- Audio: Observers sing the national anthem
- Audio: Dan Patrick press briefing, 1.10.07
- Audio: David Dewhurst press briefing, 1.10.07
- Video: Gov. Rick Perry interview, 1.11.07
- Audio: Pitts sounds confident going into speaker's election, 1.10.07
- Photos: 80th Texas Legislative session opens
- Audio: Pitts press conference, 1.04.07
