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Selected Sources for Reading: Books and Articles

Chapter 9: Public Policy and Administration Atkinson, Jim. “Bad Air Days.” Texas Monthly (August 2003): 52, 54-57. Air pollution from the petro-chemical plants of the Golden Triangle in southeast Texas.

Atkinson, Jim. “Curing the Colonias.” Texas Monthly (April 2001): 70, 72, 79. Health problems in impoverished settlements on the Mexican border.

Barker, Tametha D. “Top of the Class: Understanding the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Ten Percent Plan, and the Future of Higher Education in Texas.” Texas Tech Journal of Administrative Law 5 (Summer 2004): 231-254.

Barr, Rita. "Higher Education Diversity After Hopwood." Interim News. No. 77-9 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 28 June 2002): 1-6.

Beal, Ronald L. Texas Administrative Practice and Procedure. Albany, N.Y.: Lexis Publishing, updated regularly.

Beam, Justin Wayne. "Cutting the Knot: The Use of ADR in Texas Agencies." Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law 3 (Spring 2002): 125-156. Alternative dispute resolution can be used to resolve administrative disputes.

Belfiglio, Valentine. Honor, Pride, Duty: A History of the Texas State Guard. Austin: Eakin Press, 1995.

Bell, Beverly. “State Emergency Management and Homeland Security: More Changes Ahead After Hurricane Katrina.” In Book of the States, 2006 ed., 467-473. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.

Bernstein, Jake, "The Rights of a River." Texas Observer (21 June 2002): 4-7, 16-17, 28. Environmentalists make water claims on the Guadalupe River.

Bernstein, Jake. "Test Case." Texas Observer (30 August 2002): 4-7, 29, 32. About the TAAS, the TAKS, and education in Texas.

Black, William K. The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Blair, Betsy. “The Insurance Industry and Homeowners Adapt to a New Regulatory Framework.” Interim News No. 78-9 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 7 October 2004): 1-6.

Blakeslee, Nate. “Brother, Can You Spare $800 Million?” Texas Observer (8 June 2001): 3, 15. Concerning property tax abatement to lure industry to Texas and what it will cost the state treasury.

Selected Sources-1 Blakeslee, Nate. “Burying the Opposition.” Texas Observer (28 May 1999): 12–13. Why the Texas Funeral Service Commission has been at the center of a political storm.

Blakeslee, Nate. "Shell Game." Texas Observer (11 October 2002): 12-13, 29. Concerning the insurance crisis in Texas.

Blanton, Carlos Kevin. The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Brinegar, Pam. “Professional and Occupational Regulation.” In Book of the States, 2006 ed., 457-460. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.

Bryce, Robert. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2002.

Burka, Paul. “Clearing the Air.” Texas Monthly (December 2000): 9-10, 12.

Burka, Paul. “Incomplete.” Texas Monthly (October 2004): 10, 12, 14. The politics of Texas’s high-school dropout rate.

Burka, Paul. "Sinking Flagship." Texas Monthly (August 2002): 10, 11. A look at some of Texas's problems in state institutions of higher education.

Burka, Paul. “Troubled Waters.” Texas Monthly (March 2004): 8, 10, 12. Controversies over pumping and selling Texas water.

Carcieri, Martin D. “The Sixth Circuit and Grutter v. Bollinger: Diversity and Distortion.” Texas Review of Law & Politics 7 (Fall 2002): 127-152.

Cardozier, V. R. University of Texas of the Permian Basin: A History. Austin: Eakin Press, 1998. Written by a former president of UTMB, this is a first-person account of Texas academic politics and administration.

Chahin, Dinniah M. “Is the Once Mighty River Not So Mighty? How the Distribution of Water Rights and Water Planning Along the Texas Portion of the Rio Grande River Affects Future Texans.” Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law 6 (Spring 2005): 115-138.

Childs, William R. The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-twentieth Century. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005.

Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin. Pioneer Woman Educator: The Progressive Spirit of Annie Webb Blanton. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.

Cox, Mike. Stand-off in Texas: Just Call Me a Spokesman for the DPS. Austin: Eakin Press, 1998. The Texas Department of Public Safety’s chief of media relations describes his work

Selected Sources-2 with mass media people covering the shootings at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen (1991), the Branch Davidian siege near Waco (1993), and the Republic of Texas stand-off in Jeff Davis County (1997).

Dworaczyk, Kellie. Standardizing Driver's Licenses: Security, Privacy, and Other Issues. House Research Organization Focus Report No. 77-20. Austin: Texas House of Representatives, 31 May 2002.

Ennis, Michael. “Dissing Darwin.” Texas Monthly (April 2005): 64, 84, 86. Politics and science education in Texas.

Erlichman, Howard, Jr. Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Highway politics and administration.

Fitzpatrick, Brian T. "Strict Scrutiny of Facially Race-Neutral State Action and the Texas Ten Percent Plan." Baylor Law Review 53 (Spring 2001): 289-348. Argues that admitting the top 10 percent of high school graduates to the Texas state university of their choice is unconstitutional.

Flawn, Peter T. A Primer for University Presidents. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Based on the author’s experience as president of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas at Austin.

Foster, Chad. “States Prepare for Attacks on Public Schools.” State News (August 2004): 22, 24, 37.

Fox, Loren. Enron: The Rise and Fall. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Fusaro, Peter L., and Ross M. Miller. What Went Wrong at Enron? Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Gwynne, S.C. “How Good Is Your Kid’s School?” Texas Monthly (November 2002): 120-123.

Harkins, D. Chris. "The Writing on the Wall . . . and Inside It: The Recent Explosion of Toxic Mold Litigation and the Insurance Industry Response." Texas Tech Law Review 33, no. 4 (2002): 1101-1135.

Harman, Greg. “Huntsman’s Odessa Syndrome.” Texas Observer (21 September 2000): 6–10. Environmental problems and a West Texas city’s petrochemical complex.

Harman, Greg. “Rough Water Ahead.” Texas Observer (10 February 2006): 10, 11, 16-17. Struggle for water rights in West Texas.

Selected Sources-3 Hart, Patricia Kilday. “The Killing of Alydar.” Texas Monthly (June 2001): 98–103, 124–129. How the death of a famous Kentucky racehorse was related to Houston’s failed First City National Bank.

Hess, Frederick. “No Child Left Behind: Trends and Issues.” In Book of the States, 2006 ed., 474-477. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.

Holiday, Ted. “Alternatives for Expanding Texas’ Water Supplies: Desalination.” Interim News 78-8 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 20 August 2004): 1-5.

Hughes, Amy. “Are States Really Prepared?” State News (September 2004): 18-21. About emergency management and homeland security.

Imas, Karen. “Implementing No Child Left Behind.” State News (October 2004): 12-13, 26.

Jepson, Dana. Fact or Fiction: The SBOE’s Role in Textbook Adoption. Focus Report No. 77-17. Austin: Hou8se Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 22 February 2002.

Jepson, Dana. Farm and Ranch Biosecurity: Is Texas Prepared? House Research Organization Focus Report No. 77-14. Austin: Texas House of Representatives (4 December 2001): 1-6.

Johnson, Renée J., David Hedge, and Marian Currinder, “Bootstraps and Benevolence: A Comparative Test of States’ Capacity to Effect Change in Welfare Outcomes,” State and Local Government Review 36 (Spring 2004): 118-129.

Lauderdale, Michael. Reinventing State Government. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Description of how the Survey of Departmental Excellence was used by Governors White, Clements, Richards, and Bush to change the operation of state agencies.

Levin, Linda. “Texas Agencies Work Together to Promote Tourism.” Texas Town & City (April 2001): 40–41.

Lomax, Lucius. “Working the Plantation.” Texas Observer (11 June 1999): 29-31.

Mann, Dave. “Got Manure?” Texas Observer (19 July 2002): 12-13, 28-29. Expanding dairies and pollution of the Leon and Bosque rivers.

Mann, Dave. “It Pays to Pollute.” Texas Observer (23 April 2004): 4-7. On ExxonMobile’s pollution in Baytown.

Mann, Dave. “Legislative Malpractice.” Texas Observer (20 June 2003): 8-9, 20. Criticism of HB 2290, which provides for reorganization and consolidation of Texas’ state social service agencies.

Selected Sources-4 Mann, Dave. “Overrated.” Texas Observer (30 June 2006): 6-9, 16. Deregulation and higher electric power bills for consumers.

Mann, Dave. “Who You Gonna Call?” Texas Observer (21 May 2004): 6-7, 19. Questions concerning Texas’ social services.

Mann, Dave, and Lauren Reinlie. “The Agency that Bob Perry Built.” Texas Observer (4 February 2006): 10-11. About a Houston home builder and the Texas Residential Construction Commission.

Mauro, Garry. Beaches, Bureaucrats, and Big Oil. Austin: Look Away Books, 1997.

May, Michael. "The One That Got Away." Texas Observer (8 November 2002): 4-5, 16-17, 20. Pollution by the Huntsman chemical facilities in Port Arthur and Port Neches.

May, Michael. "Port Arthur Blues." Texas Observer (1 March 2002): 8-11, 1718. One man's efforts to clean up refinery pollution.

McWilliams, James. "History 101: Ignorance as Power." Texas Observer (30 August 2002): 8-9, 20. Criticism of Texas's approval process for school textbooks.

Middleton, Rusty. “What Lies Beneath?” Texas Observer (19 May 2006): 6-8, 18-19. The environmental problem of oilfield waste injection.

Nichols, Amy A. “Texas Opens for Business: An Analysis of Deregulation of the Electric Industry in Texas.” Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law 3 (Spring 2002): 179-209.

Novak, Amber. “Up in Smoke.” Texas Observer (23 May 2003): 4-7, 27, 31. Criticism of the legislative action weakening environmental protection in the 78th regular session of the Texas Legislature.

Olsson, Karen. “The View from Outside.” Texas Observer (9 November 2001): 8-9, 13. Labor- management conflict at the IBP beef processing plant in Amarillo.

Patoski, Joe Nick. “Park and Parcel.” Texas Observer (7 April 2006): 6-9, 19. Concerning the underfunded Department of Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Peña-Alfaro, Sylvia. “The Toxic Mold Terrifying Texas: Mold’s Hold on the Insurance Industry.” St. Mary’s Law Journal 31:2 (2003): 541-562.

Phillips, Travis. Electric Utility Restructuring in Texas: A Status Report. House Research Organization Focus Report No. 77-15. Austin: Texas House of Representatives, 17 December 2001.

Poole, Claire. “Mixing Oil and Politics.” Texas Monthly (March 2001): 63–64, 69–70. An environmental pollution case involving Koch Industries’ refineries in Texas.

Selected Sources-5 Prindle, David F. Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.

Purdy, R. Lawrence. “Prelude: Bakke Revisited.” Texas Review of Law & Politics 7 (Spring 2003): 313-384.

Ravitch. Diane. The Language of Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Reed, Douglas S. “Twenty-Five Years After Rodriguez: School Finance Litigation and the Impact of the New Judicial Federalism.” Law and Society 32:1 (1998): 175-220. How the decisions of state supreme courts have affected the distribution of funds for public education in Texas and seven other states since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1873 that big financing inequalities among Texas school districts did not violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

Sattley, Melissa. "Boiling Point." Texas Observer (23 November 2001): 6-11. Water problems along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sheets, Trina R. “State Emergency Management and Homeland Security: A Changing Dynamics.” In Book of the States, 2005 ed., 525-529. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2005.

Shields, Clint. "Border Crossing." Fiscal Notes (August 2002): 8-9. Truck traffic across the U.S.- Mexican border.

Sitton, Sarah C. Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1837-1997. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. A history of the Austin State Hospital.

Soika, Kelli. “HHS Reorganization: Eligibility Changes for Cash Assistance for Families. Interim News No. 78-8 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 20 August 2004): 1, 6-8.

Soika, Kelli. “HHS Reorganization: Medicaid and CHIP Policy Changes.” Interim News No. 78- 6 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 24 June 2004): 1, 7- 11.

Soika, Kelli. “Securitizing Texas’ Tobacco-Settlement Receipts.” Interim News No. 77-5 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (4 February 2002): 1- 4.

State Functions at the Texas-Mexico Border and Cross-Border Transportation. Austin: Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, January 2001.

Selected Sources-6 Staton, Suzanne, and Byron Schlomach. “Mixed Reviews.” Fiscal Notes (December 2000): 7–9. Concerning charter schools.

Swartz. Mimi. "How Enron Blew It." Texas Monthly (November 2001): 136-139, 171-172, 174- 178.

Sweany, Brian D. “The Cash Machine.” Texas Monthly (June 2001): 52, 53–54. Coach Bobby Knight’s impact on Texas Tech University.

Tyer, Brad. "Department of Ranch Management." Texas Observer (15 March 2002): 6-11, 20. A critical look at the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife's programs for protecting wildlife and providing land for recreational use.

Tyer, Brad. “Fear and Closing in Big Bend.” Texas Observer (10 May 2002): 4-7. The War on Terrorism has brought more Border Patrol activity and closing of “traditional” but illegal crossings for work and social activities.

Tyer, Brad. "Harris County Hijacking." Texas Observer (10 May 2002): 4-7 18-19. Criticism of the Greater Houston Partnership's program for air pollution research.

Wagner, Pam. “Keeping Teachers Teaching.” Fiscal Notes (April 2003): 12-13. The problem of teacher drop out.

Walsh, Jim, Frank Kemerer, and Laurie Maniotis. The Educator’s Guide to Texas School Law, 6th ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Ward, Peter M. Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Wells, Hope E. Managing Groundwater for Texas' Future Growth. House Research Organization Focus Report No. 76-21. Austin: Texas House of Representatives, 23 March 2000.

Whitmire, Mary Gay. “IT Outsourcing in the States: An Increasingly Popular and Evolving Option.” In Book of the States, 2006 ed., 454-456 (Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.

Whitson, Kathleen Krebbs. Bill Jason Priest: Community College Pioneer. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2004.

Wilder, Forrest. “Overrated.” Texas Observer (30 June 2006): 6-9, 16. Deregulation of electric power and higher rates for consumers.

Wilson, Robert, ed. Public Policy and Community: Activism and Governance in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Case studies that describe how low-income Texans have

Selected Sources-7 affected public policies concerning education finance and reform, environmental protection, local infrastructure, and indigent health care.

Wright, Brad. “Going…Going…Gone?” Fiscal Notes (April 2004): 6-7. On the coming shortage of state workers.

Wright, Bruce. “Doctors in the Valley.” Fiscal Notes (July 2003): 1-10-11. There is a shortage of physicians in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.

Wright, Bruce. "Radioactive Waste: Whose Backyard?" Fiscal Notes (September 2002): 8-9.

Zedlewski, Sheila, and Mighan Williamson. “Trends in Welfare Programs.” In Book of the States, 2006 ed., 539-544. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.

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