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Excise Tax: Not a Four-Letter Word The Texas Legislature is spending the next few months grappling with a massive budget and considering thousands of pieces of legislation. Technically, their only job is to balance our state’s multi-billion-dollar budget. (Considering thousands of pieces of legislation is “extra.”) And despite a surplus this year, many battles will be waged in Austin about where and ... Read more
A Ban on Powdered Alcohol Should Be Our Only Option Every other year when the Texas Legislature is in session, the issues we care about are examined under a unique legislative lens. We begin to track bills as they are filed; we focus on legislation we will be opposing or supporting; and we share our findings with coalitions, advocates, and supporters. One of the most important ... Read more

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Excise Tax: Not a Four-Letter Word The Texas Legislature is spending the next few months grappling with a massive budget and considering thousands of pieces of legislation. Technically, their only job is to balance our state’s multi-billion-dollar budget. (Considering thousands of pieces of legislation is “extra.”) And despite a surplus this year, many battles will be waged in Austin about where and ... Read more
A Ban on Powdered Alcohol Should Be Our Only Option Every other year when the Texas Legislature is in session, the issues we care about are examined under a unique legislative lens. We begin to track bills as they are filed; we focus on legislation we will be opposing or supporting; and we share our findings with coalitions, advocates, and supporters. One of the most important ... Read more

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Action Alert: Are you concerned about tobacco? Marijuana? Powdered Alcohol? TST’s 2016 Statewide Summit August 3-4. Issues you care about. Action Alert Join us Aug. 3-4, 2016 at TST’s Statewide Summit Dive into… Tobacco -Jennifer Cofer, MD Anderson Cancer Center, will draw on personal experience to teach coalitions how to fight for sustainable funding. -Dr. Phil Gardiner, University of California Office of the President, will speak about the triangulum between tobacco, ... Read more
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