DALLAS (AP) - If the federal health care law is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government may have to implement some provisions Texas. Gov. Rick Perry and other leaders have blasted the law, which the Supreme Court is supposed to rule on by tomorrow. The latest Census figures show that about 25 percent of Texans are uninsured. A spokeswoman for Texas Health and Human Services, responsible for the law's Medicaid expansion, says officials are prepared to implement changes if the act is upheld. Stephanie Goodman says the state already has met deadlines for some requirements.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas A&M is buying the law school at private Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth for $20 million. Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp says having one will boost Texas A&M's prestige. And, he says it will also provide the first public law school in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The University of North Texas is scheduled to open its new law school in Dallas in 2014. The agreement came together last night. Texas A&M also will sign a 40-year lease for the law school building.
DALLAS (AP) - Qualifications for the U.S. Senate is the focus of two Democratic hopefuls in a debate being taped for television. Attorney Paul Sadler, who served in the Texas House from 1991 until 2003, is sharing the stage with political unknown Grady Yarbrough, who has run previously as a Democrat and a Republican.
HOUSTON (AP) - An appeal is being considered by Texas officials after a federal appeals court upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rules on greenhouse gases. State Attorney General Greg Abbott led a legal charge from Texas against the first-ever rules designed to regulate gases considered to be prime contributors to climate change. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today backed the EPA. Abbott slammed the decision
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