State Budget Deal Adds Money For Schools, Water-What About Roads?
The two-year state budget deal that appears to be coming together in Austin would restore $3.93 billion of the $5.4 billion in public education money cut last session. It would also take $2 billion in Rainy Day savings money to create a loan fund to build water projects. It’s unclear whether another proposed loan fund of up to $2.7 billion to build new roads will be part of the new budget.
Child Dies After Being Left In Car At Dallas School
Grief counselors will be on campus at Guzick Elementary in Pleasant Grove on Monday after a child was found left in a car in the school parking lot Friday afternoon.
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Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers
The Model S from electric car manufacturer Tesla has been named Motor Trend Car of the Year. But the company's business model is under attack by a formidable foe: the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington.
In El Salvador, a Reminder of the Importance of Public Media
Guest blogger Bart Weiss writes that a trip to the Central American country for the annual Input Conference was a reminder of the role a free press serves.
CURRENTLY ON THINK:
- Humanism Among the Primates
Can the way primates interact explain the human capacity for empathy and community?
- The New Domesticity
Why are many young adults embracing slower-paced and more home-centric lifestyles and what does the trend say about our changing society?
CURRENTLY ON CEO:
- John Mackey, Whole Foods Market
On the April episode of KERA’s CEO, Whole Foods Market’s John Mackey talks about early challenges the company faced reaching a skeptical public, along with the company’s future and his call for a new age of corporate leadership.
