Sunset: End Texas Youth Commission

Legislative committee votes narrowly to combine juvenile probation and prison systems

"...The Texas Youth Commission has inched closer to being dissolved tonight..."

Jan. 15, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

How Texas Youth Commission Fell

The scandal engulfing the Texas Youth Commission has claimed some scalps, but will the Legislature demand more?

"...Texas Youth Commission (a happy, skippy euphemism for the juvie..."

March 1, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Youth Commission Trouble

Scandal enveloping Texas Youth Commission has only gotten worse in last week

"...The scandal enveloping the Texas Youth Commission has only gotten worse in the last..."

March 16, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Could City Living Save the Texas Youth Commission?

"..."frustrated" by the lack of meaningful reform at the Texas Youth Commission, Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, backs a complete..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Under a Texas Rock

Donald Trump got his ideas about voter fraud from where?

"...any – but the bogus claim apparently originated in Texas, as right-wing media sources disseminated a claim by Austin-based..."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Texas Activists Rattle Cages Over Shabby Jails

Austin-based inmates' rights group hopes to shine daylight on inhumane conditions and mismanagement in county jails

"...With the Texas Youth Commission scandal and a damning U.S. Justice Department..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Dems Want Stronger Immigrant Detention Oversight

More than 5,000 immigrant children in detention centers

"...help with the family separation crisis at the border. Texas Democrats with the Mexican American Legislative Caucus released a..."

July 31, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

Meet the Texas Lawmaker Working to Ban Conversion Therapy

Rep. Celia Israel on politics, queerness, and transportation

"...In 1992, Celia Israel had one thing holding her..."

April 2, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

1997 Texas Legislature Press Bills

"...Expands the amount of public information available from the Texas Health Care Information Council, as a pro-consumer measure. HB1812:..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Column

More Tragedy in West Texas

While the Legislature starts to tackle the systemic problems at TYC, critical failings at the Department of Aging and Disability Services are new being exposed.

"...words “this is nothing like what happened at the Texas Youth Commission,” Lege watchers should strap in for tragedy...."

April 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Step One: Create an LGBTQ Commission

It takes a village to forge a better quality of life for everybody

"...announced plans to create an LGBTQ Quality of Life Commission during October’s Hate Crime Summit, the first precursory meeting..."

Jan. 19, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Waltz Across Texas

San Antonio rock & roll posters and Central Texas dance halls – preserve them.

"...past? That's one goal of our sister city's South Texas Popular Culture Center, which itself was a gamble. Would..."

April 6, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Faster Than Sound: Bevis M. Griffin Teaches Austin Youth the Evolution of the Blues

School of Rock students play two events this weekend, and Stubb's sells to C3 and Live Nation

"...of color. Also observing debate within the Austin Music Commission over city funding for Black artistry, Griffin sought a..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...moment captured the underlying conflict leading into the 85th Texas Legislature, it came on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan...."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...included Gilbert Shelton, who worked at the University of Texas humor magazine, Texas Ranger. In 1964 Jackson published what..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

That Fighting Spirit

Burned: Life In and Out of Texas Youth Prisons

"...became the face of all the victims at the Texas Youth Commission: The terrible beatings and sexual abuse he..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Scratch That: Lege Ends Lottery, Then Changes Mind

House avoids $2 billion school funding hole by saving scratch cards

"...be a prosaic procedural measure: the reauthorization of the Texas Lottery Commission. Yet, somehow, this morning the Texas House..."

April 23, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Youth, Justice, and Money

"...state Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn has recommended combining the Texas Youth Commission -- the institutional arm of the state's..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

TYC Head Count

Who has quit and who has been pushed at TYC?

"...As the scandal enveloping the Texas Youth Commission spirals on, it may be time to..."

March 29, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Sunset Shuffle

Legislature moves the massive Health and Human Services review back two years

"...whole bunch of agencies, including some big guns like Texas Department of Insurance and the Texas Department of Public..."

May 31, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

TYC, Now TRCC Sees Another Dawn

Home-builder regulators become builder licensers, ignoring Sunset Commission recommendations

"...global climate change doubter Dr. Bryan Shaw to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Sen. Rodney Ellis asked very..."

May 7, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

What TYC Security?

Perry appointee bounced from youth prisons job after two months

"...appointees don't always have the best track record, but Texas Youth Commission Independent Ombudsman Catherine Evans may have set..."

Dec. 1, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Deals to Deal With TYC

The last negotiations over reforming TYC have been completed: will they mean an accountable management?

"...last big hurdle in the administrative realignment of the Texas Youth Commission has been overcome in the debate over..."

May 21, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Taking Back the House

Texas Democrats say this could be their November

"...Five seats. That's what it would take for the Texas Democratic Party to take back the Texas House of..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

‘Against the Grain’ of Justice

Committee hears testimony on treatment of young offenders

"...Since 1918, Texas law has required that every 17-year-old charged with a..."

March 25, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Governor on the Floor

Perry visits House and discusses State School, TYC prosecutions

"...revelation of who is the most powerful man in Texas. As Perry attempted an impromptu press gaggle at the..."

May 12, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Coleman: Perry Slow on State Schools

Legislative Study Group chair asks why governor has left fixing state residential facilities to legislature

"...While Coleman said he is "glad that the Governor..."

Feb. 5, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Jeff Wentworth's Summer Tour

San Antonio senator holding Jurisprudence committee meetings around state before next session

"...the home of the Evins Regional Juvenile Center, the Texas Youth Commission facility that was at the heart of..."

May 21, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Budget: Signed, Sealed, Deliverable

Texas House passed SB 1 142-2, now it heads to the governor

"...million in pre-K grants up, plus the provision of Texas grants for an extra 35,000 students. Similarly, Rep. John..."

May 29, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

An End to TYC's Problems ... and to TYC?

The Sunset Advisory Commission recommends drastic action to remedy the problems plaguing the Texas Youth Commission: dissolve the agency

"...School, run by the state's juvenile prison system, the Texas Youth Commission...."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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