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Analysis: Hall saga begins with closed meeting, could end with a stage, spotlight

2014-05-16T14:36:05-05:00

By Ross Ramsey The Texas Tribune Originally published May 16, 2014 This episode of the Wallace Hall saga begins with state lawmakers holding a transparency meeting in private. Some groups objecting to that opacity are financed by donors they will not reveal, some of whom aim, as Hall does, to change the way things are done in higher education in Texas. And it could very well end with a stage, a spotlight and an audience for a government appointee who has been trying to bring attention to the practices of the state’s most prestigious public university. Hall, appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to [...]

Analysis: Hall saga begins with closed meeting, could end with a stage, spotlight2014-05-16T14:36:05-05:00

Perry defends regent’s records request

2014-01-13T13:32:25-06:00

By Jay Root The Texas Tribune Originally published Oct. 30, 2013 Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called the ongoing impeachment investigation into University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall “extraordinary political theater,” and said his appointee’s quest for voluminous records from the University of Texas at Austin was justified.  A legislative committee is mulling whether to draw up articles of impeachment against Hall, who has been accused of overstepping the bounds of his authority by making burdensome requests of UT-Austin staff, misrepresenting information about himself on his application to be a regent and mishandling private student information. Hall and his attorneys have strongly [...]

Perry defends regent’s records request2014-01-13T13:32:25-06:00

Testimony begins in UT regent impeachment investigation

2013-10-22T15:17:13-05:00

By Reeve Hamilton The Texas Tribune Originally published Oct. 22, 2013 After years of simmering tension, a slate of long-awaited hearings that begin Tuesday may advance the ball toward potential resolution of a yearslong feud between the University of Texas System, its flagship institution and the Legislature. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations will, for the first time, hear public testimony from witnesses regarding its ongoing investigation of Regent Wallace Hall, which may conclude with articles of impeachment being filed against him. If Hall were to be impeached, he would be the first nonelected [...]

Testimony begins in UT regent impeachment investigation2013-10-22T15:17:13-05:00
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