UT Arlington would lose $10.2 million under state budget
Fort Worth Star Telegram - - Jun 16, 2011
Lawmakers have recommended $21.7 billion to be allocated for Texas higher education in the next two years, but, as they continue working on the budget in the special session called by Gov. Rick Perry, some totals may be adjusted. "In the long run, ...
Roundup: House Approves Lower Pay, Furloughs For Teachers
KERA - Jun 16, 2011
DALLAS, TX (KERA) - School districts will be able to pay public school teachers less and furlough them without pay under a bill passed by the House. The measure also allows the education commissioner to consider budget cuts in allowing larger class ...
University of Washington to hike tuition following steep budget cuts
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog) - - Jun 16, 2011
In Texas, college tuition has risen by more than 70 percent since it was deregulated during a budget crisis in 2003. Those increases have prompted Gov. Rick Perry to ask college administrators to figure out a way to provide a college ...
Few state voters would support Perry for president
KVUE - Jun 16, 2011
by AP AP AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A poll by the Texas Lyceum has found that 9 percent of likely Republican voters would choose GOP Gov. Rick Perry for president. Results released Thursday from the non-partisan group show that 54 percent of likely voters ...
Poll finds few Texas voters would support Perry for president
KOIN Local 6 - Jun 16, 2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) gestures as he speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill March 7, 2006 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson, Getty Images) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A poll by the Texas Lyceum has found that 9 ...
Tornado clean up strains Missouri budget
CNN - - Jun 16, 2011
Texas, which has spent at least $110 million since late last year fighting more than 11000 fires, is hoping the federal government will pick up a majority of the tab. Governor Rick Perry is appealing the fed's denial of the Lone Star State's request to ...
Tornado clean up strains Missouri budget
CNNMoney - - Jun 16, 2011
Texas, which has spent at least $110 million since late last year fighting more than 11000 fires, is hoping the federal government will pick up a majority of the tab. Governor Rick Perry is appealing the fed's denial of the Lone Star State's request to ...
San Antonio teachers, administrators watch the budget ax fall
San Antonio Current - - Jun 14, 2011
On May 31, Governor Rick Perry called the Texas State Lege in for a 30-day special session to pass bills that will legalize $4 billion in education cuts. The state's Rainy Day Fund, with almost $6.5 billion available for emergency use, ...
Educators fear cuts deep, lasting
Abilene Reporter-News - - Jun 13, 2011
Texas ranks 44th out of 50 states in per-student spending, which ranges from $3000 to $13000 a year. Although administrators in some districts haven't laid off employees, many are just now seeing what effects the budget cuts would have on their schools ...
Educators: Texas Schools will Suffer Long Term Impacts from Cuts
MyFox Dallas - Jun 12, 2011
Governor Rick Perry sent lawmakers back to the drawing board last month after a Democratic filibuster killed school finance legislation on the last day of the session. The legislators are expected to get back to work this week. ...
Texas parks, libraries, arts, historical sites facing deep budget cuts
Fort Worth Star Telegram - - Jun 10, 2011
Rick Perry proposed suspending arts funding for two years. Perry also recommended shuttering the Historical Commission, which administers 20 state historic sites, heritage travel programs and the nationally recognized Texas Historic Courthouse ...
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who earlier this year proposed cuts to government spending, including spending on education and Medicare, in order to balance the national budget, may have had more than the public good on his mind when he presented a plan that would cut spending while also maintaining tax subsidies for oil, mining, and energy industries. According to the congressman’s mandatory financial disclosure report to Congress, Ryan and his wife own stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to energy companies that benefit from the tax subsidies Ryan advocated.
Ryan’s father-in-law runs the companies that are currently leasing land for mining and drilling to Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK), Devon (NYSE:DVN), XTO Energy, and a subsidiary of ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM). Ryan’s stake in these companies immediately poses a conflict of interest, especially when Ryan is lining his pockets with big oil money while expecting senior citizens, children, and the disabled to endure cuts to already underfunded programs.
Of course, Ryan’s office says he hadn’t even considered his own interests when drawing up the budget plan, overlooking the $117,000 the properties earned him and his wife just last year, as well as the $60,000 from the year before that. According to Ryan’s financial disclosure, he has assets worth somewhere between $590,000 and $2.5 million, and he owns minority stakes in four of his wife’s family companies, including Ava O Limited Company, which holds mining and mineral rights, and Little Land Company, which is an oil and gas corporation. While Ryan only has a 0.8% stake in Little Land Company, it is still one of his most valuable assets, generating nearly $50,000 last year.
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