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sacurrent.com | Sanford Nowlin |Hayden Betts |Stephen Simpson
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Wesley Barnes, 55, a Gulf War veteran, has battled chronic pain and PTSD since his exposure to sarin gas overseas. After leaving the Army in 1994, he spent years dependent on prescribed opiates. “There’s really nothing at the VA to help with pain or anxiety that isn’t addictive,” said Barnes from his home in Onalaska, about 30 miles east of Huntsville.
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tdtnews.com | Terri Langford |Stephen Simpson |Eleanor Klibanoff
The 2025 Texas Legislature proved to be a session of recalibration, where health care regulations were either tightened or loosened and attempts to delve further into some policy areas were left hanging until the next session. kAm%96 A2DE EH@ =68:D=2E:G6 D6DD:@?D D2H >@C6 D6:D>:4 D9:7EDi 2 ?62C\E@E2= 32? @? 23@CE:@?[ 2 >2DD:G6 6IA2?D:@?
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krgv.com | Terri Langford |Stephen Simpson |Eleanor Klibanoff
Major budget items and agency changesSeveral budget items involving health care and services for Texans were also approved. Among them were an extra $100 million to fund child care scholarships to low income families on a waitlist for child care. Nearly 95,000 Texas children are on a waitlist for child care scholarships at a time when facilities are closing and the cost of child care in Texas is making it difficult for working parents to make ends meet.
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2 weeks ago | 
kxii.com | Terri Langford |Stephen Simpson |Eleanor Klibanoff
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE - The 2025 Texas Legislature proved to be a session of recalibration, where health care regulations were either tightened or loosened and attempts to delve further into some policy areas were left hanging until the next session.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
nbcdfw.com | Stephen Simpson
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into Superior HealthPlan, a Medicaid insurance provider in the state.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
blacknewsandviews.com | Melanie Eversley |Stephen Simpson
Texas is poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic, public health experts say was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn’t start vaccinating more people, according to public health experts.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
caller.com | Matthew Choi |Stephen Simpson
WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday, waving away concerns that the move would create uncertainty for funding and civil rights protections in public education. “It's insanity that we had this massive bureaucracy at the Department of Education where we've been spending countless dollars of American money and not getting results for it,” Abbott said during an executive order signing at the White House.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
palestineherald.com | Stephen Simpson
With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn’t start vaccinating more people, according to public health experts. Measles, a highly contagious disease that was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, has made a resurgence in West Texas communities, jumping hundreds of miles to the northern border of the Panhandle and East Texas, and invading bordering states of New Mexico and Oklahoma. kAmq2D65 @?
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
seekingalpha.com | Stephen Simpson
Mar. 21, 2025 5:37 PM ET, , SummaryAlnylam Pharmaceuticals has secured FDA approval for Amvuttra in ATTR-CM, opening the door to potential revenue of over $6B. The company's strong R&D pipeline, including promising candidates like zilebesiran, supports long-term growth and will reduce its heavy near-term reliance on the TTR franchise.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
krgv.com | Matthew Choi |Stephen Simpson
"Abbott praises Trump’s efforts to eliminate Education Department at White House" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — Gov.
