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Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...Williamson Co. judges might stand trial for allegedly depriving indigent defendants of their right to counsel. In an Oct...."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

Planned Parenthood Slashed Again

While patients lose health care, the state dumps money on unprepared clinics

"...provide a host of health services to uninsured and/or indigent clients, in addition to family-planning services. But Rider 81..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...legal representation in county courts, even when they are indigent and unable to hire an attorney. "The Williamson County..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...awarded just over $11,000 to the Task Force on Indigent Defense to fund the creation of a computer reporting..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

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"...reasons: with class B's, counties must pay incarceration and indigent defense costs, while class C's generate fines and revenue,..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Column

The Bigger Story on Pot

"...reasons: with class B's, counties must pay incarceration and indigent defense costs, while class C's generate fines and revenue,..."

Jan. 10, 2006 Postmarks

In Memoriam

The Austin State Hospital Cemetery is the long final home for thousands

"...are occupied by the bones of somebody who died indigent and whose family didn't claim him or her for..."

May 27, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Austin's Mexican-American community – gentrification, the Holly Power Plant, indigent health care, racism, and development in Plaza Saltillo, according..."

May 27, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...death system, with particular focus on the representation of indigent defendants and the way capital cases are investigated and..."

April 8, 2005 News Column

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Putting the brakes on the Star+Plus HMO

"...been charged with implementing the most cost-effective solution to indigent care, the harm caused to public hospitals may far..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Point Austin: A Blueprint for Mental Health

The Mayor's Task Force issues its report, but the real work is yet to come

"...several years forward, when it is imagined that Austin's indigent mentally ill might have access to "sufficient, safe, affordable,..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Texas Top 10s

The Chronicle music staff picks its Texas Top 10

"...9) Boxcar Satan, Upstanding and Indigent (DogFingers)..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Frequent Fliers

Once they enter the mental health care system, people tend to return

"...Some accuse community centers of treating Medicaid-qualified consumers before indigent ones, since Medicaid reimbursements recoup at least some of..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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"...certainly no exception. Beyond short-term benefits such as providing indigent and charity care, many former AMEP residents choose to..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column

Stick Stuck on His Study

The state rep still wants a 'needs assessment' from the hospital district

"...person or entity "to examine the necessity of increased indigent, pediatric, trauma and mental health care in the geographic..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin Already Benefits From Teaching Hospitals

"...certainly no exception. Beyond short-term benefits such as providing indigent and charity care, many former AMEP residents choose to..."

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"...care (especially specialty care). The largest portion of urban indigent care is traditionally provided for under the support mechanisms..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Column

Medical Campus Would Benefit Austin

"...care (especially specialty care). The largest portion of urban indigent care is traditionally provided for under the support mechanisms..."

Sept. 14, 2004 Postmarks

The Operation Was Successful ...

The jury's still out on "tort reform" – but the courthouse door is closed

"...of that money in new doctors, better services, even indigent care. What he did not say is that the..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Column by Michael King

The Future Is Now

Local fiscal policy enters its Cold War era

"...number of capital murder cases, or the number of indigent defendants needing an attorney who are guaranteed one by..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City, County Budgets Hold the (Bottom) Line

At both City Hall and the courthouse, it's all quiet on the fiscal front

"...and safer Travis County") to the escalating cost of indigent defense, to operating the county's juvenile probation facility, to..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

About AIDS

Congress should fully fund meds program

"...both federal and state money, provide HIV/AIDS medications for indigent patients. However, neither Congress nor most state legislatures have..."

July 2, 2004 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Letters at 3AM

Americans and Iraqis are dying for Bush's pride and his hopes of re-election

"...relatively soon." Instead they found Iraq a shattered and indigent nation. Still, on July 30, "President Bush's budget director..."

April 16, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...per $100 of valuation in property taxes to cover indigent health care costs than do folks outside the city..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Travis Co. prepares to set a May 15 vote on new taxing district

"...tax-financed system to fund health care for the county's indigent and uninsured...."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Facts and Fantasies

Think globally, vote locally.

"...it), the notion that only other people are medically indigent is simply not true. (The two go hand in..."

Jan. 9, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...management of the city's legally mandated responsibilities to provide indigent care, convincing City Hall to -- more or less..."

Jan. 2, 2004 News Feature

Barbecue and Good Ol' Boys

A promotions scandal suggests the good ol' boy network is alive and well at DPS.

"...It's not "indigent defense" or "DNA profile" or even the old reliable..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Capitol Chronicle

The state gridlock persists on public school finance.

"...Texas school system will be even larger and more indigent, to hear much more of the same.Money for Something..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

How did the one-time golden boy cross over to the dark side? Dapper Dan now has four years to find out.

"...his indictment and after he'd told Sparks he was indigent -- and concluded, "I guess he has four years..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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