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So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. In texas they are not going to put a part of the revenues from oil and gas taxes toward paying for t...

Wi the help of or loc cabl partner booktv visits austin texas th weknd. Next we learneabout the texas justice syst from theuthor of bad boy. Enneth allen i oneof th mo infamous crimina in t histor of texas and certainly in austin. He almt singlehandedly broughabout one of the lgest construcon in the hstory o thefre word. Changedhe cminal Justice System becae he became e ce of what everyone thught was wrong with texas criminals. He was a serial killer who first committed murder in 16 and was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of three teenagers in the fort woth ea. 23 years laterhe as ar...

Information that is favorable to the accused because all favorable information is critically relevant to that determination. The commitment of nacdl and the foundation for criminal justice to seek reform in the area of fair disclosure is one of the many areas in which we are working to make our criminal Justice System fairer and more humane across a wide range of issues. In recent months we have worked to expand access to counsel, promote reform of the nations indigent reform system, address ethnic and Racial Disparity in the criminal Justice System, explore the impact of militarization of the...

There are few marred huge margins for white voters. Hard to win statewide, even in a state with a strong minority population. The democratic chair of the white vote was down share of the white vote was down since 2008. That is a problem for the problem. For the party. There are still a lot of white voters here. Back to your point about the specific candidate you cant take anything for granted. We want to talk about statelevel Ballot Initiatives as well as some a local elections, and measures at local levels, but i want to make sure we have time for a couple of questions right now. As far as th...

Complete. Ord is yet that is exactly what we expect prosecutors to do in applying materiality standards to pretrial without any sense of the perspective of the defendant. Complicating the problem further, is the prosecutors dual role. Prosecutor is a minister of justice, but importantly a advocater is also an with the skills, the training and ability to effectively winecute cases and convictions. What is inherently difficult thet the prosecutor making materiality decision is that he cannot be neutral within this context. When deciding whether information is material or relevant, that is exactl...