The Austin Independent School District's use of federal poverty dollars to partially finance salaries of its public relations employees might be legal, but it sends the wrong message regarding the use of the money.
It's hard not to notice the mountains of milk cartons, aluminum cans, flattened cardboard and barrels of rotting food and all their associated scents sitting just outside Jeff Paine's office in an East Austin warehouse.
Under the 2010 federal health care reform law, Texas is reviewing medical insurance companies' rate increases of at least 10 percent to determine whether they are justified, but even if reviewers find a problem, they have no way of heading it off or even letting the public know about it.
When Christopher Chamness entered the third grade last year, he began to get stomach aches before school. His mother, Edy, said the fire had gone out of a child who she said had previously gone joyfully to his classes.
In the tumultuous, emotionally charged rift — and later, reunion — between a renowned breast cancer prevention group and the nation's largest family-planning and abortion provider, all roads lead to Texas.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
